I know that we NEED more content at Kbin, Lemmy and all the Fediverse in order for them to grow and substitute Reddit and other networks, but sometimes I just feel really happy that I can open my app and read almost everything that was posted in the last few hours without being suffocated by a billion of new posts.
It controls my anxiety, helps me keep up to date and even makes me want to search for new content and post/interact more.
EDIT: For example, at Instagram, there’s so much content being posted every second, that I never spend more than 5 minutes with the app open.
Yeah! I think that’s the feeling I was trying to describe: the old days of the internet, where the content really mattered and people were trying to create meaningful discussions!
@mizzyc @Rottcodd
I’ve been pretty relaxed about it, but should I be like, actually downvoting? It does feel slightly more… wrong? around here now, but I’d only been downvoting actually bad content before and it feels overly aggressive to the real humans that’ll get hit in the crossfire lol.
I haven’t been.
I don’t think downvoting is a solution. At best, it just moves the garbage lower down on the page, and since the botfarms mass upvote their own content, it likely won’t even do that. And as you say, real people get hit in the crossfire.
The solution, as I mentioned in my edit, appears to already be happening - the admins defederating from the botfarm instances, so the bulk of the garbage doesn’t show up in the first place.
I presume that over time, a fair amount of it’s going to seep in anyway, as people and corporations and governments get shills and bots in place on the more reputable instances, but it wont be the sudden deluge that’s hit over the last couple of days, and hopefully by then there will be enough other content that I can just avoid “All” and sort by “Subscribed” and get all the content I might want.