this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
175 points (94.0% liked)
General Discussion
12419 readers
49 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy.World General!
This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.
🪆 About Lemmy World
🧭 Finding Communities
Feel free to ask here or over in: [email protected]!
Also keep an eye on:
For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!
💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:
- [email protected] - Note this is for more serious discussions.
- [email protected] - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
- [email protected] - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
- [email protected] - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
- [email protected] - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!
Rules and Policies
Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.
0. See: Rules for Users.
- No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
- Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
- Posts concerning other instances' activity/decisions are better suited to [email protected] or [email protected] communities.
- No Ads/Spamming.
- No NSFW content.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You know what's cool? Sometimes I get responses on my comments from people that clearly just want to have a conversation. I've been conditioned by like buttons and snarky quips for so long that sometimes it takes me a second to stop and realize "oh yeah, I want to have a conversation too! That's why I'm here!". It's pretty neat, and it's something that I've really missed from the old days of the internet (old days? Fuck I'm old and shit). Anyways, I agree with you, we benefit from more meaningful conversations here, and I'm happy to say that I've seen more of them here than anywhere else on the Internet at the moment. There's a forum I'm a member of (thumpertalk.com) that still has pretty good conversations, but mainly only about single cylinder motorcycles. This place has such a wide variety of interest groups that you can start off talking about cats, and end up talking about deep literature. Pretty cool, guys, pretty cool.