▲ 243 ▼ Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO (www.bloomberg.com) submitted 2 years ago by ardi60@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.ml 167 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah, people don’t really care about decentralisation nor federation. People want an easy experience where everyone is permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) If they really understood the phrase 'too many cooks spoil the soup', then they'd realize the advantage of smaller online communities. Reddit was at its best when it had a low count but engaged userbase, and became actively worse as it grew. I think this is because trolling and response isn't a 1 to 1 ratio. All it takes is 1 toxic person to make an entire subforum rancid and takes the effort of several mods to mitigate it. The more people you have, the more chance you will have these trolls organize, the more likely they will either overwhelm or infiltrate the mods. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I tend to agree. I think all communities have a critical mass and past that point they go downhill. I was just googling for the rat overpopulation experiment because I think it works as a great example of this and it turns out this whole concept has a term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago I think a better metaphor is fermentation. It happens naturally whenever the ingredients are brought together but in order to get a quality product you need ridiculous amounts of knowledge, process, and technology. And even a tiny bit of the wrong bacteria can ruin an entire batch, but people will still drink it and go blind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) If they really understood the phrase 'too many cooks spoil the soup', then they'd realize the advantage of smaller online communities. Reddit was at its best when it had a low count but engaged userbase, and became actively worse as it grew. I think this is because trolling and response isn't a 1 to 1 ratio. All it takes is 1 toxic person to make an entire subforum rancid and takes the effort of several mods to mitigate it. The more people you have, the more chance you will have these trolls organize, the more likely they will either overwhelm or infiltrate the mods. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I tend to agree. I think all communities have a critical mass and past that point they go downhill. I was just googling for the rat overpopulation experiment because I think it works as a great example of this and it turns out this whole concept has a term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago I think a better metaphor is fermentation. It happens naturally whenever the ingredients are brought together but in order to get a quality product you need ridiculous amounts of knowledge, process, and technology. And even a tiny bit of the wrong bacteria can ruin an entire batch, but people will still drink it and go blind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah I tend to agree. I think all communities have a critical mass and past that point they go downhill. I was just googling for the rat overpopulation experiment because I think it works as a great example of this and it turns out this whole concept has a term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago I think a better metaphor is fermentation. It happens naturally whenever the ingredients are brought together but in order to get a quality product you need ridiculous amounts of knowledge, process, and technology. And even a tiny bit of the wrong bacteria can ruin an entire batch, but people will still drink it and go blind. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago I think a better metaphor is fermentation. It happens naturally whenever the ingredients are brought together but in order to get a quality product you need ridiculous amounts of knowledge, process, and technology. And even a tiny bit of the wrong bacteria can ruin an entire batch, but people will still drink it and go blind. permalink fedilink source parent