Because the right sub for their question doesn't have many people, whereas asklemmy will be read by a wider audience
True! But at least we are also getting content on ask Lemmy!
Yeah I like it. It reminds me of how Ask Reddit used to be.
Ever since Ask Reddit removed the body section of posts, just leaving people with the title section to work with, I feel like it's mostly been generic dull questions where everyone says basically the same thing and doesn't elaborate.
Prime examples:
Q: Men what is something we can all agree on?
A: We've all fantasized about being the hero in some daydream scenario.
and
Q: What is the most basic thing you are terrible at?
A: Holding a conversation.
I'd rather hear about someone's struggles to install Arch Linux
Q: What cliche is true about you?
A: I use arch, btw
Three different Reddit users: This.
Thanks for the gold, kind stranger
Take my updoot.
Need more updoots NEXT!
Gets -1 karma
Edit: I can't believe how toxic this place is
I suspect community discoverability is also an issue, maybe even more than it not getting a response there.
We copied over subreddits without copying the spirit. It's a free-for-all on most of these communities and it sucks
Nostupidquestions is full of questions that belong here
Wasn't aware of that comm, thanks for sharing ๐
It's full of reply-baiting vent posts like "why would [company] do [something that favors profit over user experience]?"
I've seen only a handful of "good" questions
It's got a name that doesn't intuitively indicate its role.
And it has a substantial population as the Fediverse goes.
Kind of funny because there's bound to be lots of tech people here
Because too many rules there, obviously.
It may be beneficial to comment on such posts with some links to the other communities that are more suitable for it.
I heard someone compare Lemmy to the early days of reddit with less communities that each did more
A: People don't read the sidebar.
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
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