People don’t seem to understand the value of the community is what the community is about. If you dilute what it is about, by letting it be about everything, it becomes worthless. Just another dumping ground for whatever bullshit someone decides to put there. It’s the moderated communities that stay on topic that are valuable.
From that perspective you’re correct. I suppose it depends on what you want from funny. This is basically just a joke with a window dressing, does this also fit in jokes? The problem r/funny had, that looks like is repeating itself here, is that these are super low effort so they flood the community and drown out the other content. That’s why it makes sense to put these sorts of things in their own community.
I see where you’re coming from. I think as the fediverse grows it will naturally start to specialize more like you describe reddit having done in the past.
Yea well none of this is really surprising. Lemmy is supposed to be a Reddit alternative and therefor it was always destined to fall victim to many of the same issues that plagued Reddit. Just because you get rid of centralization doesn’t automatically make a platform or community good :-/. Can you believe the toxic responses we’re getting to our comments? Absolute trash people in this community.
It will be repeated based on the clown replies we’ve gotten from community members here and the down votes we’re currently accumulating. If you take clowns from Reddit and move them to Lemmy, they’re still clowns. Why would anything change?
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People don’t seem to understand the value of the community is what the community is about. If you dilute what it is about, by letting it be about everything, it becomes worthless. Just another dumping ground for whatever bullshit someone decides to put there. It’s the moderated communities that stay on topic that are valuable.
In this case the community is “funny” so posting funny lines from comedians seems pretty on topic to me, am I missing something?
From that perspective you’re correct. I suppose it depends on what you want from funny. This is basically just a joke with a window dressing, does this also fit in jokes? The problem r/funny had, that looks like is repeating itself here, is that these are super low effort so they flood the community and drown out the other content. That’s why it makes sense to put these sorts of things in their own community.
I see where you’re coming from. I think as the fediverse grows it will naturally start to specialize more like you describe reddit having done in the past.
Yea well none of this is really surprising. Lemmy is supposed to be a Reddit alternative and therefor it was always destined to fall victim to many of the same issues that plagued Reddit. Just because you get rid of centralization doesn’t automatically make a platform or community good :-/. Can you believe the toxic responses we’re getting to our comments? Absolute trash people in this community.
That’s why I framed it as learning from the same mistakes Reddit learned from already. We’ve already seen how this plays out, why repeat it?
It will be repeated based on the clown replies we’ve gotten from community members here and the down votes we’re currently accumulating. If you take clowns from Reddit and move them to Lemmy, they’re still clowns. Why would anything change?