• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Alright, how do you decide who is the “lowest common denominator” who shouldn’t get to have a say over what is being discussed?

    • MBM@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How about the people who stumble across the comm’s posts on All but aren’t subscribed? On Reddit you could also talk about the original user base from before a sub started hitting r/all but !technology@lemmy.world doesn’t really have an ‘original’ user base.

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        1 year ago

        It does sound reasonable to prioritize subscribed users when counting upvotes, to reflect the interests of that particular community.

        But I don’t think that will stop people from bringing up any news involving Twitter. The submission and initial momentum likely happens within the community itself.

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          1 year ago

          That would be cool, never thought about that. Straight up not allowing voting from All/when you’re not subbed could also be interesting as an experiment. But yeah, here plenty of people are just interested in Twitter news.

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            1 year ago

            are just interested in Twitter news.

            From the way I’m interpreting that… shouldn’t that demand for ‘just twitter news’ lead to a new community for that specifically? Like if it’s really that interesting to enough people, wouldn’t that be the better outcome?