[META] Could people here just FOLLOW THE RULES?
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IMO I believe these types of communities, although entertaining and enlightening, are index farms used by governments to identify users and fingerprint them to their real life identities.
I see far too many generalized questions like, "what is your favorite color" "when you were a kid what was the most famous musician" "where were you the day the towers fell" "what's your favorite brand of cheese" etc...
just sayin, if it's not happening now, it will be one day.
What's your mother's maiden name? What's the street you grew up on? First pet?
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For people asking about alternative communities, we put together a list a while back when closing
[email protected]: https://lemmy.ca/post/48642221“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):
For questions that are more specific to your situation:
Group specific communities:
Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):
I'd like to add [email protected] to that list. it's more neutrally gendered and that's a good thing IMO.
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Here's what the sidebar says: "A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought-provoking questions."
And yet we keep seeing is:
- Is it possible (or difficult) to migrate an entire forum from vanilla to a lemmy instance?
- Is Tom Clancy's daughter trans, or is it a character of his?
- Does anyone have a link for ace attorney 1 full game playthrough?
- Does anyone have suggestions for buying a webcam?
TBC? Most posters do indeed bring it with highly thought-provoking Q's, and I love that. But matey, there must be better places for these Q's, yeah?
This question is neither open ended or thought provoking. QED
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Here's what the sidebar says: "A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought-provoking questions."
And yet we keep seeing is:
- Is it possible (or difficult) to migrate an entire forum from vanilla to a lemmy instance?
- Is Tom Clancy's daughter trans, or is it a character of his?
- Does anyone have a link for ace attorney 1 full game playthrough?
- Does anyone have suggestions for buying a webcam?
TBC? Most posters do indeed bring it with highly thought-provoking Q's, and I love that. But matey, there must be better places for these Q's, yeah?
Well, somebody thought it was smart to block a very generic name like "AskLemmy" and make it a crazy fringe group out of it instead of one fitting the name. Yes, people could read the sidebar, but with a name that suggestive while having a completely counterintuitive use - nothing else should be expected.
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I'd like to add [email protected] to that list. it's more neutrally gendered and that's a good thing IMO.
more neutrally gendered and that’s a good thing IMO.
Why?
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more neutrally gendered and that’s a good thing IMO.
Why?
Because being inclusive is better than exclusive, especially considering the typical sizes of these communities.
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Because being inclusive is better than exclusive, especially considering the typical sizes of these communities.
Because being inclusive is better than exclusive
Why?
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Because being inclusive is better than exclusive
Why?
Because being good is good.
Except wrt you. Ew, gross. -
Here's what the sidebar says: "A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought-provoking questions."
And yet we keep seeing is:
- Is it possible (or difficult) to migrate an entire forum from vanilla to a lemmy instance?
- Is Tom Clancy's daughter trans, or is it a character of his?
- Does anyone have a link for ace attorney 1 full game playthrough?
- Does anyone have suggestions for buying a webcam?
TBC? Most posters do indeed bring it with highly thought-provoking Q's, and I love that. But matey, there must be better places for these Q's, yeah?
[email protected] is a good alternative.
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Cool!
In which case, how should we organise such things across the FV..?Chill out about them I guess.
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Because being good is good.
Except wrt you. Ew, gross.Why is inclusivity good? Are you saying we should, then, create /c/PeoplesStuff to replace /WomensStuff ?
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Why is inclusivity good? Are you saying we should, then, create /c/PeoplesStuff to replace /WomensStuff ?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Eww, why are you still taking?
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Eww, why are you still taking?
Why not? Neither of us have anything better to do with our time, apparently
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Here's what the sidebar says: "A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought-provoking questions."
And yet we keep seeing is:
- Is it possible (or difficult) to migrate an entire forum from vanilla to a lemmy instance?
- Is Tom Clancy's daughter trans, or is it a character of his?
- Does anyone have a link for ace attorney 1 full game playthrough?
- Does anyone have suggestions for buying a webcam?
TBC? Most posters do indeed bring it with highly thought-provoking Q's, and I love that. But matey, there must be better places for these Q's, yeah?
Yeah, so what? This is the natural evolution of online communities. It's a good thing. When the user base is small, we should have a few, non-specific channels/forums/communities/whatevers so that everybody is in the same place to talk to each other. Metaphorically, it's like sustaining a nuclear reaction: The fissile material has to be in close enough proximity so that the radiation (posts and comments) can strike more fissile material (other users) to keep the chain reaction going. In the past, I've criticized the urge to immediately atomize Lemmy into thousands of highly-specific communities, and indeed, most of them have withered away.
Once a particular topic starts to dominate a community, once it's reached critical mass, then it's time to fork it off into its own community. I don't think that's happened to [email protected] yet.
