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this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2023
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Yeah I lurk most of the time and comment on neutral topics sometimes, but generally the content isn't too engaging.
It's either memes, Linux (or memes about Linux), or this or that type of politics. Lots of bot-generated content, too many American-based sports teams; lots of repeating topic content (e.g. shitload of musk, trump/biden/whatever), lots of community and/or news duplicates. I won't be lying I've seen like 5 reposts of some amd threadripper news in my active feed within 10 pages.
Sometimes I know that engaging into a small comment will yield zero replies, and other times I feel like the response will most likely be frustrating. What I valued about reddit is diverse topic discussions, interesting questions and fun reads. But people seem to have more fun bypassing my anti-politics filters in-between porn. I honestly think we need to revive many communities related to questions, interesting topics, and overall "lets-have-a-chat-on-something" (preferably not related to what I mentioned above, or at least that touches a broader audience).
Do I contribute a lot? Am I the one to tell people what to do? I don't think so, but when I have a will to create some content, that will is usually cut off by zero-to-none expected engagement from other people. People wanna do what they wanna do, I guess. I don't blame em.
It's true and one of the pitfalls of the de-centralized model. As a poster I try to crosspost the same link across servers to multiple communities big and small, as a way for people to "discover" niche communities.
I'm in full agreement on how there should be more laid back "chat about something" content. You might interested in having a look at https://beehaw.org (not federated with LW or SJW), that has [email protected] and that server might be more your speed, I personally like it a lot. Bee sure to read and follow the spirit of the server rules.
Have you subbed to the various AskLemmy/Ask[instance]/NoStupidQuestions/Out of the Loop communities across here?
To my own amusement, I found sh.itjust.works has several question communities that I tossed some posts to here & there.
Think they were:
[email protected]
[email protected]
And of course, the obligatory:
[email protected]
But besides those and the big AskLemmy communities on World and Lemmy.ml, there's:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Also although I haven't sorted out what I might want to post in them, there's these chat communities for other discussing other topics besides those you highlight getting plenty enough discussion:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
It's really just tech nerds and absolutely lost tankies doing 80% of the commenting. It's exhausting to read sometimes.
If you block out hexbear it eliminates 95% of the rabid tankie spam
My god, the amount of Trump shit I see on here is insane. I despise the cunt, but god damn do I really need to scroll past like 15 posts a day about the shit stain? Even on Reddit they didn't suck his cheeto dick so much