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I’m not sure that’s what OP wants.

The problem with images with text snippets is that they will dominate communities that allow mixed content, pushing quality stuff out of most commonly used views based on popularity metrics. At the moment I simply avoid places where that’s happening as I still like things like c/eurographicsnovels.

But yes, text content is much more likely to be unique and interesting.

People who do it won’t stop because that’s the way to get most upvotes. You’d have to stop people from upvoting them which isn’t feasible because they’re dumb. The only way to solve this is through moderation.

When my *arr home server downloads Linux distros from Piefed over Usenet we’ll know Piefed has made it.

I guess self-reinforcing loops are a feature you can’t avoid if your aim is to show popular posts. Active sort has a benefit of still being able to bring less popular content to front page, it’s just that most active are likeliest to be shown. There’s only so much you can do without resorting to algorithmic content discovery.

Yes, the biggest downside to active sort is that it’s ever changing and some people expect there to be a relatively static frontpage like on Reddit/Hackernews. One could have active sort as default and hot/top for those logged in but it also has an issue where a new user could feel catfished a bit.

Active sort tends to brings out posts with many comments which generally indicates healthy amount of discussion happening. It also hides boring posts tangentially related to politics that get lots of upvotes despite generating little discussion.

The only reason why Mastodon is free from crypto bros and other plagues is because there’s not enough people there to make that effort. Any sufficiently successful community will be attacked by marketers pretending to be genuine people. You can either stay under the radar or be ready to ruthlessly enforce rules against promo of any kind which in the end turns out to be unpopular because with a big community you get lots of people who opt for default things in life.

Been there, done that, which is why I’m here. I wonder how much worse it is with LLMs.

Not threadiverse but here are some audio communities outside of corpo social media (stolen from Aftermath):

• Audio Science Review is notorious and fairly new in the grand scheme of things, a forum that deserves its own post. They pride themselves on doing objective, scientific analysis of speakers, amplifiers and home audio equipment generally.
• Super Audio Best Friends is another audio forum that apparently has had beef with ASR’s methodology.
• Audiogon is also a well-known, good and reliable audio forum.
• If you want a forum that is just people talking about old speakers specifically, Audiokarma is the destination. Speakers have generally gotten better and more efficient over time, but old speakers have their defenders, and this forum has some fairly interesting and unique information that does not exist elsewhere. It has a sister site called Videokarma that I had no idea existed before writing this blog.
• For everything involving headphones, Head-fi’s forums are probably the best and the ones I root for the most with audiophile stuff. It’s where I found my favorite closed-back headphones. They have their own convention, Can Jam. I probably respect this forum the most.

I can browse normally now (phew!) but in Voyager pretty much everything stopped working for a time.

Sent from my Voyager

I don’t think this can work. A threadiverse community is contained by its instance and rules. A hashtag pulls everything from every instance so it’ll get unwieldy fast.

From the threadiverse point of view it would make a bit more sense to be able to follow specific microblog accounts as a way to get that content here. Microblogs (or at least Mastodon) are doing their own equivalent of that already because they can interface with threadiverse communities natively (they’re presented as groups that boost every new post & comment).