Discussion options are limited to:
- Communism
- Trans rights
- Fuck cars
- Linux
Did you just say Arch Linux?
Can’t we all just hate Ubuntu in peace?
I thought I was cool leaving windows for Ubuntu. Y’all crushed me.
Hey, if want to try it, feel free to do it. Even Ubuntu is better than Windows.
I was also considering Ubuntu until I learned why I shouldn’t.
You be you.
btw I don’t like arch.
You forgot Star Trek
You forgot bitching about Chrome
Tbh you can even discuss most of that, if you disagree you’ll just be torn to shreds.
To shreds you say‽
And his wife?
… to shreds you say?
Fuck Linux!
Occasionally a video game… maybe
I like when halo punches the bad guys
I like that Zelda guy with the sword.
Wait’ll you see how the rest of the internet is
Well, in my honest opinion as a commenter, I’d just like to say that I love discussions. What I tend to not enjoy is replying to the 1500 different people who replied to my post with valid takes, requiring me to read, understand and reply appropriately to all of them.
I am lazy, ok?!
“The problem is that no one’s contributing!”
-creates a community, trying to contribute-
-fails spectacularly with no engagement from anyone at all-
Well, that was encouraging👍👍👍👍👍
Crosspost alot while inviting to the community in post body, link in profile, etc.
Of course, Lemmy isn’t big enough to have active niche communities yet unfortunately.
Since federation is broken a lot of instances I follow don’t have new posts. So no discussions for me.
Hello,
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are all open to the public.
There’s big robots, little robots, cursed robots, real life robots, and antiquated ships that aren’t robots but are made of metal!
In some niche communities, its discussions stay valid like /c/radiology
This isn’t wrong, but shitposts bring people who meme which brings people who discuss. Have to get a strong user base before strong discussions really kick off.
Lmao, the number of comments on this post is ironic. I’ve had some pretty fun conversations on lemmy.
The active sort should help a little with this, but ya its definitely a problem. Besides just blocking meme-specific communities, can anyone think of ways we could make discussions more prominent for people who’d rather use lemmy for that?
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Poo poo!
I’ve found it’s hard to get any Discord community together where chat messages are less than 60% reposted meme images. Someone will post an interesting thought, and then the next post is a single emote or a cat-related meme with a single word like “Udge”.
The good thing is that you can choose to ignore the meme, reply to the interesting thought and continue the conversation. Then if you keep the conversation going, it could be made a thread if people are interested in it.
Also a honeypot for memes is helpful so people are less inclined to drop them in general channels
Meme images use more vertical scroll space than text. If just a few people repost the same “neutral expression cat” image every so often, it pushes away genuine questions very frequently.
People tend to ignore dedicated-channel rules as well.
So just scroll up? It’s not like when a message is off the screen, it’s gone forever. Or do you never catch up on messages that you missed while offline and just go in from there?
OK - now how do I forcibly inject that thought into the minds of the dozens of other people browsing Discord?
Yea what i want is discussion and i thought it would be here coz you know its a reddit alternative but ask lemmy and ama etc are really dead compared to memes and shitpost will mastodon suit me better?
Mastodon managed to just confuse the hell out of me before boring me. Take that with a grain of salt, though, because I was never on Twitter. It may be me, not the platform/concept.
Perfectly balanced.
