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I’m not a fan of the pun chains that somehow always ended up at the top of any Reddit comment thread

There could be a post about electricity and one of the top threads will have a joke about Watts, amps, shock, resistance, ohms, and other electric terms. The least they could have done is use Siemens, but it’s always basic wordplay that anyone can think of

And the worst part is that pun threads can be found any post regardless of the gravity of the situation. Titty post? Puns. Mundane news? Puns. A post of an innocent person being wrongly executed by electrocution? Puns.

Everyone thinks they are/wants to be a comedian, and they’d rather post a low quality joke than to add to the discussion or not say anything at all

The whole “Let’s not poop for 72 hours” meme from Lemmy is easily Reddit tier dumb humor and it’s been beaten to death over the last few days.

The in jokes and general comment culture on Reddit was one of my favourite parts. Usually made me laugh, some really good ones would make me laugh to the point of tears. I think that in jokes are a symptom of community.

I also choose this site's dead in-jokes

"Damn, onion cutting ninjas in here again!"

this guy kbins

Reading /world news yesterday was quite sobering if I had any thoughts about going back to reddit.

Suddenly, calling a man Pringles was the height of humor and almost 0 informed discussion happening in the megathread and the people who were being serious kept getting drowned out by Pringles jokes.

I also want to see This and This is the way die a fiery death. So annoying. It seemed like no one could think for themselves on Reddit.

It's inevitable really. Once the site grows, the number of people who think their funny will too. The best thing your can do is dislike it and ignore.

It's already here and it's going to increase. It is what it is.

It seems like you're in the wrong Fediverse instance. I think beehaw makes an attempt to keep it serious and on point, with more moderation.

Also try tildes, which has a very interesting voting system where you can attach a tag to your upvotes or downvotes, such as 'noise' or 'off topic' or 'joke', and overall vote score gets reduced - not sure exactly how it works. (Tildes is not part of the Fediverse though, if I recall, it's stand alone site like reddit.)

Both those may be invite only.

On reddit there is a subreddit of r/WorldNews called r/WorldNews_Serious which moderates out the jokes and trivial discussion, so look out for those communities to popup in the Fediverse.

I don't mind jokes, even the bad ones - it shows these people are at least cheerful and upbeat even with the world not doing so great atm. If you think the joke is lame, that's what the downvote is for, so use it would be my advice.

Oh c'mon, the narwhal baconing at midnight is a treasure to humanity! How could you not want that?!
/s

I liked Reddit much more 10 years ago when it was smaller. Less of a hive mind echo. I keep federation turned off to enjoy the smaller kbin community. It looks like the majority went to Lemmy and I am just fine with that.

Don't worry, they're going to Lemmy world instead. Oh shit we're federated...

A truly unpoopular opinion.

too late

Probably an unpopular opinion in this thread, but I think the puns and in-jokes are what makes a community a community. It can get repetitive and annoying sometimes, but I usually get a chuckle out of them before I move on to the relevant content.