So much this 1!1!1!
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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That's your opinion and you're welcome to it, but nothing will kill adoption rates harder than doing the whole early Mastodon thing of "you should change how you behave here"
I believe the response you’re looking for is “Well that’s, like, your opinion… man”
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sorry, couldn’t resist
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Hopefully you can find some social media platform that doesn't have any other people on it so that you can live in peace from the dumb shit that other people post.
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~~you have my updoot~~
I jest. Ultimately without some sort of mechanic that disincentivizes noisy, low-effort joke comments there's not going to be some sort of magical cultural shift. I'm just arriving, but from what I'm seeing Lemmy doesn't have any sort of design that will skew comments towards actual discussion and away from jokes/noise in any meaningful way.
The way it is right now, we don't have total "karma", which I imagine helps to at least suppress the purely karma-farming spam. That said, there's no real reason to think it won't be added here eventually.
I hope it doesn’t, better without karma, it shouldn’t be competitive really
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I wonder if this will come down to client apps (though “native” instance-level integration would be nice).
Mlem currently has keyword filters but it would be nice to filter comments out that equal a filter.
For example, I can’t stand comments that just say “this” so in theory I would set a filter for any comment that’s just equal to “this” right? But then I’d be filtering out quite a lot of “valid” comments.
But you could filter out comments containing only "this" or variations with exclamations points and such
I am still learning Lemmy, but I agree with you from what I am seeing. There is no “karma farming” here right? So the motivation is mostly people who want to engage?
There's no total karma for a user yet, yes. So the perverse incentive to make number go up at all costs isn't quite as wild as it is in Reddit.
As I wander around Lemmy more I'm also noticing that there's a lot of opportunity for instances to have their own subcultures, which goes against the "It doesn't matter which Lemmy instance you use" advice I've seen in a couple places. It definitely seems prudent to choose an instance that has an admin team and/or a theme you like, because instance-local content is going to be the easiest to find. The instance I chose is decently small and chill, but I've seen some other instances with a big focus on memes. To each their own!
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I also hope nobody is going to be editing their comment and saying "wow, this blew up."
Some people like that stuff, you don't have to but why make a point of yucking their yum?
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Just wait until someone posts something containing the substring "69"!
OMG, you said the sex number.
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Lemmy will likely have its own "the narwhal bacons at midnight" phase.
It'll interesting to see what it is...and then almost immediately tiresome.
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Lemmy reminds me of old school BBS where actual discussion happened. I know it's been a shift for me where I actually have to think about a response and hold a discussion instead of just following the patterns. Not that I don't appreciate rote comments, it's nice to expect a joke and have that delivered on. Not every thread though.
I would support a general community punishment for excessive punnery.
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