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[โ€“] misnina@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not in a specific order.

Moderation: No tolerance for the intolerant. I've dealt with power mods and been a mod myself (not on reddit, but on forum boards and a large discord) and it's a shit show, but I'd rather have a heavier hand than allow crap to seep in. When you let something go on long enough, it gets ingrained in the culture and gets harder to get rid of.

Activity: I don't need endless scrolling of content, but enough posts, or enough posts with interesting comment chains, to last a long bathroom visit when you have a bad stomach, lol.

Learn Something New: Seems like a weird one, but the things I really liked about reddit is getting down deep into the comments and someone has a weirdly specific interest or specialty that teaches me something new. If everyone is alike and thinks the same, the experiences are also too similar to be as interesting. I guess you could call this diversity, but I think people automatically assume you mean racial diversity. More than that, job and hobbies and locations and age diversity. Love seeing the 60+ people on reddit, hearing first hand stories of a time ago is really nice (though sometimes terrifying), and current social media is very younger at the moment. I'm only 31 but it's getting a little tiring starting to be the oldest one in my social groups just because I'm a 'content creator' and the audience that goes with that.