this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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[–] li10@lemmy.ml 122 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

Discussion options are limited to:

  • Communism
  • Trans rights
  • Fuck cars
  • Linux
[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 49 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Did you just say Arch Linux?

[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago

'Linux is slang for Arch Linux, so I think they did.

[–] SVcross@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't we all just hate Ubuntu in peace?

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I thought I was cool leaving windows for Ubuntu. Y'all crushed me.

[–] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

I think you're cool :)

I may be heavily biased as a user of Ubuntu, but shhh

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No that's also just memes and shitposts.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

Not all Star Trek posts are memes and shitposts, some of them areData driven

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 17 points 8 months ago

Don’t forget freeing Palestine

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You forgot bitching about Chrome

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Just use Firefox!

Switch to Linux!

Why are you still on Twitter?

Only old people use Facebook!

[Silence about that site we don't talk about.]

Am I missing any?

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago
[–] moormaan@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Agreeing about Firefox, Linux and Twitter. Like, seriously agreeing, without sarcasm.

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[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What if you get a car running linux? 🤔🕵️

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

park that thing permanently and use it as a Lemmy server

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tbh you can even discuss most of that, if you disagree you'll just be torn to shreds.

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What about instance drama?

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 10 points 8 months ago

Instance drama is usually related to one of the above discussion options

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Occasionally a video game... maybe

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like when halo punches the bad guys

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I like that Zelda guy with the sword.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll take this over the discussion options on Reddit.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

Wait'll you see how the rest of the internet is

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait, wasn't there a post the other day with Lemmy stats showing more discussion than ever?

[–] explodicle@local106.com 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love it when I'm reading the comments for a meme about butts or something, and then it quickly evolves into a deep discussion about the nature of human society.

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[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Meh. I've seen some decent discussions here on Lemmy, just not in c/memes.

Okay, and admittedly more than half of those discussions were about Linux.

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[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I've noticed a lot of commenters straight away take things personally and think that mentioning something is endorsing it. That kills discussion and turns it into a defensive symantic battle against commenters' assumptions.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't do that at all. How dare you?!

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[–] wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A corrollary to what you're saying is that people assume that because you've replied to them, you must be disagreeing with them. Often I'll agree with a poster but comment to add to their point, only to get chewed out for disagreeing with them when I didn't.

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[–] Enzy@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All memes are shitposts.

Facts.

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[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Well, in my honest opinion as a commenter, I'd just like to say that I love discussions. What I tend to not enjoy is replying to the 1500 different people who replied to my post with valid takes, requiring me to read, understand and reply appropriately to all of them.

I am lazy, ok?!

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm doing my part!

Edit: replaced animated gif with a static one bc it just wouldn't stop!!!:-P

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

looks like OP hasn't been to the world news community.

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[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"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👍👍👍👍👍

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[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Replace lemmy with The Internet and it would be the same thing.

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Since federation is broken a lot of instances I follow don’t have new posts. So no discussions for me.

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grrrrrrr how dare you make fun of shitposts at uselessserver093

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

The prophecy is true!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can't go wrong with taking inspiration from RES. Having a filter for the type of posts next to the sort type would be pretty good. That would require the posts to be discerned into categories (video, image, text...). I believe they currently aren't?

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