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> The volume on Lobste.rs for some topics is just not large enough to get an insightful convo going. I get that sense too. I looked at the titles of the links
by wenc 7y ago
> The volume on Lobste.rs for some topics is just not large enough to get an insightful convo going.
I get that sense too. I looked at the titles of the links on Lobste.rs and this is a purely subjective opinion, I feel the content appeals to a specific demographic. I struggled to find a link there that would interest me (not that my opinion matters terribly).
10-15 years ago, we experienced something similar with Slashdot and Kuro5hin. Kuro supposedly had much higher quality content, but I couldn't help but feel the site only appealed to certain kinds of people. I appreciate high quality content yet could not bring myself to care about Kuro. (I'm sure many here have the opposite experience, so I'd be interested in your counterpoints).
I very much believe in curation, but without volume, curation seems like pre-mature optimization, it seems to me.
- wink 7y agoGood point. I only ever heard positive things about kuro5hin, but I never warmed up to it, no matter how hard I tried. It's the same as some print newspapers. You know they are better than some others, but all of their content is just too... dry? for you. And no, I don't mean too high-level or non-boulevard. They just seem to have an air of something that doesn't suit you.
- wenc 7y agoI once subscribed to a Canadian magazine called "The Walrus" -- it was the Canadian parallel to Harper's. The articles were well-written, but the subject matters were... how to put this... oh so boring. They were all these long-form articles about first-world upper middle class white-bread issues that few people actually cared about except for the insular literary classes. I killed my subscription and subscribed to the Atlantic instead.