That makes sense tho given how the FV has pretty low engagement and most of it is still good bots doing housekeeping or trying to boost exposure.
I guess I just didn’t think Reddit would collapse sooooo fast!
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HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 months ago
To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
anachronist@midwest.social 6 months ago
Yeah the fediverse has lower engagement all around because the community is a lot smaller. This is especially true in “long tail” communities. However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.
That being said, while I appreciate the chronological feed I do wish there was some way to “weigh” less active communities so that I can see their activity in my feed without them being drowned out by the busier communities. I’ve noticed that I’ve gone to communities that I’m definitely subscribed to, and seen that there were several posts that I missed because the posts were drowned out by content in busy communities like, for instance, technology@beehaw.org
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 6 months ago
There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Is that not what the scaled sort is for?