This is why I like the term "Windshield bias," a very common issue is talking about a space/experience someone has only experienced from behind a windshield, and getting someone to have a different experience can help cure that
"Windshield Bias" is a term I think needs to be more widely-used, because it's more of a description of the issue than an insult
I'm not saying there are no good reasons to make a community without posting, but when that's all a user has ever done, and they've done it dozens of times, I have a hard time assuming they're just trying to help the fediverse thrive.
One suggestion I saw was auto-deleting communities that are still empty after a week, incentivizing new mods to upload something, not just squat names that were popular subs in hopes of I guess having some sort of power if they pick up?
Honestly no, I was mostly subscribed to smaller subs, and only the general communities here really have a critical mass. I’m definitely interacting more with general communities, but I really miss communities around niche interests.
I have hope that they will be here with time, but for now there’s a bunch of empty communities with no posts and a mod who has never posted anything anywhere, just made a few dozen communities with the names of popular subreddits, and even many the communities that aren’t in that situation have 3-4 posts and a couple dozen subscribers
It’s a simplified stand-in for “creation or evolution?” The “hard to tell” usage of the phrase that is often used has always confused me, because it is an easy answer regardless of your worldview, but different worldviews have different ‘obvious’ answers
If you know exactly what you want and the perfect key words you can usually get it to show up on the first page as long as you’re willing to scroll. Compared to its peak of “have a vague idea and we’ll find it” it’s really sad
Usually because it was the result of part of the contract when they took the job. "Golden parachute if we ever fire you" is a reward for joining the company, it isn't decided when they are fired.
Site-wide karma is easy to game and not particularly informative. Community karma can be a good measure of how involved an account is in a specific community
The biggest problem with this is subjective metrics.
"Healthy" depends a lot on both what your needs are and the rest of your diet, there's no one-size-fits-all.
"Delicious" is even more subjective.
'Cheap' at least is fairly objective, but even so different qualities, different locations, or different seasons can change prices drastically, and that's before you get into the fact that what really matters is the more-subjective 'cheap to someone of your means.'
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