Just need the people complaining about people complaining post followed by a rule baning complaining about people. Then we can get the golden meta post of complaining about the rule stopping you from complaining about people.

When do we get to complain that some people here didn't like something before, but some people now like that thing? Surely soon.

Definitely! We have our own social network, with baccarat and masseuses!

first new inside joke: and nauseam 💀

yeah but it's charming when we do it

Oh no. I was hoping to not have to see another 'bacons at midnight' type of post within my lifetime.

Agreed, it's gonna get so annoying hearing these jokes and nauseam though.

…With blackjack and hookers!

Sounds like a good AI feature for a Lemmy client app. "✅ I don't want to see comments that only contain a pun."

Username checks out.

I wouldn’t expect the same behaviour/rules/culture in a shit posting community compared to an arch linux community

What's the difference?

I think that stuff like that developed when the userbase was pretty young. Don't think something like that will happen again.

At least I hope not...

I remember cackling at the narwhal nonsense ~15 years ago. Definitely makes me feel old thinking back to those days.

do you remember when they tried to make Millhouse a meme

...nice

It really is fascinating though, having a front row seat to what really is a massive tectonic shift in the history of the internet. Real curious to see how this all plays out. I've been online since the early 90's so I've seen tons come and go: AOL, yahoo, slashdot, livejournal, myspace, digg, etc, and this one feels different for some reason, but maybe its just me.

That's crazy, we shouldn't even allow anyone here unless they had at least 1,000 karma on Reddit.

This has been my internal dialog for a while now.

I hated reddit and everybody who used it

totes agree on that ish

the dumb shit is what makes it feel like a community or friends getting together. if its not that its a college message board for assignments

The relationship advice threads were the weirdest. Someone would post a question like "my wife is sleeping over at her male coworkers place a lot and stopped coming home, should I be worried" and all the answers would be saying they're just jealous and too controlling.

Let Lemmy grow. Growth and low effort pun threads is not what killed reddit. Corporate interference and shit stirring controversy spewing algorithms in the name of "user engagement" is what drove reddit down the drain.

The way it is right now, we don't have total "karma", which I imagine helps to at least suppress the purely karma-farming spam. That said, there's no real reason to think it won't be added here eventually.

I am still learning Lemmy, but I agree with you from what I am seeing. There is no “karma farming” here right? So the motivation is mostly people who want to engage?

Yeah, I was thinking of having some sort of feature that pre-builds thread topics in a post (humor, discussion, cross-searching) where users can put there comments in depending on what it is they're going for.

Agreed. I think for now it's up to each community owner to set the expectations for their community and for the mods to enforce it. And so like Twitter...the quality of your feed will be dictated by whom you follow or in Lemmy's case which communities you join.

...and my axe!

am i doing this right?

I loved the joke threads. People continuing a reference or pun or joke was just a harmless, fun time.

And don't forget about the song threads!

Unfortunately it's just something I think we're going to have to deal with no matter where you go. Even forums with higher quality users still have lame jokes and puns thrown around.

As a Rexxitor, I second this entirely.

I believe the response you’re looking for is “Well that’s, like, your opinion… man”

I would, but I broke both my arms.

Wow, that's a clever little algorithm. It feels like it could work better.

Reddit's big problem (among many) was you had to get in early on a thread to contribute. Otherwise you could be so far at the bottom you might as well have sent your reply to the bit bucket.

I feel like there is a potential but minor problem with Lemmy's algorithm. It favors new comments but what if the post itself is asking a question with a definitive answer? The best answers might get buried by side discussion as time goes on.

I'm fine with a horribly distasteful comment, but for the love of God make it a unique horribly distasteful comment.

Same. I like it, but it belongs in more shitposty communities IMO. I like a small percentage of my feed to be shitposts, and when I dig into it it's just people repeating twists on the same stupid jokes.

Sometimes it's actually clever, a lot of the time it's just people wanting reassurance they belong.

It's annoying when it overflows and floods everywhere with the exact same joke (like Google en passant). In r/anarchychess they were constantly workshopping new jokes, because it definitely got old

@bizzwell some subreddits did have some dedicated flairs which required everyone to be serious (at the cost of being banned) - but this required the OP to deliberately think about posting the stuff under the right flair.

Maybe this could be also easily enforced here by asking people to append [Serious Discussion] at the beginning of each relevant post, on the title or content?

@win95

Yeah, and you can just fold the first comment in the chain and the whole chain disappears as well, so it's not like it's that much in the way either.

