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.

    • solstice@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      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.

      • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

        • druppel@feddit.nlEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Web 1: fragmentation Web 2: centralizatiom Web 3: decentralization Web 4: quantum entanglement Web 5: …

  • TCGM@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    That’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it, but nothing will kill adoption rates harder than doing the whole early Mastodon thing of “you should change how you behave here”

  • zkxs@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    you have my updoot

    I jest. Ultimately without some sort of mechanic that disincentivizes noisy, low-effort joke comments there’s not going to be some sort of magical cultural shift. I’m just arriving, but from what I’m seeing Lemmy doesn’t have any sort of design that will skew comments towards actual discussion and away from jokes/noise in any meaningful way.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The way it is right now, we don’t have total “karma”, which I imagine helps to at least suppress the purely karma-farming spam. That said, there’s no real reason to think it won’t be added here eventually.

      • Sens@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I hope it doesn’t, better without karma, it shouldn’t be competitive really

        • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Never really got the point of Karma to begin with. All it really does is measure how well you match the tone of any particular echo chamber.

      • orsetto@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        But you could filter out comments containing only “this” or variations with exclamations points and such

  • Ozymati@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Some people like that stuff, you don’t have to but why make a point of yucking their yum?

  • angrylittlekitty@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • Veritrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • SlowNoPoPo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Don’t expect human nature to change just because some ceo of a different company decided to be a greedy dick, honestly

  • UnspecificGravity@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Hopefully you can find some social media platform that doesn’t have any other people on it so that you can live in peace from the dumb shit that other people post.

  • gary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy will likely have its own “the narwhal bacons at midnight” phase.

    It’ll interesting to see what it is…and then almost immediately tiresome.

  • NabiscoShredderWheat@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.