I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.
Your hopes for Redditors are entirely too high.
Unfortunately it’s just something I think we’re going to have to deal with no matter where you go. Even forums with higher quality users still have lame jokes and puns thrown around.
As a Rexxitor, I second this entirely.
I’m sorry… but the pun threads are legendary. I actually hope they at the very least, continue.
It always puts a smile on my face.
…and my axe!
am i doing this right?
And the name of that axe was …
Albert AxEinstein
Take my upvote! And my !silver
This is the way
This guy axes.
That’s what she said! B)
ah, the ol’ lemmy-fiddy!
I also choose this guy’s dead lemmy-fiddy
Hold my broken hands, I’m going in!
GUH
I loved the joke threads. People continuing a reference or pun or joke was just a harmless, fun time.
And don’t forget about the song threads!
Don’t expect human nature to change just because some ceo of a different company decided to be a greedy dick, honestly
I get what you’re saying, but communities that spend time together will form their inside jokes, their way of doing things, etc. If you don’t like it you don’t have to participate. I say this with the upmost respect, but you need to get over yourself. Nobody is forcing you into a community.
totes agree on that ish
the dumb shit is what makes it feel like a community or friends getting together. if its not that its a college message board for assignments
yeah, it’s almost a bit intimidating to post here now the fun has settled. you have to think of a whole thought about a somewhat serious topic and sometimes that’s just…ugh
ya that hype will die down too
im totally a filthy casual and get the dislike but if lemmy survives and thrives, it will be with the help of shitposters
not everything has to be serious
Thank god. I enjoyed using reddit because I used to shitpost irl and have had to tone it down with work so I need an outlet somewhere…
The relationship advice threads were the weirdest. Someone would post a question like “my wife is sleeping over at her male coworkers place a lot and stopped coming home, should I be worried” and all the answers would be saying they’re just jealous and too controlling.
You and I must have been in opposite threads there. Because it was weird, but in the opposite way you’re describing.
Once saw one where I guy’s wife let her sister something close to 1% of their savings because both the sister and her partner had been laid off in one month. The guy went ballistic and move everything out of their joint accounts into ones under his name only, and gave her a strict allowance. People on reddit were telling him that’s nowhere enough, he should apparently divorce her right away, and maybe sue her.
They were also convinced that because of this one short term loan the SIL and BIL were now going to think he’s a sucker, and they’d move in.
It was weird. Those places often get weird though because people in healthy relationships, or single but happy about it, just don’t show up. So you just gave a cycle of people unhappy with their personal relationships goading other equally unhappy people.
Glad to see one of the first posts I see on here is whining about how other people post. Starting to feel like home already.
Just need the people complaining about people complaining post followed by a rule baning complaining about people. Then we can get the golden meta post of complaining about the rule stopping you from complaining about people.
When do we get to complain that some people here didn’t like something before, but some people now like that thing? Surely soon.
I’ll give it until the end of June. By that point, anyone who was going to leave reddit will have left, and new users will come more organically. At that point, the rexxitors will do what redditors do best, which is gatekeep.
So you’re saying we should encourage people to not comment and participate because you personally don’t enjoy something?
I know I’m being a bit over the top with the wording there but lets really think about it for a moment. Participation is engagement. And if we want Lemmy and by extension Lemmy.World to grow its what we need.
I upvoted you. Its a valid discussion to have. I just personally don’t think its something we should be worried about in general.
Let Lemmy grow. Growth and low effort pun threads is not what killed reddit. Corporate interference and shit stirring controversy spewing algorithms in the name of “user engagement” is what drove reddit down the drain.
This right here. Puns aren’t what was bad, it was the endless doomscrolling habit and continuous outrage going on that was. All the Rexxitors are going to see a serious uptick in their mental health. The puns were a coping mechanism, I think here that defensive reaction will be minimized.
No the endlessly repetitive puns were bad. They weren’t the only things, but they were absolutely bad.
Exactly. Like, I get that people want to have fun and all and I’m all for it even if it’s not my thing, but any relevant discussion was constantly drowned out by the pun chains and copypasted shit to the point that it was fairly obviously often just bots, but as long as a few people have their fun fuck the discussion right? Right… but I/you/we gotta be less cynical, as was said above the lemmy algo is apparently better with this stuff. So I’m at least going to try to be a little hopeful.
Yea the main reason I hated it was because I had to fuckin dig through a thread if I wanted to find a serious comment about whatever was posted. It wasn’t so much that low effort puns and shit were common, it was that they drowned almost everything else out in a lot of subs. Like even /r/science was turning into a memefest at the end.
