Lemmy has so few comments that people actually read my comments occasionally, which is wild.
Seriously, that comment got, like, an updoot every two minutes so far. Crazy.
I hr and 7upvotes in and Im here to give you another handjobby…good work
Jojo you have the best takes, everybody knows that
My parents and a number of other people in my IRL life would like you to know that they strongly disagree.
Well, tell them, politely disagreeing on personal takes is a thing on the fedivers. They should join and try. They might then find your takes very much helpful and interesting.
I’ve brought Lemmy up, but no one’s seemed very interested. As for my takes, welllll… I share them when I’m in polite company.
Same for me. But I’m not sure I’ll behave the same knowing my folk are roaming lemmy’s comment.
On the one hand, it has the same potential as reddit to be anonymized. On the other hand, how hard could I be to pin down?
Hi Jojo!
You’ve activated my trap card! Autocorrect has used the spelling of a famous singer instead of little old Jojo.
Fuck autocorrect. I fixed it ❤️
Yay!
Ive gotta agree cheese can go on just about anything.
It is just nice to be able to comment and have it read instead of buried 3000 comments down after the memes and one-liners.
That’s what she said… or something.
this
so much this
Thanks for the gold kind stranger.
(This is the part where I get 50 gold for no reason)
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ReDdIt SiLvEr
Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger
Im not reading all that but congratulations. Or I’m sorry. I don’t know whatever works. (This one is actually kinda funny tho)
This one is good when someone responds with a wall of text with no formatting, bad punctuation, etc.
What, did you need something?
Oh, wait, hey! I actually did say basically this!
In a way, thats a win, no ?
Considering a big problem with conversion on Reddit is people just reacting to the headline I’d say it’s a win. I’ve noticed here when people do comment it’s more nuanced because they actually read the article.
The article summary bot helps my lazy ass lol
Hey nothing wrong with that. I like it myself
Though often the bot skips important parts and make the story confusing.
I love it too :-) On specific subjects, where I really want my mind or the content like pics etc, because "important " for me (trans, Gaza), i click the link though
I wonder if the reason for this is not due to having less comments, but instead because Lemmy simply has a different demographic. For one, I’ve noticed significantly fewer bad-faith arguments compared to on Reddit. And discussions topics that would have otherwise been trolled to hell and back ended up having reasonably impartial conversations.
I’ve read that Lemmy users are generally fairly old, compared to users from other social media. I wonder if that has a role in how discussions play out on Lemmy
There are plenty of posts on Lemmy where many of the commenters clearly didn’t read the article. It just depends on how click-baity the title is.
Except with some libs/racists/etc but yeah I agree for the majority.
Not really. People may talk shit about comments, but if it was just a matter of getting just articles, you might as well stick to the news sites. Even as far as pure news aggregation goes there are better options than relying on whatever a handful people decide to share here.
There’s value in public commentary too. It may not be as polished as these articles but it provides a variety of perspectives, questions and criticism that might be pertinent, and for as lacking or biased as they may be, it’s much easier to tell compared to sources trying to pretend impartiality.
There’s a reason why we are here and not on, say, Feedly. This particular community only highlights it further, since it’s entirely based on the interpersonal element. Ain’t nobody looking for journalism or scientific articles on !Showerthoughts
Hey, im clearly in phase with that.
What I’ve told you I’ve seen it though.
An feminist articles attacking the male vision on a pure “male subject” like computers and that’s just a fight like you can see elsewhere.
In that case, for example, the title is enough to tilt some. I’ve seen arguments told but if the articles were read, they would have never used it 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t know if I’m clear. But I agree with you, just told you me feeling BC of you know, experience x)
100%. i’d be more interested in knowing what some guys in a bar in NYC were saying when hitler died versus reading an article about it. articles are just facts put in order. biased opinions make us human.
Thanks for sharing your opinion about it.
A great thing about Reddit is that because of its size you would sometimes get an expert in that field or even the person who wrote the paper popping up. It wasn’t crazy common but did happen a decent bit.
That is ofc balanced by it being full of complete assholes who have no idea what they’re talking about.
It’s alright. Lemmy has good content and the comments are far higher quality than Reddit.
Also you can actually have a conversation and people tend to respond a lot more than on Reddit.
I’m finally over the feeling of going into comment sections thinking “there’s too many bots, no reason to try adding to the conversation”
reddit had no middle ground between new posts that get buried and overinflated posts that have a thousand regurgitated phrases plastered all over it
True. I regularly finish all the comments in a Lemmy thread. On Reddit the pile of garbage is far too big and 90% is people saying the exact same thing.
I really don’t find the conversation any better, I think this place still needs to grow out of its echo chamber stage where it’s a niche place with few commenters or diversity of opinion. I recall Reddit in its early days, different but similar.
