People have to be willing to give things a try, so I think it will definitely grow. I was never a Reddit user, I tried this on a whim, just to try and have conversations with different people. The one good thing is that there are many functional apps, and you will only see things you are interested in, and when you don't, you down vote it.

But ultimately it's still the same echo chamber that all social media is, but without ads.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 41 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Don't downvote stuff just because you're not interested in it! There's no algorithm you're training, you're just being rude to people.

Downvotes should be for worthless content and people being dicks.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I run many small communities and it kills me when people from “all” downvote stuff.

If you don’t care about the topic, block the community or skip the posts

[–] thesocavault@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Correct. If you don't like the content in the community, then why be there? Just join things that interest you, no need to be a 💩

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