Discussion options are limited to:
- Communism
- Trans rights
- Fuck cars
- Linux
Did you just say Arch Linux?
'Linux is slang for Arch Linux, so I think they did.
Can’t we all just hate Ubuntu in peace?
I thought I was cool leaving windows for Ubuntu. Y’all crushed me.
I think you’re cool :)
I may be heavily biased as a user of Ubuntu, but shhh
Lol you are cool bro 😘
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.
Weird way to spell NixOS…
You forgot Star Trek
No that’s also just memes and shitposts.
Not all Star Trek posts are memes and shitposts, some of them are
You forgot bitching about Chrome
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?
Beans
I see that you must have blocked certain communities that talk about nothing BUT that site that we do “not” talk about:-P.
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.
Agreeing about Firefox, Linux and Twitter. Like, seriously agreeing, without sarcasm.
You forgot Unity! Every time they’re mentioned, people say just use Godot…
Don’t forget freeing Palestine
What if you get a car running linux? 🤔🕵️
park that thing permanently and use it as a Lemmy server
Tbh you can even discuss most of that, if you disagree you’ll just be torn to shreds.
To shreds you say‽
And his wife?
… to shreds you say?
Fuck Linux!
What about instance drama?
Instance drama is usually related to one of the above discussion options
I’ll take this over the discussion options on Reddit.
Discussion options on Reddit:
- trolling / harassment
Occasionally a video game… maybe
I like when halo punches the bad guys
I like that Zelda guy with the sword.
Wait’ll you see how the rest of the internet is
Wait, wasn’t there a post the other day with Lemmy stats showing more discussion than ever?
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.
B-b-b-b-butt… please remember to vote:-).
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.
It got me to start dual-booting Windows and Mint, so the propaganda works!
Well, I mean… The L in Lemmy does stand for Linux.
Linux! Everybody Make More You-sers.
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.
I don’t do that at all. How dare you?!
Lmao notifications have no context for me (I just see the reply) but I knew right away exactly what comment this was about
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.
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.
Yep. That and the insane polarization. It’s virtually impossible to have a discussion with anyone here.
All memes are shitposts.
Facts.
Whoa there, calm down. Mom can only pay attention to one kid in the pool at a time.
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?!
Edit: replaced animated gif with a static one bc it just wouldn’t stop!!!:-P
“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👍👍👍👍👍
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.
Since federation is broken a lot of instances I follow don’t have new posts. So no discussions for me.
What do you mean by federation being broken?
grrrrrrr how dare you make fun of shitposts at uselessserver093
The prophecy is true!
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?
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?
There might be an open issue in the lemmy back end for this, but if not, you might need to open one.
