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[–] c0mbatbag3l 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe if every community wasn't just another Linux memes community we wouldn't have lost all of the users.

Told you guys this shit was gonna happen.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are plenty of other communities people made, just most didn't become very active. If the Linux memes are everywhere, it's because those are the people actually active here

[–] c0mbatbag3l 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not that they're not active, it's that every single thread on every single community devolves into linux discussions even if the community isn't in any way supposed to be about Linux.

Also the ones that aren't active aren't active because everyone realized lemmy only caters to like three interests.

We need better moderation so that the communities which are supposed to be about Linux are, and the ones that aren't don't get flooded with it. That way newcomers won't feel like they have no place here unless they're an anti-car, vegan, FOSS user.

If this doesn't happen, lemmy will slowly die and people will have to go to other places like Tildes or back to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I don't think I've noticed this. Things devolving into political discussions, sure, but that's par for the course with social media I imagine. I had assumed you meant the prevalence of Linux stuff on the all feed.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No I mean the prevalence of Linux on c/memes, on c/mildlyinfuriating, c/programmerhumor, anywhere but Linux and Linux memes which are specifically designated for that content.

If you haven't seen it on the comments of every possible thread you're either wearing blinders or willfully ignorant. You can't go three comments down on a single post anywhere without someone mentioning Linux and then the whole thread is Linux from there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would fully expect Linux content on any community dedicated to technology (i.e. programmerhumor); the rest is totally understandable. Though, I have to agree with @CarbonIceDragon, I really don't see as much Linux content as you seem to - granted I use kbin, not lemmy.

I've read that Lemmy is a bit more personally curated than kbin, is it possible you've just accidentally built yourself a Linux bubble?

[–] c0mbatbag3l 0 points 1 year ago

Fair enough on programmer humor, but no I don't think I've built any kind of bubble. I only subscribe to those two aforementioned Linux communities, everything else is just bleed over. My feed is pretty well rounded to match what I had going on over at reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Idea: Join me on [email protected] and help me post more Linux-free train and railway news?

[email protected] auf Deutsch!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmm but what kind of software do these trains run on? Allow me to take a moment and explain how switching these operations to Linux could increase schedule reliability while minimizing expenses.

(/s, if needed.. I hope your community grows!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I'd heard they were serving WINE on some trains... (suspicious look)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dunno if this is default lemmy behavior but you can filter keywords on Voyager (and I'm sure other clients).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah reddit spring user here, I kinda agree. Not that I mind them but there is an awful lot of 'LOL WINDOWS NORMIES LOL' and 'JOKE ABOUT HOW HARD THIS LINUX IS.' is like... allot of the jokes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A lot of the problems with Linux are the same problems Lemmy has, so it's a really good point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

[–] Aggravationstation 6 points 1 year ago

Personally I only worship Saint IGNUcius https://stallman.org/saint.html 1000011224

Oh and Satan, I also worship Satan.

[–] c0mbatbag3l 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Linux, I just hate Linux users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I bet you're a filthy systemd heretic!