• mommykink
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    511 year ago

    Wait’ll you see how the rest of the internet is

  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @Klear
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      131 year ago

      I don’t do that at all. How dare you?!

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        Lmao notifications have no context for me (I just see the reply) but I knew right away exactly what comment this was about

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      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.

      • @w2tpmf
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        This is my experience. I’ll add some additional detail that supports someone’s comment and almost immediately get a “WELL ACKCHULY” reply from them.

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      Yep. That and the insane polarization. It’s virtually impossible to have a discussion with anyone here.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • Liz
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      211 months ago

      It got me to start dual-booting Windows and Mint, so the propaganda works!

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
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      31 year ago

      Whoa there, calm down. Mom can only pay attention to one kid in the pool at a time.

  • ElPussyKangaroo
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    111 year ago

    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?!

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    “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👍👍👍👍👍

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    Since federation is broken a lot of instances I follow don’t have new posts. So no discussions for me.

  • Dessalines
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    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?

    • Wistful
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      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?

      • Dessalines
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        There might be an open issue in the lemmy back end for this, but if not, you might need to open one.