seems like it’s 97% memes or news articles. i love a good shitpost but this site would be even better with in depth nuanced discussion – especially with a higher quality userbase than reddit
Be the change you want to see in the world! (I realize this is also a text post)
CONTINUE to be the change you want to see in the world!
LOL
Personal opinion: Lemmy needs less of these tiny bullshit communities that nobody cares about, cluttering feeds. I don’t need to see a post from a 4 person dnd group in Alberta (fake example) i dont want tonsee a community for every damm city in the world, sports team in the world, etc. There’s a user going around making a new community for every type of “imaginary art” that they can conceive… why? Just make a darn “imaginary art” community and put it all there. People who aren’t interested shouldnt need to block so many stupid communities just to find something else.
Whats causing people to make everything so annoyingly granular?
There’s no need for people to be making all these public communities, you’re watering down the entire fediverse with your misplaced intention to populate it with more content. I open my feed and there like 1 thing per page that is interesting or relevant in the slightest, other than NEWS/POLITICS.
Am I a shit lemmy user? Do others feel this frustration too? Lemmyknow
No, I’ve blocked more communities since coming here than I would prefer. Just scrolling the All Hot feed sometimes looking for new stuff is really annoying. Theres an especially weird problem with hentai. I’ve blocked I swear like 40 communities, and they all could have been one single community, bcz when you click into the community, it’s one person posting over and over.
My blocked user list is not nearly as long as my blocked community list, both slow my experience, and needlessly tax infrastructure I don’t pay for. And the issue really limits the number of migrants from other sites I think.
We need better tools. We need a better communal understanding that you don’t need to make a new page for every subset of classification if post type possible. Also I am unable to block the russia.sopul or whatever it is, which… honestly creeps me out and gives me a lot of pause for thought if I am safe using this site at all. If basic functionality like blocking a community can be tampered with by a community, I don’t want to be here tbh.
Edit: can anyone else block: https://lemmy.world/c/russia@sopuli.xyz. ?
I finally got sick of it and just disabled nsfw entirely. Spent way too much time.blocking porn I wasn’t interested in.
You’re not alone. Thank fuck you said it. People create a whole new community where a single post would have achieved as much. It’s waaaay too broken down over here. I have had to block comms for each English premier league team, each fucking one. And pretty much empty comms apart from dead threads on match results.
I’m pretty sure, and I was going to try avoid being saying this but here I go anyway, all these little fuckers just want mod power and the reason they left Reddit was because they didn’t have it. They’re making every fucking Community they can think of in the hopes that they can be a power mod someday
Preach
Yeah, it’s annoying having to block a dozen communities for the same subject, especially since you have to face the same issue for every server! I finally broke down and stopped using Jerboa and started using Sync, just because it has great blocking features. You can block by username, community, by server, and by keyword. I have a bunch of keywords blocked. “Trump, Elon Musk, Politics, Democrat, Republican, Twitter”, and a couple dozen more keywords are blocked for me because of how annoyingly pervasive they are. Some stuff still slips through, but because it’s not a constant onslaught, I actually enjoy it when it does slip through, instead of being constantly bombarded by it.
Are you browsing by all? Subscribe to what you are interested in and just browse that feed.
That way you only get the stuff you want and can target it to directly that (maybe you want imaginary mermaids, but not monsters?)
Yeah the problem is I can’t find things I’m interested in to be honest
That works when you have your profile set up,as it were. But communities I want are still absent or being formed, and my subscriptions list is not complete,so I still browse by all to get wind of new ones as they pop up. I cannot wait to retreat from all back to a curated list though.
memes don’t give much discussion but news does. And I mean…
A link aggregator for the fediverse.
Don’t mind text posts though, keep it up
I can’t speak for others, but I know that I’m also much more likely to comment on news posts without so much spin (and that feels like most of the fediverse news links I encounter).
One of the main reasons I got tired of politics on reddit was the agenda-posting / rage bait.
