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[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

It's also interesting that there are 10s of thousands of subscribers per sub, and the posts are seemingly not worth the votes or comments of 99% of the subscribers.

Every new account is automatically subscribed to every available sub.

There appears to be a silent majority who don't agree with most posts.

FTFY.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

All right, then: /s/news has 38,406 readers (many of them not hear at the moment), but there are only 13 votes for the present post. Why aren't the other 38,393 engaged? When Saiditors can address this properly, the site will develop.

[–]FediNetizen 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most people that end up using saidit stop, because right-wingers and conspiracy theorists have a strong presence that turns a lot of people off. Maybe they've had 40,000 people sign up, but of those I think there are less than a thousand actually active. Saidit also took a bit hit in popularity when IP2 got banned.

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I think you misrepresent those who lurk. I lurked for three months as I watched Reddit die. There are more lurking here who agree with the different views here than you let on.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

/s/news has 38,406 readers (many of them not hear at the moment), but there are only 13 votes for the present post. Why aren't the other 38,393 engaged?

Because most posts in news are boring.