Since federation is broken a lot of instances I follow don’t have new posts. So no discussions for me.
Discussion options are limited to:
- Communism
- Trans rights
- Fuck cars
- Linux
You forgot bitching about Chrome
You forgot Star Trek
Tbh you can even discuss most of that, if you disagree you’ll just be torn to shreds.
Wait’ll you see how the rest of the internet is
The prophecy is true!
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?
“The problem is that no one’s contributing!”
-creates a community, trying to contribute-
-fails spectacularly with no engagement from anyone at all-
Well, that was encouraging👍👍👍👍👍
Crosspost alot while inviting to the community in post body, link in profile, etc.
Of course, Lemmy isn’t big enough to have active niche communities yet unfortunately.
Removed by mod
Replace lemmy with The Internet and it would be the same thing.
True. But I kind of hoped lemmy would be different. After hearing about the evil algorithms of Youtube, Facebook, etc using fear and anger to keep you engaged with their platform, I came to hope that with a non profit federated system there would be more diverse discussions with more tolerance for different points of view. But as you said, it is basically just the internet average.
After all, no evil corporate master plan is needed. It seems to me like people just like to live in filter bubbles if given the option.
