RE: Before twelve
I don't know if it's because I use a mobile device, but very few communities appear for me. And their names really don't reflect their content, or maybe they never had any specific content.
Perhaps the problem, as you say, is that voting is a vicious circle; since you win by curating, it doesn't matter if the content is good or not.
Perhaps it's because we are dinosaurs who grew up using dictionaries, books, and encyclopedias, and that reading was one of the forms of entertainment.
My dad, who was born in 1948, tells me that when he was young everyone read... It was very common to read Agatha Christie or romance novels if they were women.
Then television came and killed reading, and now the internet has arrived and I think it has helped to bury reading even further.
I read somewhere that new generations use a minimal number of words in their vocabulary, far fewer than previous generations. Of course, thinking is much more difficult if you don't have a broad vocabulary.
In short, what I mean is that the content we consider not very good is perhaps due to that lack of vocabulary and reading.
Going off on a tangent, I'm tempted to ask my followers for a simultaneous video conference to see how many of them are real. My suspicion is that it's just one person, haha.
Have a great week!