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Discussion options are limited to:

• Communism
• Trans rights
• Fuck cars
• Linux

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

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

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.

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.

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.

All memes are shitposts.

Facts.

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?!

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

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

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

"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👍👍👍👍👍

grrrrrrr how dare you make fun of shitposts at uselessserver093

The prophecy is true!

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

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?

Hello,

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world

!battletech@lemmy.world

!star_wars@lemmy.world

!americancivilwar@lemmy.world

!historyporn@lemmy.world

!forgottenweapons@lemmy.world

!coldwarwargaming@lemmy.world

!fantasywargaming@lemmy.world

!fallout@lemmy.world

and

!militaryporn@lemmy.world

are all open to the public.

There’s big robots, little robots, cursed robots, real life robots, and antiquated ships that aren’t robots but are made of metal!

I’ve found it’s hard to get any Discord community together where chat messages are less than 60% reposted meme images. Someone will post an interesting thought, and then the next post is a single emote or a cat-related meme with a single word like “Udge”.

In some niche communities, its discussions stay valid like /c/radiology

I've been noticing that the number of discussions on the internet have been going down lately. Although maybe it's just me using social media less? lol

This isn't wrong, but shitposts bring people who meme which brings people who discuss. Have to get a strong user base before strong discussions really kick off.

Perfectly balanced.

💩

Lmao, the number of comments on this post is ironic. I've had some pretty fun conversations on lemmy.

Yea what i want is discussion and i thought it would be here coz you know its a reddit alternative but ask lemmy and ama etc are really dead compared to memes and shitpost will mastodon suit me better?

It’s getting to be worse than Reddit here. Between the countless memes to scroll through and having your account banned for imaginary rule breaking because now that upvotes/downvotes don’t mean anything, people just report comments they don’t like and mods oblige…..