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thenewgreen  ·  4694 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How will Hubuski maintain a high standard?
Someone was asking me today about how Hubski is different and how it will be able to avoid memes and the like. My response was this:

"I live in Durham NC. I like it here in my neighborhood. I feel safe, I have thoughtful and intelligent neighbors that I enjoy talking with. The people around me are creative doers and I learn a lot from them. There are great restaurants nearby and plenty of recreation. About 8 miles away there is a completely different kind of Durham, with crime and crappy restaurants and people that I am not overly interested in talking with. I would not want to spend much time there. It may be the same city but they are two different experiences entirely. I almost never have to interact with the shitty side of Durham (unless I chose to). Just because they are both in Durham doesn't mean that I experience both.

If Hubski ended up having tens or hundreds of thousands or even millions of users there is no doubt that the level of content (overall) would likely wane. However, I may not even notice because I can turn off "external posts" and still just hang out with the people in my neighborhood (caio, kleinbl00, b_b etc.. you know who you are) Perhaps I have external posts on low so as to get a taste of the ghetto from time to time too :) the point is I continued, You get what you want and you can avoid what you don't want".

Do you agree with the analogy?