No, askreddit is the reddit version of asklemmy.
Yes. Although on AskReddit, this question would’ve been removed by the automod because it’s technically a yes or no question.
sir, this is a burger king.
Could I get a large whopper meal?
You got eighteen bucks?
no
Yes
That’s it boys, let’s pack it up!
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In theory yes, although the moderation is pretty lacking. So people use it as tech support, ideological rants, yes/no questions, support with actually using Lemmy, DAE, and all other manner of stuff that theoretically doesn’t fit on here, and which is often low effort and doesn’t prompt much discussion.
At least we don’t get the hourly “What’s the sexest sex you’ve ever sexed” question from someone who’s horny on the internet for their first time.
So it’s better
theoretically doesn’t fit on here,
According to what theory?
the theory of Utopian Tightwaddery
The fewer options people have to do the wrong thing, the better everything becomes. Eventually, (in theory), we’ll get to a world where all you do is press a big green button and get a shiny sticker each day.
Even though there is already a !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world and a !doesanybodyelse@lemm.ee This c/ is still quite small, and doesn’t get saturated with questions which belong elsewhere. Somehow splitting the content over 3 communities also get them way more empty than a big active one.
We’re still far from the magic reload button we have on that other website which every minutes would see tons of new post.
It’s also fun to let the user interpret what sort of question they want to ask. Sometimes it’s fun when people do unexpected things.
What’s DAE?
“Does anyone else… (have trouble finishing video games/use their toenail clippings to add texture to a pot of chili/etc.)?”
Just to add, on Reddit it was segregated away from askreddit pretty early on in the site’s life because it was realized that there’s not much useful discussion that can come off a question structured in that way. Better to ask something like “do you do X? Why or why not”. DAE is mostly just people seeking approval.
Good, let’s keep it that way. Lack of freedom of speech is what has made that 3rd Reich of Reddit impossible to use.
Nah. Not enough sex questions.
Have you sexed the sex?
But like… in a sexy way?
I hit that… sexually
Well, AskRedditAfterDark was actually a surprisingly wholesome and awesome community that I miss… I don’t think we’ve got enough folks to build something similar, though.
It’s called “Ask Lemmy”, so no… It’s about lawnmower maintenance.
Nope. That’s over at !asklemmy@lemmy.world. This is the Lemmy version of askMarxists
everything to the left of monarchism = Marxism, apparently
though I’ll agree with you that the rabid anticommunism on .world will definitely help Redditors feel at home
Case in point.
It is one version, yes, I subscribe to asklemmy on both lemmy.ml and lemmy.world
Yea - the thing is that it’s called “AskLemmy” when really the whole Fediverse can access the community. I feel like it would’ve been better suited to call it “AskFedi” or something else. In general it doesn’t really make sense to use the software as the name for stuff.
People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.
EDIT: Curious why people are down voting, anyone care to explain their perspective on this?
That’s a good point, even the platforms may change over time (either by name, or entire projects migrating).
People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.
Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet. I expect that to change over time though
Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet
I mean, kinda? But it federates well enough I would say. I regularly see Mastodon or kbin users and I feel it’s not fair to those users to refer to the spaces on Lemmy instances as “lemmy”. And as you note, it’s short sighted - Lemmy might not be around in 10 years and some other implementation might take over.
But tbf I’m not sure exactly what the federation problems are right now. I’m not sure how Lemmy could federate better (if at all).
This is part of the reason I went with feddit.dk and not lemmy.dk.
Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.
Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are
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Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)
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Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds
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I will always call this type of discussion forum “reddit”. This format, with upvotes, downvotes, nested replies, and collapsible descendants, is reddit
