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HMTg927 OP wrote

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.

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z3d wrote

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HMTg927 OP wrote

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.

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Wahaha wrote

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)

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HMTg927 OP wrote

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.

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Wahaha wrote

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.

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r3df0x wrote

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.

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