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If you're here from Reddiit, please remember to use the boost link in the post rather than the Upvote button, as the Upvote is meaningless to a user's reputation.

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[–] Alter_Id@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

100% agreed. I'd been hoping for a reddit alternative to build an adequate groundswell for quite a long time before this hullabaloo exactly because the level of discussion had degraded so severely. Pretty done with people rehashing the popular responses that they knew would get upvotes the same way they had gotten upvotes the preceding million times they'd been posted whether they were relevant to the topic of the op or not. This platform can only benefit from fostering more substantive discussions.

I don't think there's a reality where some personal tending of what shows up in our feeds isn't necessary to weed out different attitudes/conventions inherent to particular communities, but the more we can avoid a descent into similar behaviors by way of activating the reward center of the brain for frivolous posting the better.

tl;dr - If I never have to read about Brawndo in a post discussing world politics again I will be happier than I probably deserve.

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