It’s shocking how few users you really need to have a great community, and how quickly it stops mattering what other platforms are doing when you have that.
Exactly. On reddit I’d probably type out this comment, see that the post is X hours old or see that there are already 5000 replies and think “meh, no one will see this anyway. Best case scenario I get an upvote or two”. But here I feel like I’m part of a conversation and actually contributing something.
One of the many strengths of federation - You get access to all the content a big community has, but the instances mean you still get the small community feeling
It’s shocking how few users you really need to have a great community, and how quickly it stops mattering what other platforms are doing when you have that.
Exactly. On reddit I’d probably type out this comment, see that the post is X hours old or see that there are already 5000 replies and think “meh, no one will see this anyway. Best case scenario I get an upvote or two”. But here I feel like I’m part of a conversation and actually contributing something.
Hear, hear
One of the many strengths of federation - You get access to all the content a big community has, but the instances mean you still get the small community feeling
Yep! Kinda surreal to see that something like this is even possible since it seems like a contradiction.