Dissenting opinion, I’m sure, but I see in Lemmy the same problems I saw with reddit at the time I left it: superficial content designed to generate superficial engagement driven by people on mobile devices. Lemmy, reddit, and virtually all other content aggregators fall into the same pattern of posting screenshots from Twitter and recycled memes that everyone’s seen. It’s like the author of the article says: the internet isn’t as interactive or novel as it used to be. Part of that is the centralization of media into a handful of supergiant corporations, but it’s also an extension of the technological landscape and how people today interact with the media they consume. Which as time goes on is more and more driven by mobile devices.
Dissenting opinion, I’m sure, but I see in Lemmy the same problems I saw with reddit at the time I left it: superficial content designed to generate superficial engagement driven by people on mobile devices. Lemmy, reddit, and virtually all other content aggregators fall into the same pattern of posting screenshots from Twitter and recycled memes that everyone’s seen. It’s like the author of the article says: the internet isn’t as interactive or novel as it used to be. Part of that is the centralization of media into a handful of supergiant corporations, but it’s also an extension of the technological landscape and how people today interact with the media they consume. Which as time goes on is more and more driven by mobile devices.
I like all the dad-level humor with the awful, often punny Star Trek memes. They give me life.
Live long and prosper is the opposite of live fast, die young.
/c/risa is family.
Blocking some of the meme communities is a big help in that regard.
I can see the need for a community that requires more from a poster than just dumping a link with a title.
On tumblr they’re writing fanfics about clowns breeds as if they’re pets. I mean come on.
But I wonder if that blogging style, adding stuff that makes oneself look complex and interesting, is what originally inspires those complex posts.