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Lobster's barrier to entry is high enough (shades of gmail invitations) that in my humble opinion most people will choose the site over the browser.


I was on there for while, but I wasn’t really impressed by it. I prefer reddit even with all the chaos there.


What? Why is that?


Lobsters is invitation only: you have to find someone willing to sponsor you and your sponsor's reputation is tied to yours. In fact, the entire tree of sponsors is public. So people aren't just going to sponsor a stranger, and ostensibly people who use the site are well-behaved due to potential reputational impacts to both themselves and their sponsor if they misbehave.

In my humble opinion someone who went through all the trouble to get access and maintain it is far more likely to switch browsers to stay on the site. Then again I'm just guessing because I don't have access to lobsters myself! Perhaps it's just projection on my part.


Despite being a member of Lobsters for 5 years I've immediately disabled my account as soon as I felt the community becoming so hostile to brave users. I mean, I have no time to invest with a community that makes it so difficult to reach them and discuss any issue. Web is already painful enough.


Do you have a different username there? I couldn't find your account.


It's now inactive-user on lobsters but it does not matter much anymore. I had changed my username few times on Lobsters.


They've changed their username. It's visible in the log.


And to be clear, “misbehave” also means having a dissenting, unpopular opinion.




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