• @tpihkal
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      5011 months ago

      Did you just say Arch Linux?

      • SVcrossDO
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        611 months ago

        Can’t we all just hate Ubuntu in peace?

        • @robocall
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          I thought I was cool leaving windows for Ubuntu. Y’all crushed me.

          • ☆Luma☆
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            I think you’re cool :)

            I may be heavily biased as a user of Ubuntu, but shhh

          • SVcrossDO
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            Hey, if want to try it, feel free to do it. Even Ubuntu is better than Windows.

            I was also considering Ubuntu until I learned why I shouldn’t.

            You be you.

            btw I don’t like arch.

    • @Fades
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      You forgot Star Trek

      • @[email protected]
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        Just use Firefox!

        Switch to Linux!

        Why are you still on Twitter?

        Only old people use Facebook!

        [Silence about that site we don’t talk about.]

        Am I missing any?

        • @[email protected]
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          410 months ago

          I see that you must have blocked certain communities that talk about nothing BUT that site that we do “not” talk about:-P.

          • @[email protected]
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            410 months ago

            I haven’t, but I’ve noticed the discussion seems confined to those communities, and you get yelled at if you bring it to elsewhere.

        • @knexcar
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          You forgot Unity! Every time they’re mentioned, people say just use Godot…

      • @tourist
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        1511 months ago

        park that thing permanently and use it as a Lemmy server

    • @weeeeum
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      Tbh you can even discuss most of that, if you disagree you’ll just be torn to shreds.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

    • @TwoBeeSan
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      Occasionally a video game… maybe

        • Rhynoplaz
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          611 months ago

          I like that Zelda guy with the sword.

  • mommykink
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    5111 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    Wait, wasn’t there a post the other day with Lemmy stats showing more discussion than ever?

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

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

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

  • ElPussyKangaroo
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    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👍👍👍👍👍

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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.