I think this is an excellent point (re: server overhead) and one I hadn't considered. Thanks for sharing that.

I want to echo what dialectic cake said. I had not considered this at all and it's such a good thing to keep in mind. Thanks for edifying me!

Holy hell

I spent an unhealthy amount of time on reddit over nearly the last decade, and somehow this is the first time seeing that phrase. I actually had to just google “google en passant” to figure out what you’re talking about. I’m still not sure I understand the meme, and I’m certain Ive never seen it, or at least never paid attention to it if I did. Yet it must be common because at least two people bring it up in this thread. Crazy how that works.

This

Edit: thanks for the gold kind strangeerrr

That's why I'm starting my own instance! With blackjack! And hookers!

and nothing makes you feel part of something as finally getting an inside joke.

how much yum could a yucking yum if a yuck yuck could yuck yum

Ahh, the old lemmyroo...

I also choose this guy's wife.

Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!!!

New response just dropped, call an exorcist

Hey Google, I'm a pissant.

There's a noticeable generation gap between people who use 1!1!1! and the ones who would say sO MuCh tHiS! I'm not sure when it happened but I'm gonna guess you are about 35?

https://media.giphy.com/...

@msprout happy cake day!

@win95

I've been hoping most of those users are only here temporarily following the bandwagon/circle-jerking, and that they go back to reddit for the comments of nothing but lame puns and off-topic jokes.

I was really hoping to escape that migrating here. The comments of nearly every reddit thread just devolves into r/funny or r/adviceanimals. Distinct subreddits mean less and less, and off-topic content is upvoted in every sub just because it illicits a cheap laugh.

Reddit is less and less a place for substantive discussion and more just a dumping grounds of repetitive lame jokes. I really hope the children stay on reddit...

I think around noon.

If you have to ask, you're streets behind.

When that old chatbot punches you in the taint. I forget what it was called but I loved that it responded to the bacon narwhal comment with that.

I'm not sure it's even possible to contain some of the tropes. I still occasionally see people posting "first" on YouTube and similar, and that's a Slashdot troll meme from more than 20 years ago.

To complicate things, you may also get different behaviour in different communities by the same user.

I think it's really at the community level that culture can be formed as at the all post level, we all just have our different preferences and that's fine. Also, our preferences may changed based on what we want/need in a day, e.g., one day we may want jokes while another day we may want tech support.

And so at the community level, community owner Bob may want no low-effort posts so he can put that into the rules, the mods can enforce that (be removing low-effort posts), the community can enforce it by only upvoting high-effort posts, and then a culture is formed which will draw other people who are into that.

And likewise the same for other culture/expectations.

I am really worried it will be an uphill battle. I see two things happening 1) We all exodus here and ruin this place. 2) Nobody cares and just leaves Reddit doing what it wants. Sadly neither are great outcomes, and yes I know I am cynical.

Nice

OMG, you said the sex number.

yes, but we can roll for dubs / trips / etc!

holy hell

A punishment you say?

Bad idea to jump from proprietary platform 1 to proprietary platform 2

with a community as big as reddit, the only way to make yourself heard is to be among the top few comments on each thread.

It gets tiring writing 10 lengthy, well thought-out replies for 10 different threads, only for 9 of them to fall off the radar and get no responses. So you get people spamming low-effort puns in order to get noticed.

Holy hell

That has been literally all internet humor since the dawn if the internet.

All your base are belong to us, nyancat, GGG, advice animals, roflcopter, it's a trap, badger mushroom, everything.

Internet humor literally relies on enough regurgitation to be a huge inside joke.

I mean, before that it was pretty much "I hate my wife" humor and dirty jokes for half of a century,, so even if the dead horse is being made into applesauce, it still might be a step up.

No it isn't. They were wearing diapers when Redditors were making "This guy X" jokes or broken arms jokes, or pun chains ad nauseam. Stop making this another example of "It's those darn kids" when every generation is guilty of being corny as fuck.

I don't think it's just zoomers. One of the most annoying things that older generations do is quote movies and old commercials for no reason. Don't forget "whassuuuuuuuuuup"

I've had countless millennials quote star wars, mean girls, napoleon dynamite, the godfather, and you don't even want to know how many shitty joker impressions i've heard.

I think it's just a human thing to do and if you weren't there, it's kinda cringe and not funny.

That being said, I always found the reddit comments annoying asf lmao