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Maybe if every community wasn't just another Linux memes community we wouldn't have lost all of the users.
Told you guys this shit was gonna happen.
There are plenty of other communities people made, just most didn't become very active. If the Linux memes are everywhere, it's because those are the people actually active here
It's not that they're not active, it's that every single thread on every single community devolves into linux discussions even if the community isn't in any way supposed to be about Linux.
Also the ones that aren't active aren't active because everyone realized lemmy only caters to like three interests.
We need better moderation so that the communities which are supposed to be about Linux are, and the ones that aren't don't get flooded with it. That way newcomers won't feel like they have no place here unless they're an anti-car, vegan, FOSS user.
If this doesn't happen, lemmy will slowly die and people will have to go to other places like Tildes or back to Reddit.
Personally I don't think I've noticed this. Things devolving into political discussions, sure, but that's par for the course with social media I imagine. I had assumed you meant the prevalence of Linux stuff on the all feed.
No I mean the prevalence of Linux on c/memes, on c/mildlyinfuriating, c/programmerhumor, anywhere but Linux and Linux memes which are specifically designated for that content.
If you haven't seen it on the comments of every possible thread you're either wearing blinders or willfully ignorant. You can't go three comments down on a single post anywhere without someone mentioning Linux and then the whole thread is Linux from there.
Idea: Join me on !trains@lemmy.ml and help me post more Linux-free train and railway news?
!bahn@feddit.de auf Deutsch!
Hmm but what kind of software do these trains run on? Allow me to take a moment and explain how switching these operations to Linux could increase schedule reliability while minimizing expenses.
(/s, if needed.. I hope your community grows!)
Thanks. I'd heard they were serving WINE on some trains... (suspicious look)
Dunno if this is default lemmy behavior but you can filter keywords on Voyager (and I'm sure other clients).
A lot of the problems with Linux are the same problems Lemmy has, so it's a really good point.
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Personally I only worship Saint IGNUcius https://stallman.org/saint.html
Oh and Satan, I also worship Satan.
I use Linux, I just hate Linux users.
I bet you're a filthy systemd heretic!