I had to stop and think how to explain my thought process so I'll start with something that happened today on reddit, something that happened many times before: A fake expert.
It's easy for people to make up stuff, pretend to be something they're not, specially if they're not likely to meet the same people again. Even if they're likely to meet someone again, people will begin start becoming aware of the shenanigans and won't take them seriously and fall for it.
That's why Reddit, Facebook and so on are bad, too often someone comes up pretending to know more then they actually do, it's easy to create a new account, or use multiple others to boost your signal. Due to there being so many people it's hard to keep track of who's giving reliable information and who's spreading misinformation.
On Saidit, I find it often easier to see who's new or hasn't been posting, or what's the usual pattern of behavior. So, in a way, what has kept Saidit relatively a decent place is that it isn't that big.
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