Null User Object@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAre a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1235arrow-down19file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
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minus-squaresqgl@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 months agoMy friends set up a CMS by invite only (people we know IRL). Hundreds of us there and yet only a handful are active. People want to be where the action is (more so than where the quality is). FOMO.
minus-squarethe_wiz@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWell, look at it the other way around: Those niche places act like a filter, pretty much alike as the whole internet was about ~20 years ago. Yeah, there may be fewer people around, but those people tend to be quiet a bit more interesting.
My friends set up a CMS by invite only (people we know IRL). Hundreds of us there and yet only a handful are active.
People want to be where the action is (more so than where the quality is). FOMO.
Well, look at it the other way around:
Those niche places act like a filter, pretty much alike as the whole internet was about ~20 years ago. Yeah, there may be fewer people around, but those people tend to be quiet a bit more interesting.