Normies have the advantage in numbers. I would like to have high-quality walled gardens, but the people who could moderate them are rare, and they usually have better things to do.
Looking at the websites I read: LW had to be rewritten from scratch at some moment, and ACX currently has a problem with a certain low-quality high-quantity contributor who was already banned repeatedly but always registers a new Substack account. The standard platforms require too much moderator activity.
And the better your community gets, the more attractive target it becomes.
Normies have the advantage in numbers. I would like to have high-quality walled gardens, but the people who could moderate them are rare, and they usually have better things to do.
Looking at the websites I read: LW had to be rewritten from scratch at some moment, and ACX currently has a problem with a certain low-quality high-quantity contributor who was already banned repeatedly but always registers a new Substack account. The standard platforms require too much moderator activity.
And the better your community gets, the more attractive target it becomes.