theodewere

go out and plant a shrub

probably does most of the heavy lifting

i really don’t think so… again, personal experience… and i’m not sure why you would feel confident in stating the opposite…

it’s hard to quantify, but i’ve witnessed and defended against direct attacks of the typical kind that are pretty successful on reddit… the structure here is just less useful to them… discussion can carry on around their attempts to dominate a thread, and get the whole thing sort of flushed down a toilet of inane consensus… the traffic is nowhere near as high, so it’s hard to say how it will evolve…

also it seems easier here to shout down trolls, also due to the structural difference… trollish behavior can be countered here pretty effectively with real discussion, where the voting mechanism on reddit makes it difficult…

i should note i use kbin, so my experience is different from a lot of other people

don’t ever let them see your tears, it’s how they multiply

jaded from Reddit and fear I’ll have people jumping down my throat

that’s not easy to get over, but trust yourself

it’s an interesting comment, because this space (the whole fediverse i guess) still seems to be in its infancy and its users are still trying to figure out what it’s good for… the differences you call out are all relevant… specifically the comment structure is healthier here than reddit, and less susceptible to brigading and trolling… it’s going to be interesting to see how it matures…

i think it’s a more flexible and useful tool than most of the other things like it around, so i’m pretty confident the internet will find something interesting to do with it… and probably sooner rather than later with all the fluidity in online populations…

i think that’s a very reasonable prediction… furthermore, i believe it indicates that the people who try it, clearly WANT to keep using it… this is a very good quality to have in this game…

yeah shows genuine “stickiness”