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HMTg927 OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in The Quest for Better Online Communities by HMTg927
Well, you could look at it that way, but remember that a community is a filter bubble of sorts anyway. However, people who realize that would always have the option of reading the unblocked unfollowed feed. In other words, they could just read everything.
Fisuxcel wrote
Reply to Viva La Vida - Miku Cover by awdrifter
is anyone here?
z3d wrote
Reply to change site default theme by podnas
It sounds like you may have a site cookie that's attempting to load a now-defunct theme. Try clearing your browser's cache and logging in again.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by HMTg927 in The Quest for Better Online Communities by HMTg927
It might work, but then all you do is create better filter bubbles around people.
HMTg927 wrote
Reply to change site default theme by podnas
I am seeing the same thing with the Seamonkey browser.
HMTg927 OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in The Quest for Better Online Communities by HMTg927
Yes, you could follow someone who is not following you, but you could always adjust who you are following. Being limited to 150 would cause you to naturally think about whether you should remove people from your "follow" list who are perhaps not interested in following you. When you have a limited number of slots you will be more careful with them than if you have, say, 1000 slots.
awdrifter wrote (edited )
Reply to change site default theme by podnas
Yep, same issue. But u/Rambler hasn't posted since Nov 18, 2022. I think this site is pretty much abandoned.
podnas wrote
Reply to Which filesystem do you prefer to use? by Wahaha
memfs
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by HMTg927 in The Quest for Better Online Communities by HMTg927
So you could follow someone who doesn't follow you and never get a reply back?
Reddit already was a shot at this problem with all the subreddits and we see how that scaled.
Also, you need to shoot lower than Dunbar, since that includes people you socialize with in RL. (Family, work, friends)
HMTg927 OP wrote
Reply to The Quest for Better Online Communities by HMTg927
Wahaha,
I have some ideas about how to enable better communities on sites that are not small. One is to allow users to follow each other but limit the number of people each user can follow to 150 (Dunbar's number). I hope this will cause users to naturally clump together in small groups that will become their online social circle.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to The Quest for Better Online Communities by HMTg927
The problem is that a community does not scale. It's trivial to get along well with ten other people. It is utterly impossible to get along well with ten million other people.
Fisuxcel wrote
we are now at exploding-heads.com
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by smallpond in Fucking annoyed at trying to find an alternative to reddit by Timothyfatfetish
Untrue. Voat was completely unmoderated on a site level. You could post whatever you wanted and never got censored no matter what. I know since I posted a lot of things that the hivemind disagreed with. I always tend to do that, irrespective of the flavor of the hivemind of a given site.
Ramble may be an exception, since there aren't enough people posting to form a hivemind.
Voat had a mechanism to fend off spam etc. though. That was that you needed 100 updoots on your comments (not the submissions) before your account was fully fledged and if you ever went under 100 updoots in sum or even went negative you lost some privileges.
In practice this was nearly impossible as long as you were a real person participating in good faith around the site. People might tear one down with their replies, but they wouldn't downvoat one to hell.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by Zenen in A technologically advanced society is choosing to destroy itself. It's both fascinating and horrifying to watch by smallpond
I know about fungi networks, but even if they should know, we can't communicate with them.
Wahaha wrote
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by Zenen in A technologically advanced society is choosing to destroy itself. It's both fascinating and horrifying to watch by smallpond
What banner do you want to see people unifying under?
I was hoping common sense, but that ship has sailed. At this point there's only a small chance for National Socialism and a big chance for Islam. Either way it won't be so much unification as subjugation.
HMTg927 wrote
Reply to The House at the End of the World Paperback - Dead Koonz – July 18, 2023 - Book Discount by Book_discount
I have loved Dean Koontz since the 1980's, despite the fact that he uses the same formula in every book. I am glad to see he is still writing.
HMTg927 OP wrote
Reply to comment by BlueHat in I Think this is the Best Looking Forum I have Seen on the Internet by HMTg927
Thank you. Incognet does not seem to have a website. Strange.
BlueHat wrote
Not the admin, but I'll answer some of your questions.
The software behind Ramble is postmill (see this comment).
Regarding hosting, if you look at the bottom of the pages on Ramble, you may see:
Hosting by Incognet
9995Deluxe wrote
You don't say.
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r3df0x wrote
Reply to comment by takeheart in New fleet of i2pd 0.9.46 routers by DcscZx5idox
sorry for stale bump, but there is also quite a few routers by SUNY Brockport, as well as a CRT in the installer. Not sure what a state funded college would have interest in I2P for. Not sure I am going to remain on here much longer. Asked in IRC and people said it could be anyone. Hard to believe them when all the IPs go back to AS' belonging to the college.
r3df0x wrote
Reply to MuWire project is shut down by DcscZx5idox
such a shame. back to shitty torrents
awdrifter OP wrote
Reply to comment by Fisuxcel in Viva La Vida - Miku Cover by awdrifter
Yes.