Except mine. I’m still an abrupt asshole 😉
ok
I’ll sometimes comment on stuff but overwhelmingly I don’t. I was the same way on reddit. I just feel that I don’t have anything meaningful to say so why say anything.
I find myself commenting a lot more here. It’s more conversational than reddit. Comments are longer and not just one liner’s, and the smaller community means my comments won’t be buried. It also feels like a gateway drug to posting. I should post something today. I won’t, but I should.
Yeah, I comment more and longer. Because I’m more confident it will be seen.
And that’s the right way to approach it, but in a platform were niche communities are so empty, even a meaningless comment counts
But yeah, I try to follow the same approach, I’m interested in many things, and subscribed to a lot of communities, but why should I comment if it doesn’t help or adds anything to the theme of the post
Well, If anyone reads this, keep this as a good habit, even if it feels a bit weird in here, comment when you are of help, and learn from others when you have nothing to say
Edit: I love how the replies to this are doing the exact opposite lol, take care boys, I actually got a good laugh from this
Seconded
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We done fucked up
I just wanted to say I also This
I think it was our lack of coordination…
I have this same issue as well.
I just don’t feel like I have anything insightful or meaningful to say.
But, I feel like I should in the community I mainly frequent since it’s really quiet a lot and the main mod feels like the only person keeping things ticking along.
I also really appreciate about Lemmy how there can be a 2 day old thread on everything and I throw in my 2 cents and even after 2 days, that comment gets read. It really beats the endless reposts (and bots reposting top comments!) of reddit.
Moving to Lemmy made me realize how much time I wasted lurking on Reddit. I didn’t bother to participate because someone would have already said what I thought. Sometimes I could even read one thread for days because there was just so much to read.
But I don’t know if it’s good or bad if there are so many comments. Maybe it’s good if you learn something useful but I don’t think it’s that useful to read for days about random subject you don’t need. At least it’s a some form of entertainment. I think I just read less now that I’m on Lemmy.
Weirdly I’ve somehow adjusted for inflation. On reddit I wouldn’t bother commenting if there were more than 1000 comments, here I don’t bother if there are already 100.
Quality vs quantity.
10 comments here likely means 10 people have unique thoughts. 1000 comments usually means memes and bots.
I used to hate reddit in springtime when the kids got out from school. Now it’s always springtime.
I delete about 80% of the comments I write before posting. Even if I took the time to write a long response. This is because of the general nature of the Internet and reddit culture is definitely here on Lemmy. But, like this comment, I’ll try to engage more because I also miss the discussion aspect on posts.
I often realise as I’ve written it that I may be doxxing myself (sharing an anecdote about my past etc) so often that’s my reason to delete. It’s pretty paranoid but I do value my anonymity here.
Just go for it. At the end of the day it’s only internet points.
I refuse to comment on this post, it’s blatantly pandering. Drink Coca~cola.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Has @showerthoughts ever been about silly shower thoughts on Lemmy or is it just hot takes here.
We had a brief period where it was actual shower thoughts.
Yeah, it just feels like ask lemmy but with jeopardy rules.
Leopardy.
I recommend not using Lemmy while showering, it’s bad for your energy bill. Also electronics.
Better than Reddit’s “guys, life is like bideo game”
I consider it a plus. I do value also being able to read most, if not all, comments on lemmy too.
“I wonder what people’s opinions are, or of there’s something more to learn about this topic!”
“Oh, there’s nothing here…”
This is the biggest bummer of Lemmy so far for me. I miss the conversation.
I try to contribute, even if I’m the only one who comments.
Come on mate, it might have been the case at the inception of Lemmy but now there’s interesting content everywhere, even in your bait post 😁
#nocomment
i usually just wait on the comments. articles are dry and boring, comments have opinions and views and emotion and juice
A lot of articles are nothing but opinions and views, usually involving emotions!
The quality of comments on Lemmy, I’ve noticed, are far better than Reddit comments on average.
When you remove all the fluff, there’s about the same if not more useful stuff in comment threads here, however on Lemmy there’s way less fluff (again just what I’ve noticed).
I’ve noticed there are more absolutely batshit crazy takes.
I prefer that to the amount of wildly bigoted comments I would see on Reddit.
Like what? Can you link?
See the reason I ask is because one way to ensure there are batshit crazy takes is to claim that there are. It puts everyone on guard, making everyone less rational.
Basically, this kind of talk is bad for morale, at the level of a community. This kind of talk, if it’s not reporting something specific and real, degrades the health of a community, the ability of that community to communicate internally.
If there’s real batshit crazy stuff, it can be linked to. Consider it a sort of authenticity challenge, so we’re not all going into fight or flight mode based on zombie sighting reports, when there actually aren’t any zombies.
i always thought the constant “reddit is problematic” posting ruined the quality of subs and should’ve been limited to dedicated meta threads.
