Comment on Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I checked it out. It’s not a ghost town, but I feel like there is less activity than on federated platforms. It doesnt have the critical number of people talking about stuff to be interesting and actually result in dialog.
piskertariot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It actually is a ghost town. There’s so little engagement, and even the upvote-counts seemingly aren’t obfuscated, and are super low.
There’s also already a lot of conservative trolls who will flame for “MUH SPEECH” if you suggest that they’re an annoying conservative. “Hey man, I’m just asking the questions”. In a ghost town, they appear louder.
My theory is that people just don’t want to comment anymore. We all learned our lesson. If we comment, we just feed the AI beast. I’m not offering my insights and opinions so that you can scrape them.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Alternative platforms always start with the people that aren’t welcome in the old ones - Lemmy was literally originally made as a communist safespace.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes but all outcasts are not equal. I’m happy to share a meal with communists, but I’ve got no interest wasting my time with extreme right-wingers.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
That’s very interesting. How do you think lemmy has evolved since that post?
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Maybe they just don’t have AI commenting like reddit does?