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Well, there's no following here, there are just people who create posts way too often in too many communities, so you see them all the time - like cm0002, I also see a lot of Deceptichum and LadyButterfly but not as much as cm0002
Yes that is the crucial difference. Without followers determining your reach, every post earns it's upvotes on an equal footing with the others, regardless of author.
It's a much better system.
Follower-based networks like Mastodon and Twitter inevitably end up with a handful of people dominating the space because their posts get boosted which gets them more followers which gets them more boosts etc in a spiraling way. This attracts narcissists and drama queens.
Hey just FYI that word is an ableist slur that entered the popular lexicon through self-help scams after two thousand years of being used to villify queer people.
cm0002 is a a repost bot lol. if you're upvoting their content you're harming the fediverse.
They say they just have an RSS feed and they manually crosspost. I haven't looked into if they have times they're inactive (both because it's not worth my time, and it's particularly annoying now with the 30 different accounts), but their behavior is incredibly bot-like even if they're not literally a bot. I've noticed a few times (read: this isn't a valid statistical sample omg) that they got the cross post off within a minute of the original post.
They're not a bot, just a user extremely dedicated to breaking up the Threadiverse over the political comments the Lemmy devs have made.