MindfulMaverickMar 1

Are votes actually ruining niche communities?

https://piefed.zip/c/asklemmy/p/1165527/are-votes-actually-ruining-niche-communities

Are votes actually ruining niche communities?

Been thinking about the voting system lately and how it inevitably kills in-depth discussion in growing communities. Every sub/community follo…

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Isn’t the situation in gonewild a clear sign it’d be wise to set up two separate communities? gonewildgals and gonewildguys or something? If a community is β€œtoo broad”, niche content will always lose out. The answer is usually setting up a new community specific to that niche.

Fighting low-effort posts and memes either means setting up a meme community, more moderation on the posts or both.

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People could discuss pretty much anything in old school forums which only a handful of boards. Now we need millions of communities just because Reddit has them as well, even if there is not enough activity to support them.