I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

  • dystop
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    2 years ago

    lemmy’s algo seems in theory to work better, but we’ll only know when the userbase here gets large enough.

    On reddit, once a thread got past 300+ comments, the only way to get any views on your comment was to post it as a nested comment in a top-level comment.

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      2 years ago

      lol, I realized the same thing and gamed that broken system more than once.

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        2 years ago

        most power users realised that, i think. and that’s what led to the pun chains.