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haswell ◴[] No.43659863[source]
As a photographer, I have a love/hate relationship with Adobe. I’m not a fan of many aspects of their business, but Lightroom is a (sometimes) excellent product.

On the one hand, I don’t have much sympathy for Adobe. On the other hand, this whole situation is why I am not on social media these days with the exception of HN and niche subreddits.

Even if much of the criticism they receive is warranted, the social media climate is just so incredibly toxic that I want no part of it.

Feels like there has to be a better way to be social on the Internet, but as time goes on I’m increasingly not sure if humans can handle it once a certain scale is reached.

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1. scarab92 ◴[] No.43660157[source]
Online communities have an inherent death spiral dynamic, unless you actively moderate away toxic people.

These people drive away normal folks creating an ever more distilled community of unpleasant folks.

How many normal people are going to hang around places like reddit and bluesky that are seemingly now filled with hate and conspiracy theories.

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2. CaptainFever ◴[] No.43667917[source]
Related: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporativ...