Reposted by Random Jeweler
patreon’s idea to add more social components to the platform in order to increase discoverability of other creators wasn’t an inherently bad idea. but for it to work they’d have to take a hard line against slop, and they haven’t, so my feed is now full of shit like this
![By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreihnug56wzczu6qvirzzepjtp7owp3tynpy2sqw6bset7o53w4zhbu)