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[–] May@kbin.social 102 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When someone would ask a good question that you also wanna know the answer to, but then all the "answers" were just jokes bc everyone wanna get upvotes. I dont really mind jokes but those times it was a bit sad, then sometimes no one would answer for real bc i guess they see 10 replies and assume surely one of them is real already.

Also repost bots.

And apple vs samsung feuds.

And sometimes looked like whenever some people try to organize action or protests, comments just spamming that "protests do nothing" or "voting does nothing," or "what is this gonna do," not suggesting any other solution either, almost like trying to encourage apathy? Or discourage action. Sometimes i wondered if those were bots.

Also the r/wooosh when someone didn't understand a joke. .-.

[–] GenBlob@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing enrages me more when you have a very specific problem and the only result is a reddit thread that's filled with jokes, irrelevant information, and no solution.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only think worse than no solution is the "I found the solution on my own, thank you guys" and than they don't tell you the solution.

[–] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I find them kind of fun, as long as it is actually relevant. Which it was in this case.

[–] AdminWorker@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want users to be able to flag comments as "jokes" or "serious" on lemmy, so it is easy to sort by relevant comment thread. Especially inside jokes.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, that would be great, then people who hate them could hide them.

[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Holy hell I absolutely hated seeing an interesting post or something an expert could chime in on to explain only for the entire comment section to be flooded with YouTube comments tier jokes

[–] EldritchSpellingBee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Comprehension skills are severely lacking in a significant number of Americans. We know it based on the typical adult American reading level being so pathetically low. We know it from the interactions we see and have online with other Americans.

I firmly believe that comprehension gap is why people go hunting for perceived slights. Everywhere they turn is an opportunity for a new fight.

And it seems even worse with teens if we take Tiktok into account. The adults there aren't much better. It is all really an indictment of the American education system.

Lemmy's few hurdles are seemingly enough to keep these people out (for the most part). There also isn't the critical mass of people to spark that mob mentality, at least that's how I feel about it. People here are mostly chill overall and it truly reminds me of Reddit 15+ years ago.

That is inevitably going to change, for the worse, as apps refine the sign up and usage processes. That is inevitably going to change as bad actors, like Meta, are allowed to federate and push their low quality into our spaces along with advertisements disguised as posts and comments. We all know this is going to happen; threads will be used to run influence campaigns. That's what happens with all of their properties, and with Reddit.

And people influential in Lemmy are signing NDAs with bad actors to allow it to happen.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

As an American that isn't completely stupid, I actually believe many number of American grammar Nazis have morphed into literal Nazis.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

As an American that isn't completely stupid, I actually believe many number of American grammar Nazis have morphed into literal Nazis.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

As an American that isn't completely stupid, I actually believe many number of American grammar Nazis have morphed into literal Nazis.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

As an American that isn't completely stupid, I actually believe many number of American grammar Nazis have morphed into literal Nazis.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

As an American that isn't completely stupid, I actually believe many number of American grammar Nazis have morphed into literal Nazis.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

As an American that isn't completely stupid, I actually believe many number of American grammar Nazis have morphed into literal Nazis.