Mar 3, 2025
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it feels like maybe a small part of the issue is people not using recs as recs (as you mention)? iāve kind of moved away from the everyone tab bc itās like 1/3rd of it is people just posting random thoughts or poetry like twitter/tumblr :/ i really like the re-rec feature because i like curating them to my list of recs and it also prevents the site being flooded with the same rec a lot of times but i see how re-recs could maybe feel the same way
when i say poetry i donāt mean like recommending a mary oliver poem but like the people who are just posting their own ādeepā prose and poetry without any actual recommendation attached to it (at that point basically making it the same as a post on any social website)
marxinista my thoughts exactly. I think the feature is fine but the way people interact with it has been kinda lame. And people arenāt really posting recommendations, or showing off work or anything. Like you said itās mostly ādeepā thoughts like when tumblr and twitter started.
marxinista I hadnāt really considered that, thatās super fair. I like the re-rec feature too, and that it saves posts to my profile (sometimes bookmarks and lists are buggy for me), but I get the point of trying not to re-rec without adding a related rec. sometimes I do add little poem jaunts based on OPsā recs through re-recāing, but I can strictly stick to comments of recs for that re not adding intended value
also this might be a timezone/life happenings thing, but I will say Iāve only been able to catch gems of recs because theyāve been re-recād quite a few times in the everyone tab. I guess thatās what following certain folks are for, but Iām finding the more people I follow the harder it is to navigate the friends tab too
I almost instinctively re-rec'd this and immediately understood why the feature might not be the best.
