A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I'm not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn't see much juice on the topic, so thought I'd spark it up....
I do not want to see polls added unless it's only moderators and admins who can post them. If Lemmy is anything like reddit (it is), the vast majority of them will be useless clutter...people posting polls as "content."
It encourages clicking a button over leaving a reply. We'll get a thousand "Do you think [thing] or [other thing]" posts with very little engagement.
"I read what you wrote as a standalone comment instead of as a reply so I ignored all context"
...okay
If the person I replied to was correct in saying that 99% of Lemmy is memes and I have memes blocked, that would mean I am only seeing 1% of posts when I browse. I am saying that if that was true, I would run out of posts quite quickly and that has not been my experience at all. I'd wager it's much closer to 50% memes than 99%
I'm always surprised when it happens. 99% of the time I'm just tolerated, but every once in a while someone asks. Happened last night. I was sooooooooo happy.
Oh man, when I meet an autistic person who shares a common interest....yes please give me that info dump. Not only am I interested but your enthusiasm is infectious, too.
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...
I'm with you there. It took me a bit to block some trans communities because I felt like it made me a bigot despite being an ally. I just have nothing to add to the conversation so it's the same as sports communities - just something I scrolled past anyway
The worst part about meme subs is that they have a decade of subreddits to repost from. I know...insert xkcd comic about being the lucky 10,000...but personally I've seen all those reposts of overused templates 100 times over the years and don't want to see them again
Porn: there's so much of it on here. If I didn't block most of it, it'd be half my feed
Sports: I simply do not give a shit about the stats of some cricket game I didn't know about
Anime: I'm frankly just sick of the art style that so much of it shares. I don't dislike anime as a rule but for a lot of shows, you could drop any character into another anime and they'd fit right in. And on top of that, I can't stand the hyper sexualization of immature female characters that is so prevalent in the genre. I don't think middle schoolers are hot so I don't like when "sexy" characters act like one
I get you but I disagree about Far Side because it's almost entirely wholesome. Boomer humor is comics complaining about social issues or how awful your wife is
I'm "atheist" but I can't stand the atheism subs. There's just not much to talk about. You could replace them with one post titled "religion sure is stupid, right??" and nothing would be lost.
If a community only has posts I scroll past anyway, why have them show up at all? I want to see an interesting post followed by an interesting post even if it means running out of posts. It's why I can't enjoy Instagram...every other post is an ad I have to scroll past to see what my friends post
Since you're an anime enjoyer, I have a question: do you ever find that there's a lack of variety in the art styles? I was pretty into it in the 90s/2000s but it seems like there's a new anime every week that looks identical to the one before it
There's way too many communities consisting solely of bots reposting from the subreddit of the same name. I do not understand why anyone would want that. There's rarely comments
I totally agree. Before I found the option to disable custom display names, I found that guy insufferable...2024 equivalent of xXxUSERNAMExXx. I don't think I've noticed him since, though I'm sure I've read his comments
Yep. I don't like calling myself an atheist because I can't stand emphatic atheists. I'm not gonna define my identity by what I don't believe and I could not care less about what other people believe as long as what they practice isn't harmful. If religion brings you joy and you aren't oppressing someone in it's practice, why should I have an opinion on it? You do you!
Hooollyy shit I totally forgot about those and had the exact same complaint! If I'm remembering correctly, at least some of those communities were from bots not flagged as bots. So you had people replying because they didn't know...
They were some of my early blocklist entries for sure
The second-to-last one made me actually laugh out loud. What the fuck is that title lol
Aboringdystopia is one of those communities that doesn't resemble its namesake at all. The subreddit had rules to match the theme but the Lemmy equivalent is just the same news articles of shitty things happening that appear on all the other news communities. They're so lax about what constitutes "a boring dystopia," it feels so lazy to me
I saw the first two seasons of AoT and liked it a lot. It has a well-defined art style. My only "complaint" is that I had a hard time telling a few characters apart
Do you know the word/name for the art style I described in my other comment? I call it "kawaii anime" but I know that's not right lol
Boomer humor is not all humor that boomers like. It's humor that was primarily popular in their era - like "I hate my wife" jokes fit because don't really play well anymore
I set my language and don't see a lot of non-English communities but I'm not sure if those two things are related. I don't mind filtering them out, it's no more than a couple per week
Lemmynsfw must not be federated with lemmy.ml and that's where it's concentrated so that makes sense. Horny anime posts are an instant block for me and I think I've taken care of most of them. I usually just see the -moe communities pop up now.
But thanks to your obnoxious comment, I now understand that sports, porn, and anime are a "worldview" and I'm unhealthy for blocking them. You are right, my life would be better if I knew that the Dodgers were trading Jimmy McBaseball. Not sure how I lived without seeing hardcore anal porn or Generic Anime #6362 on my feed every day
Well another commenter just told me that blocking sports and anime is equivalent to an echo chamber so we both better unblock them to have a healthier worldview /s
I forgot about the game subs in my estimate...I've got a lot of those blocked. I just don't care about patch notes for games I don't play.
It must suck to be a "normal" boomer in the internet getting lumped in with the shitheads of your demographic. Hell...you're the ones who pushed the civil rights movement.
It's a shame your generation (not you specifically, of course) fucked the world up to the point that every generation after you looks back in disgust and doesn't even consider the things you did right.
Bot-driven communities feel like ads as opposed to communities with bots that post, say, game patch notes automatically. I want there to be a reason something is posted other than to fill a void
I think it's really the policies pushed by the politicians that your generation voted in that led to the boomer hate. My generation will surely be remembered for Trump just like yours for Reagan
Sorry I think we're on the same page here, my generation is largely anti-trump but we're going to be remembered for voting him in. I was trying to draw the comparison of falsely placed blame.
Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? ( slrpnk.net )
A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I'm not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn't see much juice on the topic, so thought I'd spark it up....
someone actually asked for an info dump ( lemm.ee )
I'm always surprised when it happens. 99% of the time I'm just tolerated, but every once in a while someone asks. Happened last night. I was sooooooooo happy.
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)...