As someone who was in groundbreakers, and in the Beta: Good.
It offered literally nothing new. The only voices making comments and getting involved with the community were adgitators and provacateurs, and it quickly spiraled. They claim bots, but they had real trouble wrangling the community, and most people were lurkers, even in the groundbreakers age.
The social contract with web content is broken. People aren’t going to provide comments and content if it’s just going to be scraped by Ai and fed back to us. That leaves only those who don’t think about their words, who are most likely to share them.
As someone who was in groundbreakers, and in the Beta: Good.
It offered literally nothing new. The only voices making comments and getting involved with the community were adgitators and provacateurs, and it quickly spiraled. They claim bots, but they had real trouble wrangling the community, and most people were lurkers, even in the groundbreakers age.
The social contract with web content is broken. People aren’t going to provide comments and content if it’s just going to be scraped by Ai and fed back to us. That leaves only those who don’t think about their words, who are most likely to share them.
My niche community was doing better though on digg than here