I was Reddit earlier and viewing one of question subs. The top 5 comments were all ‘jokes’.
What’s worse is no matter how unfunny the top jokes are you’ll get hundreds of cold comments flogging the joke to death.
The 6th top comment actually answered the question.
Lemmy may not have as much content but what is here is so much better quality.
I strongly agree with your sentiment. There is absolutely less karma whoring here and it makes the place nicer to be in. Jokes stop being funny after about the thousandth time but the circlejerk stopped them from dying.
I love that you don’t have to trawl through a mile long pun thread before you find a comment that is actually novel or contributes to a discussion.
Then again it’s not like this place is perfect, there was the bean thing which was funny for about five minutes but went on for weeks and meme accounts which are the same old flogging jokes to death that you were talking about.
^This
It would be nice to be able to mark a comment as silly while writing it, just like low priority emails. OP could skip notifications for those and they could be sorted to the end.
Tildes has this feature, and I love it. There are a bunch of tags that can be applied to comments, both of the “this is a brilliant contribution” and “this is noise/low effort/silly” varieties.
In general, Tildes culture is high effort, but there’s still room for fun. It’s nice to see each platform innovating.
Yes, this would be an excellent feature. Only problem is people exploiting it to hide or ridicule legitimate responses they don’t agree with. But that’s a problem for later. With the cussing userbase and growth rate this feature works be great for quite a while.
I believe the implication is you self flag these while writing them, so people can filter them out if they dont want the clutter
sage Sage SAGE When you have nothing of value to add, rage out with your sage out.
Time to appropriate a feature from *chan sites
Gonna have to disagree, the quality is identical there’s just fewer overall comments so it seems that way at first glance. Instead of the top five being jokes it’s only like two and they aren’t as upvoted.
Not seeing “the ol’ ___ switcheroo” or “r/unexpectedthingthatispostedineveryfuckingthread” is great
The switcheroo has sadly already begun
Ah, the new Lemmy switcheroo!
Banning all jokes is also a mistake. The biggest joke on Reddit was the science subs, where hardcore moderators pretended to be responsible for building an encyclopedia of only true statements. Leave that for Wikipedia or actual publishing. Nobody in their right mind would go to Reddit or Lemmy to search for the absolute truth about rocket science anyway. A forum is a place for discussion and conversations and should contain clueless questions and even jokes.
I don’t mind a joke or a good pun as long as it’s original and relevant to the context. Some jokes only work well in a serious context. The problem is that they’re not original and often forced to fit the context.
Serious and interesting comments also get repeated ad nauseam. This happens because of the size of the userbase. It’s “original” to someone. (Please don’t link the 10.000 xkcd).
Also the age of the users. There are soo many juveniles on Reddit who still have to learn how to even have a conversation that isn’t about arguing or one-upping the previous poster.
Overall, I think people here have a better grasp on what they want from an online community.
It used to be funny to open up a thread on /r/AskHistorians and see all the comments removed and the thread locked. In that sub, even true information was forbidden if it came from a dilettante.
siR tHis iS a WeNdyZ
Lol, the Earth will be fine.
Hey, man, do you even realize how hard it is to scrape the bottom of a barrel? It’s pretty hard. Especially if you’re a large fellow.
I’ve never understood what’s so difficult about it. Once you flip it upside down it practically scrapes itself.
But then it’s the top.
Top comment right here.
Move to Australia first.
Taps head
Nah, that stuff sticks, that’s why scraping is required.
Most commentators there are playing to the gallery rather than answering the questions. The size of the question subs actually makes it harder to get a good answer.
The best karma return per comment is not to craft a lengthy, thoughtful reply but to fire of a snappy one liner as fast as possible.
What I have written is also not inciteful or original. It has been well know for a long time and is pretty much a factor of sub size and the demographic spread of the user base (which skews young, cis, male and american).
This is the crux of it.
I was so unbelievably sick of the rote comments (bAnAnA fOr ScAlE?!?), and edgelord opinions, and half-formed trains of thought that overlook a lot of the nuances of whatever is being discussed.
Lemmy is a lot better by miles.
* insightful. Unless you actually mean to encourage a mob, in which case, carry on!
Sometimes, a spelling mistake can be strangely insightful.
You’re trying to incite insight.
This is the same thing I live about Lemmy, it doesn’t need to be the start page of the internet and thats fine with me.
I think it’s slightly less of a problem with the platform and more of an issue with how the content that is the replies get served. First come, first serve. Even on Lemmy the first few responses will be much higher voted than the rest, because they get sorted to the top.
This is the main reason I’m here. In 5-10 years, the fediverse will be standard, and full of the same slobbering morons. But for now, being niche and fresh, it seems to be populated by more intelligent and conscientious folks.
