I have only been here a few days but it's been a good experience so far. I tend to thrive on smaller boards because its much easier to express myself. On larger places someone already beat me to the topic and said what I already would have, and I see no point in echoing people. I post because I want to, the leveling up is a nice side effect but it doesn't cause me to post more.

I think the invite system is great, it filters out low effort people. By that I mean people who are just coming for memes, are trolls, etc. Lets face it, those kind are not going to expend extra effort to join a place. As another side effect it's keeping this place from getting overrun like Voat and Hubski are. Those places are a mess right now. Voat is so bad it doesn't even work half the time (I guess to be fair it is currently being DDoS'd).

I suppose the negative consequences are there is gonna be a certain amount of quality people who can't find an invite. I would imagine the majority would know where to look however. I wanted to try the place out and went to /r/redditalternative and found a topic with a code that worked. The second downside would be there is something to be said for an extremely populated place. On Reddit I can find very specific subs like /r/ssbm, /r/90shiphop, /r/learnart, and so on and so on.

That has it's place of course, but I love places like this even more because like you said you can meet people and connect to them. I'll throw in I like to have an avatar, it keeps people that much more identifiable. I am already recognizing people thanks to that.

I wish I knew people who use forums. I don't know even one in real life to give my codes to. I'll throw them on /r/redditalternatives eventually I guess.

Edit: I just remembered something worth mentioning, I was kinda hoping to find a place without downvotes. Just because it gets abused so fast. People start using it as a disagree button rather then just filtering outright spam. No one is abusing it right no...

I have only been here a few days but it's been a good experience so far. I tend to thrive on smaller boards because its much easier to express myself. On larger places someone already beat me to the topic and said what I already would have, and I see no point in echoing people. I post because I want to, the leveling up is a nice side effect but it doesn't cause me to post more.

I think the invite system is great, it filters out low effort people. By that I mean people who are just coming for memes, are trolls, etc. Lets face it, those kind are not going to expend extra effort to join a place. As another side effect it's keeping this place from getting overrun like Voat and Hubski are. Those places are a mess right now. Voat is so bad it doesn't even work half the time (I guess to be fair it is currently being DDoS'd).

I suppose the negative consequences are there is gonna be a certain amount of quality people who can't find an invite. I would imagine the majority would know where to look however. I wanted to try the place out and went to /r/redditalternative and found a topic with a code that worked. The second downside would be there is something to be said for an extremely populated place. On Reddit I can find very specific subs like /r/ssbm, /r/90shiphop, /r/learnart, and so on and so on.

That has it's place of course, but I love places like this even more because like you said you can meet people and connect to them. I'll throw in I like to have an avatar, it keeps people that much more identifiable. I am already recognizing people thanks to that.

I wish I knew people who use forums. I don't know even one in real life to give my codes to. I'll throw them on /r/redditalternatives eventually I guess.

Edit: I just remembered something worth mentioning, I was kinda hoping to find a place without downvotes. Just because it gets abused so fast. People start using it as a disagree button rather then just filtering outright spam. No one is abusing it right now, however I have witnessed the tide turn fast on places.