The active sort should help a little with this, but ya its definitely a problem. Besides just blocking meme-specific communities, can anyone think of ways we could make discussions more prominent for people who'd rather use lemmy for that?
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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This isn't wrong, but shitposts bring people who meme which brings people who discuss. Have to get a strong user base before strong discussions really kick off.
In some niche communities, its discussions stay valid like /c/radiology
I've been noticing that the number of discussions on the internet have been going down lately. Although maybe it's just me using social media less? lol
I commented a lot on reddit. Since switching over, there doesn't seem to be as much activity for me to bounce off from. I still chip in, but it's definitely not at the same level
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I’ve found it’s hard to get any Discord community together where chat messages are less than 60% reposted meme images. Someone will post an interesting thought, and then the next post is a single emote or a cat-related meme with a single word like “Udge”.
The good thing is that you can choose to ignore the meme, reply to the interesting thought and continue the conversation. Then if you keep the conversation going, it could be made a thread if people are interested in it.
Also a honeypot for memes is helpful so people are less inclined to drop them in general channels
Meme images use more vertical scroll space than text. If just a few people repost the same “neutral expression cat” image every so often, it pushes away genuine questions very frequently.
People tend to ignore dedicated-channel rules as well.
People tend to ignore dedicated-channel rules as well.
That’s what moderation is for!
Yup. Delete the messages and redirect the user. If they get pissy they aren't a fit for the community.
Provided the community has clear rules on where to post gifs/memes redirecting the user is fine. Of course it should be a gentle reminder and not feel as if the user is getting berated.
If they still get pissy after that, it's more on the user. A reminder to follow the rules is not a personal attack.
I agree completely.
I think that's been part of my issue - there's a wealth of bad, or even just "ambivalent" actors, and not enough moderation in a lot of channels.
Plus, while stopping someone from hate speech feels like a clear action for moderation, berating them for things like posting memes in "general" can feel totalitarian. A lot of communities don't commit to that kind of strictness.
So just scroll up? It's not like when a message is off the screen, it's gone forever. Or do you never catch up on messages that you missed while offline and just go in from there?
OK - now how do I forcibly inject that thought into the minds of the dozens of other people browsing Discord?
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Lmao, the number of comments on this post is ironic. I've had some pretty fun conversations on lemmy.
It’s getting to be worse than Reddit here. Between the countless memes to scroll through and having your account banned for imaginary rule breaking because now that upvotes/downvotes don’t mean anything, people just report comments they don’t like and mods oblige…..
It's not like they meant anything before?