There's a lot of Tea about Coffee
I've only been religiously checking out Bubbles religiously for less than a week and I'm thoroughly entertained with how this "indie blog" aggregator works.
It takes me back to the days of tumblr where we had people reblogging (NGL, I miss using that word) others' opinions, piling on with their own.
In the same vein, what happens here is that a person could share their thoughts about a particular thing and then the Bubbles aggregator would pick up that post and push it to people's screens. These readers would then have their own thoughts about that thought (especially if the original thought was worded a bit harshly or somehow controversial) and create their own post in reply.
Only in this case, they have to take the extra effort of linking to the post they're replying to, out of courtesy. Because indie blogs have no reblog feature, it takes a bit more effort to create discussion, and I feel that this makes the conversation just a bit better in quality.
What entertained me was how from the titles of these reply posts, you know exactly what post they're referring to. And so for the next day, we'd be full of these reply posts, creating an indie blog version of drama.
The most recent example is the coffee fiasco. One writer posted their take about something as simple as having a "buy me a coffee" link on your page, and because it riled up the people, we have many reply posts and all of them are on the front page of Bubbles.
It's even gone a bit further with a couple of posts making fun of the issue by not saying their take, but by declaring the drink they want.
When I first read the OG post yesterday, I also didn't agree with the author, but I didn't think it warranted a standalone post. I moved on with my day. But apparently some people had thoughts and time. And so I find myself reading through every reply, my chismoso genes triggered.
And now I made this post. Not about whether asking strangers on the internet for coffee is right or not, but because of this phenomenon where posts relating to drama always get pushed to the top of any media aggregator. Because people always have the itch to know what's the tea.
-jgzn
Like what you read? Don't buy me a coffee,
