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.

  • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow, that’s a clever little algorithm. It feels like it could work better.

    Reddit’s big problem (among many) was you had to get in early on a thread to contribute. Otherwise you could be so far at the bottom you might as well have sent your reply to the bit bucket.

    • dystop@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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.