It’s not a tech support group FFS!
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, btwThree different Reddit users: This.
Thanks for the gold, kind stranger
Take my updoot.
Need more updoots NEXT!
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 😁
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
I think a lot of people thought there was some sort of money to be made by staking a claim on community names and then having bots fill them with Reddit reposts.
Also the search functions Ive found to be pretty terrible.
As a moderator who did that and stopped, that’s not the case. What it actually was: we didn’t want to go back to Reddit ever again. So, we desperately tried to lift the quality posts and communities from stubborn holdouts to have that quality come with us.
IMO, it was a failure because people were so anti-bot. But that’s why I was taking part in moving everything over from there. I had no financial motives. I was just hoping to 100% boycott Reddit and was looking to draw their communities away from that utterly enshittified platform.
I failed but I haven’t been back to Reddit.
I think it was an overall failure (not blaming you specifically or anything) because it feels forced. The majority of “content” is just reposted memes, there’s no real people to go along with it.
Most Lemmy communities don’t feel like communities. They’re just meme repositories - as if we needed 10 places all hosting the same pictures in a different order
Agreed! Almost every single repost my bot made had like ZERO engagement! 😅
Kind of funny because there’s bound to be lots of tech people here
It’s got a name that doesn’t intuitively indicate its role.
And it has a substantial population as the Fediverse goes.
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.