What bothers me most are all of the bots crossposting from reddit. I came here to get away from reddit.
Yeah, same. I’m fine with memes. Im not fine with bots.
You can block bot posts in your feed. And there are certain instances that are pretty much all bot posts you can just stay away from in general. But I completely agree about them being a problem. Lemmy needs it’s own original content if it’s ever going to succeed. Treating it like a Reddit mirror isn’t going to move our community anywhere.
Gotta have more users for text posts. I don’t know about you guys but if I see a text post with 10 comments I move on unless I have something good to say. I’m way more likely to get involved if 500 comments are already there. Does this make sense? Probably not, but it’s very intuitive.
I prefer the opposite because then it’s much more likely to get a response. Something that already has a few hundred or few thousand comments is when I just shitpost snark because it’s not even likely to be seen by anyone other than possibly the OP through getting notifications of replies.
the lemmy sorting is way better though, it seems like something can be at the top of hot even if posted late in the lifespan of a post
Yes, it kind of does. Idk why, but I’m very likely to engage on comments, but very unlikely to be the first person to comment on a post. I recognized this the other day when I clicked a post I wanted to comment on, realized there were no comments, and hit the back button. But then I realized how that’s kind of dumb, and not great behavior for a fledgling website, so I went back and commented.
I’m here solely for text. IDC about videos, music or images. I see this as forums and forums I see as for speaking with people. Consider yourself spoken to.
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I’ve seen some legitimately great points here get lots of downvotes. But they get upvotes too and that’s why I hate that most of the good apps for Lemmy have followed the reddit model of combined karma, rather than showing the split karma. It’s terrible for conversations. There’s a big psychological difference between a post with -15 karma, vs a post with 200 upvotes and 215 downvotes.
You say most good apps. Are there any that don’t do it? It’s one of the reasons I don’t use apps for Lemmy.
Jerboa didn’t when I was using it. It’s a pretty good app, it’s just missing a lot of filtering functionality.
Avelon lets you choose how you want them to look. I personally have it showing downvotes when it hits controversial territory (25%).
I’m here for it,
Oh goodness I’m commenting. I hope this will be a slippery slope for my engagement (without being a detriment to my professional life)
[Insert random rage reply here]
Just want you to feel engaged with
I agree with the whole discussion thing so let’s engage. I don’t really think that we have a higher quality userbase than reddit honestly. You have to be a little more tech inclined to even find your way here. I feel like it’s the same thing that happens when you go to university where you will meet a lot of people who just have to be a certain way to even find their way there. I think that lemmy is just way more like minded than a place like reddit. I won’t drone on because I think you get it. So if you want to call that ‘higher quality’ then I agree. Discussion for the point of discussion I suppose
I too prefer to read text posts over articles or videos. But I guess it depends what you follow? My home feed doesn’t have as many articles or videos. Memes sure but I did sign up for that.
I notice that I tend to do light remarks first – test the waters, you know? Most of the time, IMO, OP just want a light hearted talk, or validation of some kind.
I do agree with the text posts though, and probably would be great to learn from/ contribute to an in-depth talk.
You know what’s cool? Sometimes I get responses on my comments from people that clearly just want to have a conversation. I’ve been conditioned by like buttons and snarky quips for so long that sometimes it takes me a second to stop and realize “oh yeah, I want to have a conversation too! That’s why I’m here!”. It’s pretty neat, and it’s something that I’ve really missed from the old days of the internet (old days? Fuck I’m old and shit). Anyways, I agree with you, we benefit from more meaningful conversations here, and I’m happy to say that I’ve seen more of them here than anywhere else on the Internet at the moment. There’s a forum I’m a member of (thumpertalk.com) that still has pretty good conversations, but mainly only about single cylinder motorcycles. This place has such a wide variety of interest groups that you can start off talking about cats, and end up talking about deep literature. Pretty cool, guys, pretty cool.
Agreed, also shameless plug for !CasualConversation@lemmy.world (you have to allow bots to see the daily thread)
Exactly.
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