I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

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    It’s because the majority isn’t here yet. You would have the same quality in smaller subreddits, as long as they are somewhat moderated.

    Just wait a few months and you’ll see the idiots returning with their cheap comments.

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    Tbh, I kinda miss these links. Lemmy has a big discoverability issue, and part of that is that it’s impossible to link to a post or comment in an instance-agnostic way.

    Links to communities would at least help to find new communities to join.

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      Right now the first three or four pages in my feed are almost nothing but pictures of cats in boxes. Which is fine, but it’s hardly brilliant discourse.

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        Change your sort options. Your lemmy experience will change drastically depending on whether you’re sorting by hot, active, top, etc.

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        I love cats but I had to filter those subs. I don’t want my feed to be 1/2 generic pictures of animals I can’t pet.

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      That was a shitpost frenzy, I didn’t see much of that in comment sections!

      I thought it was pretty stupid; I wonder if people are going to look back on it in a “narwhal bacon” type’a way.

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    To be fair the majority of posts I see have barely any comments at all. Not sure if that is so much better.

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        Be patient my friend, the engagements will come. Although the instances having issues doesn’t really make people want to browse lemmy. I practically never browsed past the first page of the feed before Sync for Lemmy got released.

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          It is so much better now then it was a month ago so imo we are now a floating boat rather than a sinking one that we are using buckets to keep floating

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    While I, too, appreciate this, I honestly have no idea how to link to another Lemmy instance (or whatever we call them).

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    It’s nice to be able to post wherever I want without having my accounts being happening to be x days old or x amount of karma.

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      Im wondering how long that will last. Surely, at some point, there will be anti spam measures to help combat that.

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        When Eternal September begins and all the frat boys no longer getting free booze at Reddit stagger down cyber lane looking for another party to crash and see the light is still on at Lemmy’s.

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      Strange, isn’t it? Takes some time to get used to.

      Then, once you start to get used to it, you realize how screwed up reddit must have been for civility to seem strange.

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        I’m just so excited to have conversations again which aren’t full of negativity. I didn’t really see how toxic Reddit was until RIF closed down.

        My first social media was Livejournal (I bet you’re too young to know what that is), which was a private blogging platform, and it was full of really beautiful intimate friendships I maintain to this day 24 years later. I hope for similar vibes for Lemmy.

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    I hope it doesn’t peter out like Goat did. I deleted all my 100k plus reddit accounts yesterday. I have so much muscle memory from going to reddit daily that I have to force myself not to go.

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    yeah a lot of the meaningless chatter just isnt established here.

    i kinda think that not having a summarized carma score prevents a lot of it.

    but i also feel, that this kind of suff is slowly creeping in with the migration of more users.

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      Its called genralization. Whenever a media reaches a larger audience, that media stops filling its niche and starts trying to appeal to the larger audience. Its a bit more complicated when it comes to a social media, but look at some of the larger subreddits. When they were small and starting off, they were fun and exciting. But after growing a larger audience, they became more genralized. A bit boring.

      Users are the same way. After a platform gains enough users, those users start to act in a way that is similar to picking the low hanging fruit. Whatever is the easiest way to garner attention, they do it.

      If lemmy grows to reddits size, it’ll probably be the same. However, hopefully different instances and nonsummarized karma will mitigate that.

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    As an alternative we have the same memes you know for years in everyones feed here but I actually kind of love that because it’s only the best of them!

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      We still have inline images in comments though which are arguably just as bad, if not worse. I can’t be the only one that noticed how rapidly /r/unexpected comment sections went to absolute shit when gif comments became a thing in the Reddit mobile app.

      I’ve already seen numerous cases of people using the place like discord and dropping gifs in reply to a comment, and getting upvoted because “lol moving pictures”.

      They contribute nothing, they’re distracting, take up a lot of space in the comment chain if you like compact mode, often spammed by users that have nothing intelligent to add but feel the need for attention anyway.

      I’m patiently waiting for the setting to disable it.

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      You’re lucky if you get a full word. The worst were the one letter chains that culminated in F U C K M E or something.

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      Yeah, it killed my will to participate in the comments. So much of it was those dumb jokes and chains. Originally has left the train a long time ago. I ended up sort of loathing the “humor” on that place.

      To me, this felt similar to “clapter comedy”, wherein there is no laughter, just applauses. Nothing funny is being actually said, there is no setup, no punchline. It is just people sorta agreeing that something should be funny because they agree with it, and if you’re the first yo say it, then all your unfunny friends will give you the thumbs up.

      For the record, I am a complete lunatic in real-life who joke about everything and I find almost everything hillarious. It is pretty damn sad that I get no enjoyment from theses.