There are days where ei literally don't even have time to read anything, let alone posting.
But I'm not a lurker.
And I appreciate your content, I still remember your hyprland setup tipping me over the edge to finally go down the window manager rabbit hole 😂
Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet
Do we really need more petty debates? 😅
I don't know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it's just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁
It's like, how in some movies and shows people have "meaningless" discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don't behave in a toxic way, it's just a way to connect and share ideas!
And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁
More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄
I find that people on the internet are largely incapable of level-headed discussions.
Eh, it's not like they are going to somehow get better at it without practice...
You cannot fault people for following rule 33.
Can I fault them for following rule 34? ...please?
I love the goal this port is trying to achieve, and I try not to be negative about content. But lately I’ve seen the kind of gate keeping that is souring people on that other site.
I’ve had 2 fairly recent examples of it. In one case, the community pushed back on the poster for being an ass. They repeatedly doubled down, and were repeatedly called out for it. It was good to see.
The second was a mod applying a definition to a community that doesn’t exist in its stated rules. I haven’t finished with that one yet, but depending on how my response plays out, I’ll be done with that community, and I’ll just go back to that other site. The particular community is excellent both here and in R-world, so I won’t miss much by saying goodbye to it on Lemmy. I’ll be sad, though.
Can you not recreate that same community on a different instance with the rules that you want?
Yeah you can, and if the community you made is better it will overshadow the worst
And even if it won't, there's still the benefit of some variety in communities so that people can choose.
I'd like to suggest removing timestamps on all comments, like you could still toggle a button to see the timestamp of a comment if you wanted to, but the timestamp shown on default doesn't serve any purpose other than tell the users how fresh or how stale the conversation is. When the conversation is say only a few hours old, many users will choose not to engage because we assume the conversation is over and there isn't any point in engaging further, so we skip altogether and move on. I can tell from my own experience I've done this more than a few times, I'm sure others have as well. When you only have a few thousand users across the world, unlike Reddit, we must preserve the freshness of the few conversations we do have so as to increase engagement from all.
You are on PieFed, so you can always use a bit of custom css to make them go away. Pop this snippet into the custom css field of your user settings:
.comment_time {
display: none;
}
On the other side I don't want to engage in discussions that are over. The Threadiverse is organized in a wayz where new content is favored in your feed. Of course there are discussions that stretch over a couple of days, but after, they die. And I think this is just the way it works, it is not meant to show all posts ever made in an equal way.
With the "active" sort, I regularly get posts on top of my feed that were originally made days or weeks ago, but still have discussions going on in the comments. I dont think thats a negative thing at all.
Right, they are not meant to show posts in equal manner - freshness & hotness do matter in engagement and are indeed shown higher compared to other posts and comments. But still, a few posts from last night might have only a couple of comments, but since it's already a few hours old, we don't reply or engage with it. We judge engagement by these timestamps and so removing timestamps will lift engagement on all posts & comments.
I guess this also has to do with user amount in general. The more users are active in the Threadiverse, the more users would engage with these posts.
Sometimes I feel like I talk too much. So I do limit myself.
I comment. Reminds me of how I'd end up playing medic in tfc/tf2- someone has to do it.
I don't post original stuff often, though.
fuck i'll lurk and smoke all day
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