• @MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    481 year ago

    Stumble across an interesting community that’s been dormant for a few months

    Decide to try making my own post there to see if others will follow and get the community going again

    Get immediately downvoted by the subscribers who haven’t posted anything for 6 months and yelled at for posting something that’s not exactly what they wanted to see there, even though it clearly fits the rules

    Make a few more posts in hopes of winning someone over then give up because people are being dicks or just not engaging at all

    Eventually give up and watch the community die again

    This has happened to me several times since I started using Lemmy lol

    • @t0fr@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Which communities?

      I’ve tried posting in metalcore, dnb, and phonk and the users don’t get mad at me or anything but there’s just not that much engagement.

    • Post food in food porn. Gets ridiculed because my food is an abomination and should not be called by the foods name. See others post butchered regional food that i definitely know the locals will not recognize as that food. That post gets praised for putting an effort. WTF?

      • Abird
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        11 year ago

        Is it really that in depth? I mean good looking food is what I’m there for.

        • What I expected was food appreciation no matter how it looks or how it strays from the traditional recipe. But what I got was someone telling me that what I posted was not a traditional food yet I’m seeing other non tradional food getting praised.

          I simply want food appreciation not food gatekeeping.

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      111 year ago

      Honestly, just keep posting. You’ll bend them or they’ll start posting their own interests.

  • ElTacoEsMiPastor
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    1 year ago

    being flooded with links with clickbait-y titles. back in may more posts were organic.

    edit: what communities have good content made by users? i seldom find intriguing discussion on comments, but few posts are engaging on their own.

  • mozz
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    One person saying actually I agree with you on that, and the other person saying NO YOU DON’T YOU’RE CLEARLY A MONSTER AND YOU MUST THINK TERRIBLE THINGS

    • @krashmo@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      That’s just how people are now. I don’t think it’s specific to Lemmy or even the internet. Most people don’t know how to have a discussion where lines are more blurry than a formal debate that has two opposing sides with completely separate, non-overlapping ideas.

    • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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      131 year ago

      I think that’s the 196 community. One of the rules is that if you show up, you have to post something, so my understanding is that people just put “rule” in the title to say that they’re complying with that rule.

      • one specific community, primarily one one instance. The concept of “rule” originates on r/196, where the only rule is that you have to post when you visit.

        Therefore, its easiest to write “posting because rule” in the title rather than something creative. AFAIK this eventually devolved into just saying “Rule” or some sort of play on it.

        • Beanson
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          11 year ago

          At this point it’s almost a rule in itself that the title has rule in it in some way so there are many plays on the word but that’s not official it’s more of a community driven joke. It also came from the original 196 community on reddit.

  • MxM111
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    11 year ago

    People forgetting that it is not lemmy, but federation.
    /posting from kbin

  • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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    581 year ago

    The answer to damn near every question being “the complete tear down and rebuilding of society as we know it”