[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation

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.

What's also nice is that due to the lower amount of users, when you do find these people who can never take anything seriously and just spam, blocking them instantly cleans up your comment sections all over the place.

I'm all for jokes, but they get to be too much. I'm so sick of reading a long "history" of something that ends with "Source: I made it all up". Especially when it's in an informational community. I've been somewhat liberal with my block usage and it has improved things greatly.

Also consider blocking people who mass post dozens of articles all at once but don't comment. They tend to flood communities with posts that don't get much response and are no better than the bot reposting accounts. Especially when they post the same link to 5 different communities and it's all that shows in your feed.

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.

Not seeing "the ol' ___ switcheroo" or "r/unexpectedthingthatispostedineveryfuckingthread" is great

Until I left Reddit I didn't realize how not funny the comments were.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

@CashewNut me too. The top comment is always a joke. 5 out of the top 8 also attempts at jokes. Its not a discussion anymore.

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.

in reddit someone argued that Lemmy isn't user friendly because you have to make several accounts in several 'instance' thingy's and thus not practical at all. tbh if it takes unpracticality to fend off those single braincell people then all the better: might as well require 2fa and an iris scan just to post a comment or sign in smh

Did nazi that coming

Agreed. It would be nice if joke comments could continue to find a happy home in joke communities. I’m not really in it for the laughs most of the time.

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 same thing I live about Lemmy, it doesn't need to be the start page of the internet and thats fine with me.

It was a while ago, but I remember there being a forced meme about peanuts or something, right around after Reddit APIpocalypse

THIS!

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