Personally I quite enjoy stupid jokes, but it’s not like I super miss them. I just have a soft spot for bad puns and low effort word play
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think I prefer the jokes over what I’ve experienced on Lemmy. So far a lot of it has been smartasses that seeming only care about broadcasting their opinion with little to no interest in actual discussion. Kind of like Twitter actually
Mentioned it elsewhere, but Mastodon continues to be one of the best social media experiences I have ever had (look, it isn’t as low of a bar as you would expect but still…). Something about the nature of Mastodon means people actually talk to each other and try to elaborate on talking points. My theory is it is because basically everyone on there knows it will never be “the new twitter” and are instead focused on being what twitter should have been.
Whereas lemmy… Lemmy is like going on a date with someone who just got out of a long term relationship. They can’t stop telling stories about when they were with their ex or comparing you to them. And… when you head back to their place after drinks they keep joking about whether they can film themselves giving you a blowy and sending it to their ex to show just how over him they are.
Combine that with a much more lax policy toward piracy and a LOT of “I just learned what linux is and anyone who doesn’t use it is a sheeple” college kids and… yeah. Plus, I have definitely gotten the vibe that a few people want to become one of the big “personalities” of the platform.
Honorable mention to Cohost. I think people have really done a good job of making it feel like something special. But it also feels like everyone isn’t sure how horny/weird they should go on nu-tumblr.
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I have noticed a much stronger contingent of Tumblr vibes. I wish I got more humor, but instead I get this gestures broadly.
It’s the brooding sensitive types that crumble under humor or criticism that I see most. Maybe I’m the antagonist of this story but I feel like I’ve made more people cry on lemmy than I’ve made laugh or change minds, and I’m not the even the mean reddit type.
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I feel like I’ve made more people cry on lemmy than I’ve made laugh or change minds, and I’m not the even the mean reddit type.
This is certainly a statement.
I can’t speak for Tumblr vibes since I’ve never interacted with that platform much. But I do agree with you, I also see there are more sensitive users here than on Reddit.
I’ve seen individual instances like that, but ofc ymmv. Curate what you do not enjoy, and maybe consider switching instances even if need be, to get something acceptable to use. Life is too short to waste your time otherwise - there will always be trolls, so let them troll, but you don’t have to choose to share the same space as them!
Although ofc some amount of that is going to happen no matter where you go, so it’s a matter of degree (and also of kind, in terms of new levels of severity) depending on your instance, the magazine you are in, etc. Even so, blocking can work wonders for someone who simply ruins every single conversation they are involved in without ever contributing positively. It is not your responsibility to help train everyone around you to live life, if you do not want to! It is nice to have choices, sometimes:-).
It’s a fine line between information between smug comments and expected internet room meme banter.
I just want to learn without being judged and there’s always a place for funny comments with some nuance. I don’t want to be talked down on for not “knowing it the right way” or only see callback comments to that one funny thing 7 years ago, y’know?
lot of it has been smartasses that seeming only care about broadcasting their opinion
Honestly, I have not really experienced that much at all. Sure there is the odd case of it but blocking the odd user or sub seems to fix that pretty well.
It may well be that your instance is federated with some of the problem ones and mine is not but I haven’t really paid much attention to the federated/defederated stuff.
I have seen several posts of people complaining about the users of a periarticular instance (there are a few recurring ones) but I haven;t a seen it despite spending a bit of time browsing /all.
I would prefer people trying to be funny over endless threads about how Reddit sucks.
Let people like what they like, and leave the elitism out of the fediverse.
I went back and forth on this when I was new to Reddit. At first I was frustrated by the humor in the comments but later I appreciated having a laugh so I actually liked it most of the time.
Laughing is good for you. Questions on social media don’t have to be stoic academic discussions. There are other places for that. It is ok to laugh a bit.
I also think the question should be answered, so I do agree with you…in part.
Funny is good. The same endlessly recycled puns, references, and predictable comment chains aren’t funny, though.
I do agree with you, however.
Reddit is this weird combo of the unfunny pun-chain dipshits who take nothing seriously lumped in with the “AKSHUALLY” assholes who take themselves way too seriously.
The vibe on Lemmy is much better in general. And when you do encounter a random jerk here, blocking works. As another commenter pointed out, the lower population of Lemmy is a feature not a problem.
Reddit is this weird combo of the unfunny pun-chain dipshits who take nothing seriously lumped in with the “AKSHUALLY” assholes who take themselves way too seriously.
Hey, some of us do both at once! Get it right! 😡
I always love it when there’s a thread about annoying behaviours and people show up to demonstrate that they are the exact thing being complained about 😂
