The initial wave of users onto reddit clones often include a disproportionate amount of malcontents.
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The initial wave of users onto reddit clones often include a disproportionate amount of malcontents. A lot of people who don’t play well with others, who are banned from reddit (or at least banned from lots of subreddits) usually turn up first on these reddit alternatives and disrupt the community by repeatedly showing anti-social or disruptive, attention seeking behaviour. It’s not even necessarily related to any political persuasion. This stuff can collapse budding alternatives.
The first wave of new users on reddit alternatives are, in my experience, more likely to have a lot of problem users and since the sites are so small, and usually sparsely moderated, they are much more disruptive than they would be on reddit.
From what I can tell, the Fediverse has got past that.
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The initial wave of users onto reddit clones often include a disproportionate amount of malcontents. A lot of people who don’t play well with others, who are banned from reddit (or at least banned from lots of subreddits) usually turn up first on these reddit alternatives and disrupt the community by repeatedly showing anti-social or disruptive, attention seeking behaviour. It’s not even necessarily related to any political persuasion. This stuff can collapse budding alternatives.
The first wave of new users on reddit alternatives are, in my experience, more likely to have a lot of problem users and since the sites are so small, and usually sparsely moderated, they are much more disruptive than they would be on reddit.
From what I can tell, the Fediverse has got past that.
It's a matter of numbers and community.
If you want to be a jerk, people will ignore you. If there are ten other people in the room, you can only be a jerk ten times before everyone in the room starts to ignore you.
That's the Fediverse, it's a small community and word gets around fast with people who see and notice a bad character and start blocking them, their posts, their comments and their activity.
That's the thing about numbers .... if you are a small group, word gets around quickly who the jerk is ... if you are a big community, there are more systems in place to deal with jerks
So the only way for jerks to survive ... is to build a community of jerks for themselves ... and surprisingly enough, those communities don't last very long.
