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
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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.
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I finally got sick of it and just disabled nsfw entirely. Spent way too much time.blocking porn I wasn’t interested in.
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.
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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)
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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.
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Have you tried sorting by new?
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Q U A L I T Ä T S O F F E N S I V E
I disagree with this sentiment. Lemmy, just as Reddit before it, is a link aggregator, not a forum. This is not a glorified bulletin board, even though it has comments. Text posts are fine, but they are not what I’m here for generally. Discussions can be great on sites like these some times, but if I want to have nuanced conversation with people there are better platforms specifically designed for that.
And honestly, I only see memes taking up like 5-10% of my feed. It was far higher back when I subscribed to [email protected] originally, but that’s why I unsubscribed from it. Your experience is going to vary by what community topics you follow
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse.
It’s literally in the first line on the Github page.
What better discussion platforms are you using? Threaded comments with an upvote system are my ideal for this sort of thing.
