• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The easy route to Exclusivity is Manufactured FOMO (fear of missing out).

    Visuals that give people a sense of “I’m better than you” are a huge potential moneymaker even if they do nothing functionally. We will see if we need these, but honestly even these changes start to alter the landscape of the community in I view to be negative ways.

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      1 year ago

      Keeping a community as donation supported (with no status given for doing so) goes a long way towards fostering a supportive and intentional ethos, even when it’s a small fraction of the users donating.