I’ve noticed a lot of commenters straight away take things personally and think that mentioning something is endorsing it. That kills discussion and turns it into a defensive symantic battle against commenters’ assumptions.
A corrollary to what you’re saying is that people assume that because you’ve replied to them, you must be disagreeing with them. Often I’ll agree with a poster but comment to add to their point, only to get chewed out for disagreeing with them when I didn’t.
Yep. That and the insane polarization. It’s virtually impossible to have a discussion with anyone here.
I’ve been noticing that the number of discussions on the internet have been going down lately. Although maybe it’s just me using social media less? lol
Internet discourse is increasingly devolved into “agree with me or you deserve death”
Boobs
“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.
I love it when I’m reading the comments for a meme about butts or something, and then it quickly evolves into a deep discussion about the nature of human society.
B-b-b-b-butt… please remember to vote:-).
grrrrrrr how dare you make fun of shitposts at uselessserver093
Wait, wasn’t there a post the other day with Lemmy stats showing more discussion than ever?
Yes.
All memes are shitposts.
Facts.
Since federation is broken a lot of instances I follow don’t have new posts. So no discussions for me.
What do you mean by federation being broken?
looks like OP hasn’t been to the world news community.
I mean, I’ve blocked the news community. Too much political bullshit.
Removed by mod
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?
You can’t go wrong with taking inspiration from RES. Having a filter for the type of posts next to the sort type would be pretty good. That would require the posts to be discerned into categories (video, image, text…). I believe they currently aren’t?
Discussion options are limited to:
- Communism
- Trans rights
- Fuck cars
- Linux
You forgot bitching about Chrome
Communism? Not really. More like obnoxious campism which has absolutely zero to do with communism, but which becomes a communism purity test anyway. Because nothing says left unity like relitigating the cold war in perpetuity.
I’m pretty sure it’s thedonald refugees from Reddit, they’re posting about shidding fardding, and posting how scary they are, while banning anyone who says boo to them. I can see why iron fist Bolshevik fascism appeals to these cunts.
What if you get a car running linux? 🤔🕵️
What about instance drama?
Instance drama is usually related to one of the above discussion options
Don’t forget freeing Palestine
I’ll take this over the discussion options on Reddit.
Discussion options on Reddit:
- trolling / harassment
With only one non-downvotable opinion
Tbh you can even discuss most of that, if you disagree you’ll just be torn to shreds.
You forgot Star Trek
Replace lemmy with The Internet and it would be the same thing.
True. But I kind of hoped lemmy would be different. After hearing about the evil algorithms of Youtube, Facebook, etc using fear and anger to keep you engaged with their platform, I came to hope that with a non profit federated system there would be more diverse discussions with more tolerance for different points of view. But as you said, it is basically just the internet average.
After all, no evil corporate master plan is needed. It seems to me like people just like to live in filter bubbles if given the option.
Meh. I’ve seen some decent discussions here on Lemmy, just not in c/memes.
Okay, and admittedly more than half of those discussions were about Linux.
It got me to start dual-booting Windows and Mint, so the propaganda works!
Wait’ll you see how the rest of the internet is
