Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.

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    I am on Lemmy (here and a few other instances) but when I get into discussions in comments here I am starting to wonder if I should just quit the whole social media concept altogether. So far I have mostly stayed since I still need to get some news from somewhere but RSS might be a better option in the long run.

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            I’ve been called a centrist because I called for socialized healthcare, cheaper education, higher taxes on the rich, and putting the needs of people above the desires of the companies.

            Apparently that’s not liberal enough for a lot of users.

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            Ehm. I think you should visit other communities then. And skip the instances filled by trolls and those people. I’ve had a different experience here on Lemmy.

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          I mean that’s fair, but this comes with a low populated community. Hopefully it will change for the better.

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          You made 38 comments in two months yourself, so… Maybe contribute?

          I don’t mean to upset you, but honestly, we get the experience we create here. We can’t be passive and expect others to create interesting content for us.

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            Tbf the user you responded to neither complained nor claimed to expect anything from anyone. They simply stated a pretty spot on observation.

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              Ok sure. But my point is, we really get what we create here. People shouldn’t complain about not much posts or comments if they don’t contribute to them themselves.

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                Idk. Some people have the motto, only speak up if you’re sure you have anything of value to say. I think that’s okay, too. Many people spam their opinion everywhere. Or just write low-quality comments that don’t really contribute. It makes it more content, but mainly more noise. And that’s not necessarily a good thing.

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                  I’ve gone back and forth on this. I figure as long as there’s a comment they’ll view it and then maybe leave a higher quality one of their own.

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                  Sure. Memes is one thing I see a lot on Lemmy, and I unsubscribed to some communities because it just took over. To me that’s low quality, but to others it could be the best content ever.

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                    Yeah, I’ve heard several people complain about the meme communities. There are a few that post lots of stuff and overshadow the real stuff. If you don’t happen to find out how to do it, I can understand why you’d be annoyed and not join Lemmy.

                    But I was talking more about low quality content like writing a cheap joke that is very obvious. Or being the 10th person to just agree in slightly different words instead of upvoting the first comment. Or having meaningless arguments. I kinda do all of that. But it’s more a social media thing and wasted time, than something advancing society or my own life.

                    And some other people just write 5 comments a month in topics they really know something about, and use their spare time to read the remaining Terry Pratchett novels instead.

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        The average discussion is fine, mostly I don’t like how certain kinds of comments make me want to respond over and over again with certain people while we are going in circle, neither convincing the other.

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          That’s understandable, but we don’t need to always convince the other one or ourselves. It’s perfectly okay to just get more knowledgable and that’s it.

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      I’ve been ramping up my RSS feed collection constantly just to see that the majority of trustworthy sites are paywalled by now. I’d love to see some sort of “Netflix for news” (i.e. one subscription, multiple sources) but that’s yet to come, I’m afraid.

      Maybe if feedly pro were to implement (ai generated) summaries of my favorite sources, I’d be willing to subscribe there.

      Until then, I’ve grown a taste for podcasts. Those are mostly free with large overlap in content I’d have to pay for for if I read it myself. Kinda funny…

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      I’m trying (and mostly(?) failing) to transfer the energy/thought into Arch/Programming (check my instance)

      Social media/Doomscrolling is just so utterly easy