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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  3460 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Welcome to Hubski, redditors! Tell us about yourselves.

New users have me cautiously optimistic. Between this thread and the random responses I've been getting all day from old posts, no disaffected trolls seem to have migrated here. Welcome people not motivated by sympathy for hating fat people.





vinosan  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

From the first impression of Hubski that I have, I feel like the trolls won't be comfortable in this environment. To me it feels like a more personal and "slower" (let me explain!) community. They will probably flock to voat which is already a pretty close clone of reddit (look at all the subvoats, the Top20 match reddits).

By slower I mean it's more personal and the contents of posts(?) is longer and more thought out. Most of the time even more personal. I have never read "I always like your posts xxx" or "good to see you here xxx" on reddit, except in the really small communities. Hubski might just be the aggregator that I was missing in the last years, when reddit's r/all was going downhill. I'll still have my small communities, but that's more like a forum/mailing-list than to find new interests.

Also, this September might not last that long ;)

DC-3  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I also get the same feeling from hubski. It feels like what reddit was supposed to be.

mileylols  ·  3458 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's what reddit actually was four to five years ago.

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low_ho_fosho  ·  3459 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The best part is even if they did come they could be pretty quickly filtered out by everyone.

psudo  ·  3460 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think trolls will come here, at least from reddit. They won this last bout, getting written up in several news sites and being allowed to spill out of their little hole. Additionally the lack of fake Internet points and the ability for users to self moderate makes hubski a less appealing place for your average troll.