cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/42876254

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  • Gorilladrums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I was first introduced to Lemmy during Reddit’s API fiasco back in 2023, and this exact type of post was made back then too where the entire community is held up by a very small numbers of users who post excessively. That means in 3 years, this platform hasn’t grown at all. It’s still stuck as a niche that most people either avoid or don’t care about.

    • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Disagree. There are far more posters that post consistently now a days. Before it really was like… 4 or 5 of us but now there’s far more than that.

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I don’t do memes, but I provide lots of animal pics. Mostly Sandy the Federiverse Horse and more recently, Broccoli Cheddar the Barn Cat

      • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Hellll yeah. I’ll be going out to do some training with Sandy later this week. I’ll make sure to get pics and vids of her and I’ll try to get pics of Broccoli Cheddar if he’s around when I’m there. He goes off on lil adventures and I miss him some days

  • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Sure, the volume might be less, but the quality doesn’t falter.

    I left Reddit for you, and no regrets.

    • nitroemdash@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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      3 months ago

      So you hate original content lemmyers put effort into (discussion posts, memes, photos) and praise the laziest form of content (reposting articles someone on another platform made)? Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?

      • Anon518@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        discussion posts, memes, photos

        These are not remotely equal. Low-quality, mindless meme content rots your brain. You should stop consuming it and start downvoting it.

        Calling articles “lazy content” is extremely unintelligent. I’m disgusted that you should say that.

        The “original content” you refer to is often screenshots of social media posts and reposted memes.

        Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?

        This is such a bizarre thing to say. Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators. Their whole benefit is being a single site where people can share & discuss news, instead of having to visit a dozen different websites every day. Reddit started to promote low-quality meme content, which massively degraded the quality of the platform. It’s extremely disappointing to see people on Lemmy promoting it as well.

        • nitroemdash@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Calling articles “lazy content” is extremely unintelligent. I’m disgusted that you should say that.

          Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else’s writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.

          Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators.

          Maybe they started as such, but now it’s a small part of their scope. I don’t perceive them as such, rather as a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc. I don’t recall following a single community that is about link aggregation.

          • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            No no no you don’t get it. Lemmy should be what THEY want it to be, not what everyone on Lemmy collectively makes it. Anything otherwise is wrong simply because one bloke online is very certain it rots your brain.

            QED

            /s

          • Anon518@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else’s writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.

            I don’t know what you’re referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.

            a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc.

            Sure, that’s a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.

            • nitroemdash@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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              3 months ago

              I don’t know what you’re referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.

              Pasting a link is even easier than pasting text.

              Sure, that’s a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.

              So, no more memes on /c/memes@lemmy.world?

    • LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That article was so conflated and entirely waffle, I couldn’t read it. It doesn’t offer science behind brain rot. I think it’s ok for you to have an opinion for yourself on what brain rot is, absolutely, but when you start going warmonger on it, you should really make sure you have more science to give you an understanding and ability to communicate your opinions with more clarity.

      There is science out there, but not in the way you might be thinking, based on some of your opinions expressed here. Brain rot isn’t going to be able to be avoided by curating the content, the effect of disassociation is caused by distraction, it could be argued any content caused that disassociative effect, which essentially sends your brain into a form of fight or flight, causing it to feel like it’s not safe to be here,( if I have to disassociate).

      I don’t have any great articles to link at this time. But I would suggest it’s a personal balance thing. Taking the time to limit the time you spend on the internet, yourself personally, and just taking a moment to exist, just breathe and be, where you are, right now.

      The more engaging and interesting posts will naturally float to the top. Maybe, you need to change your settings, or the app you use to engage if you are getting fed with everything as its first posted. I noticed an entirely different experience going from boost to voyager app.

      This place isn’t about one person deciding for everyone, what is and should be, the antithesis of that is why this place exists, and I’m sure you’re noticing, you don’t have many people who agree with you. Maybe Either your delivery needs to change, when discussing your opinion, or your opinion itself, might need some expansion and nuance.

    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Dude just make your own space and moderate it accordingly. It will be empty, but at least you’ll be happy.

      • Anon518@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        No thanks. All I need to do is wait for the next Lemmy update. Then I’ll be able to block all the low-quality garbage.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    First time scrolling this morning and I went to like this before realizing I already liked it from last night before bed…

    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Probably my larger issue with Lemmy as a whole. I work a job that has a lot of downtime but loud environments so my ADHD ass likes to just read content and comments since I need to pay attention to the noise around me. Then I get home and watch some TV or sports on my PC’s second monitor while I want to scroll content and comments (Been a forum user since I was 8 years old) and the repetition here can get a little off putting.

      Don’t get me wrong I love it here. Beats Reddit. But still…

      • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I quite like that it’s not an infinite firehouse of content - it means a limit to how much time I waste, unlike my Reddit days when I’d often block the site so I could get something done.

  • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    while Lemmy scratches my post reddit itch, this is one of the down sides. Everyone goes to Reddit, despite it being an AI Bot filled shit show, so you never get the same visibility. At least around here you get a better quality of poster, and you don’t need to select your words quite as much.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Everyone goes to Reddit, despite it being an AI Bot filled shit show

      Search engines direct you to Reddit as a first page - even first result - choice. It’s superceded Wikipedia in a lot of cases.

      • Mwalimu@baraza.africaEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Which tells you organic human generated content is increasingly rare and here we are probably the last unpolluted corners of the human experience outside the non-online local experiences.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          here we are probably the last unpolluted corners of the human experience

          :-/ I seriously doubt that.

          At some point, we’ll have to find a better way of sifting the wheat from the shit. But I’d be crazy to assume bots around bouncing around the Lemmiverse pushing misinformation just like they are everywhere else.

    • AlexisFR@jlai.luEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It’s not that bad, Lemmy still has a long way to go if they ever want to be something close to an alternative.

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Better quality of poster? All of these memes OP is talking are just straight from Reddit.

      • TheStaffmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I mean they actually have a brain and can use context clues. There’s also a rather high chance that someone you meet is an ACTUAL HUMAN.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      That’s the worst part of Reddit. The absolute toxicity and superiority complex you see in these giant subreddits. 1 wrong word and everyone comes after you based on 1000 assumptions from that 1 word.

  • Impractical_Island@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Bro, I’m righting the most I can, being as skilled at that as I am while not just recycling comments and battling mental health out the wazoo. I think I’m a Mormon now, though, so I should be able to quit drinking like I quit meth and Benadryl.