Why is Lemmy not a place for thoughts and observations, rather than just links, questions, and memes? And could it be? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by connect@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Does it have something to do with the rise of smartphones and no one typing on real keyboards? (Maybe why blogs died.)

Is it a consequence of voting, which blogs didn’t have?

What happens to your thoughts? Do you turn them all in the form of a question? Do you tear them down into a Mastodon one-liner and hope a popular person notices it?

If Lemmy had more of ourselves in this way, maybe it would be a healthier place.

Being idle until the media put out an article on something for us to talk about gives them too much power over us.

There’s an actual_discussion community, which isn’t exactly lively. There’s a casualconversation community, and even that’s all in the form of a question.

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[-] connect@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Lemmy’s format just kind of sucks for discussions and visibility. If you comment on a post from a year ago, you can expect that to not been seen by anyone ever.

Yes, that is very irritating.

The more classic forum format is better for discussions because replies bump the thread up to bring new attention to it.

Too bad they’re not very active, to the best of my knowledge.

Also a lot of people just don’t give a shit about random people’s random thoughts

Yeah, it’s true. I remember the stereotype of Livejournal, which might be before your time, of being teenage girls telling you what they had for lunch. They could be accused of tending toward narcissism. Me, when I want to communicate, sometimes it’s that I want to point something out, but sometimes it’s driven by a wish to socialize.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are a few active forums, but they're very niche. There's a forum called Thumper Talk for people who ride single cylinder dual sports, and a forum for Doberman Pinschers that are both pretty active. But people are lazy. Most people don't want to create an account to talk about one subject. They want one account to talk about everything. That's why Facebook and Google login are popular, despite the fact that you're sharing waaaaay too much information with some random website and with Facebook or Google by using that option. It's also unfortunate that a lot of active forums have never taken the time to make their sites mobile responsive, since most people online are on their phones these days.

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