even assuming reddit can ship an “AI moderation bot” that kinda works in the upcoming week (which will be the feat of the year), quality will start going down long before it can moderate at a good enough capacity to work well.

unified is nice, but if i’ve learnt anything over the past 9-10 years as a redditor, it means you’re at the mercy of admins and power mods. And because it’s become the go-to forum, it’s gotten so much attention from stealth marketers and bots (it’s hard not to unsee such posts once you learn to identify them), and karma whores trying to get the first witty remark in so it’ll get boosted up into the first top-level comment.

I kinda like the idea of a fediverse - it’s like a bunch of forums, but connected in a way that makes it so much easier to browse and read all of them, and doesn’t have the “centralisation of power” problem reddit has.

part of it may be that reddit has become so big it’s almost like shouting into the void.

Once a post has >300 comments, the only way to have a meaningful conversation is to add to the top-level comments. And soon the top-level comments are all nested with relevant and irrelevant comments.

More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!

I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was “look how much better we are than reddit”.

Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.

with a community as big as reddit, the only way to make yourself heard is to be among the top few comments on each thread.

It gets tiring writing 10 lengthy, well thought-out replies for 10 different threads, only for 9 of them to fall off the radar and get no responses. So you get people spamming low-effort puns in order to get noticed.

When the community is small, making dozens of posts is fine! I’m slowly adding to my communities, you should too!

You lurked for 9 years without commenting? That’s dedication - I think I broke somewhere in my 3rd year of redditing lol

Is this it? New to this cross-instance thing too.

https://lemmy.world/c/theyknew

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.

I still don’t

Then Google en passant xD

I’m in the same boat - I know how to play (horsey moves in an L, bishop goes diagonally etc), but i don’t know how to play (“ah i see you used the classic Cyberpunk Windmill opener, most people respond with either the Frenchman’s Dehumidifier or the Blue Baboon but imma take inspiration from the Smith-Wesson match and try a variation of the Cardboard Cockroach”)