I think Reddit structurally accelerates this process by 1) encouraging "communities" built around repeating a single specific narrative or comedic template, 2) providing the means to filter through all those iterations on the same idea and remove anything critical of the dominant thinking, complex, or challenging to the audience in any other way. 3) incentivizing individual posters to try to win that race to the bottom with a little point counter
this is where I become pedantic and ideological. personally I think the old BB-style forums had mostly the right ideas about how to design an asynchronous web message board, even if culturally they could be shitty. I think we ought to remove voting and order comments and posts strictly chronologically (and heck, why not enable more rich text features?) Reddit's design was never meant for this; it was originally just a successor to Digg and StumbleUpon and other link aggregator-type services.
That said, I understand that the Reddit lineage, not to mention the ambition to federate with other Lemmies, means these changes will never happen, so I guess the best we can do is try to be more aware of how we use this site.
I think Reddit structurally accelerates this process by 1) encouraging "communities" built around repeating a single specific narrative or comedic template, 2) providing the means to filter through all those iterations on the same idea and remove anything critical of the dominant thinking, complex, or challenging to the audience in any other way. 3) incentivizing individual posters to try to win that race to the bottom with a little point counter
How do we prevent that in our own forum?
this is where I become pedantic and ideological. personally I think the old BB-style forums had mostly the right ideas about how to design an asynchronous web message board, even if culturally they could be shitty. I think we ought to remove voting and order comments and posts strictly chronologically (and heck, why not enable more rich text features?) Reddit's design was never meant for this; it was originally just a successor to Digg and StumbleUpon and other link aggregator-type services.
That said, I understand that the Reddit lineage, not to mention the ambition to federate with other Lemmies, means these changes will never happen, so I guess the best we can do is try to be more aware of how we use this site.