I guess we’ll see how things develope here
exactly
Lemmy reminds me of old school BBS where actual discussion happened. I know it’s been a shift for me where I actually have to think about a response and hold a discussion instead of just following the patterns. Not that I don’t appreciate rote comments, it’s nice to expect a joke and have that delivered on. Not every thread though.
Yeah those are just circle-jerky and don’t add to any meaningful discussion.
I’ve been hoping most of those users are only here temporarily following the bandwagon/circle-jerking, and that they go back to reddit for the comments of nothing but lame puns and off-topic jokes.
I was really hoping to escape that migrating here. The comments of nearly every reddit thread just devolves into r/funny or r/adviceanimals. Distinct subreddits mean less and less, and off-topic content is upvoted in every sub just because it illicits a cheap laugh.
Reddit is less and less a place for substantive discussion and more just a dumping grounds of repetitive lame jokes. I really hope the children stay on reddit…
Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
don’tkillmei’mjoking
m’lady, m’gold me too - just jokes though!!
Lemmy sorts comments differently from reddit. Lemmy’s documentation page about their algorithm describes reddit’s algorithm as one that,
rewards comments that are repetitive and spammy.
It’s an issue the developers claim to have a solution for.
I have no problem with jokes and comment chains. People should have their fun. But, I deleted my reddit account in frustration years ago. Reddit ranks the jokes higher than relevant discussion.
I’m cautiously optimistic. Lemmy is likely to be less prone to this particular problem.
Wow, that’s a clever little algorithm. It feels like it could work better.
Reddit’s big problem (among many) was you had to get in early on a thread to contribute. Otherwise you could be so far at the bottom you might as well have sent your reply to the bit bucket.
lemmy’s algo seems in theory to work better, but we’ll only know when the userbase here gets large enough.
On reddit, once a thread got past 300+ comments, the only way to get any views on your comment was to post it as a nested comment in a top-level comment.
lol, I realized the same thing and gamed that broken system more than once.
most power users realised that, i think. and that’s what led to the pun chains.
I feel like there is a potential but minor problem with Lemmy’s algorithm. It favors new comments but what if the post itself is asking a question with a definitive answer? The best answers might get buried by side discussion as time goes on.
I think as time goes on, I’d assume the recency boost would subside and the upvotes for the definitive answers should float back to the top.
Also, length is probably favoured as well, since so many top content isn’t just 3 words.
This is the way
To shreds you say, tsk tsk tsk. Well, how’s his wife holding up?
Ahh, the old lemmyroo…
Hold my overused pun, I’m going in!
narrator: Helo There, these references are entirely-expected
Hold my nonexistent wedding ring, I’m going in
I also choose this guy’s nonexistent wife.
Me too thanks
This
the other thing to consider with low effort, duplication of memes is the server overhead. one thing to burn corporate coffers with the same people of walmart and cat tropes but this kind of stuff burns server and storage resources.
for a corporate entity looking to make billions off our data that’s the cost of doing business – but for lemmy server admins it’s a truly personal cost.
imo we should be respectful of our “homes” and try not to trash them with low value content.
I think this is an excellent point (re: server overhead) and one I hadn’t considered. Thanks for sharing that.
I want to echo what dialectic cake said. I had not considered this at all and it’s such a good thing to keep in mind. Thanks for edifying me!
Google en passant
holy hell
Actual zombie
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This is one of the jokes I hate the most on reddit. Someone doing a thing another person said they didn’t like. It’s so played out and one of the reasons I was trying to branch off from reddit.
Are you sure you liked Reddit?
This has been my internal dialog for a while now.
Damn, we’re already gatekeeping in here? Nice.
It really is fascinating though, having a front row seat to what really is a massive tectonic shift in the history of the internet. Real curious to see how this all plays out. I’ve been online since the early 90’s so I’ve seen tons come and go: AOL, yahoo, slashdot, livejournal, myspace, digg, etc, and this one feels different for some reason, but maybe its just me.
I think it feels different because it’s not website B rolling in as a replacement for website A. It’s an entire new system for social media, so the way you understand and use it has to shift a bit. I find it exciting, a lot more than if we just shifted to a generic centralised reddit alternative.
This is what web 3.0 is about.
Not crypto, but decentralization.
Web 1: fragmentation Web 2: centralizatiom Web 3: decentralization Web 4: quantum entanglement Web 5: …
That’s crazy, we shouldn’t even allow anyone here unless they had at least 1,000 karma on Reddit.
