It became the post of the year on Reddit that year. I bump into it from time to time in the interwebz. :)

Hah! I didn’t even notice. Debo wasn’t available on Reddit 15+ years ago when I joined so I actually added the “re”. It took the rise of Lemmy for me to use my preferred nick. :)

lol. I’m the one who coined the term after Wadsworth came up with the concept!

Anyone message Ruud yet?!?

And you would do this to scare the seller into lowering the price or?!?

Hit the refresh button on your browser. I’ve been having the same issue and a refresh has solved it!

To be clear: put in your creds, let the spinny thing spin for a few seconds, THEN refresh your browser.

Your experience may vary, but I found Reddit to have extremely helpful advice on a whole host of topics. Investing, home automation, and car repair/restoration just to name a few that I frequent.

It’s the ability to lose a question where thousands or hundreds of thousands of people will see and interact with your post. The answers aren’t always perfect, but you’re likely to get a wide swath of responses to review and glean info from.

I don’t need a doomscroller to keep me occupied. I want communities where people are engaged and connected. For that you need both close and a large “pool” of users.

undefined> Close connections are more valuable than more connections.

It depends. Close connections of subject matter experts when discussing technical topics? Sure. When doing general research or looking for alternate solutions for something, you need mass. The difficulty of onboarding users into a federated environment hinders this.