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(WEEKLY / CMV) I should close this community (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No, it's not a joke. I'm frustrated and I'm probably not choosing my words carefully.

This community has had steadily falling engagement - our last 3 weekly threads have had a grand total of 1 (excellent and well-articulated) response, and the number of topics not generated by myself (or the other mod) since the inception of the community has also been 1.

Very few people want to actually talk. From what I've seen, the masses want the same things that they wanted on Reddit:

Memes
Articles they don't read (but will bitch about endlessly) that reinforce their opinion
Angry responses to someone (who may be trolling) that reinforce the current politics of the reader (that they couldn't have given a fuck about a few years ago until it became heavily politicized)
Shitty easy jokes
Personal politics circlejerking

I hate that I can see a hundredth point-free meme post and view 200 replies on it. I hate that it's just the same talking points being strawmanned over and over again in every thread. I hate that any point outside common groupthink is downvoted to oblivion and buried instead of discussed.

The reason I'd like to back away from Lemmy seems to be the same reason I started this community: we need more people who can articulate points, and less downvoting, but it doesn't seem to be getting better.

Maybe one day, but today is not that day. Lemmy needs to mature in more ways than one.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are closing this community. I didn't contribute as much as I would like to (busy myself animating other communities, and real life stuff too). Do you want to try advertising this community once more to larger communities like [email protected] ? Maybe that could help getting better people on board.

Also, you might want to have a look at https://tildes.net/ . This website is heavily focused on discussion, so maybe the issue you have is that people that could be interested in your community are already there