• glimse@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Forget about the post fitting the community - the whole community itself doesn’t fit Lemmy. Why are we segregating tweets? I’ll bet the mods here don’t even know why /r/whitepeopletwitter existed in the first place because if they did, they’d know we don’t “need” it here. It’s arguably worse if they don’t know because they’re separating tweets by race for no fucking reason

    Seriously just delete this community and use microblogmemes or whatever. Can’t believe this reddit shit got copied over here.

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      9 months ago

      The practical reason it exists is because a lot of Lemmy users are looking for a replacement to Reddit, so the first thing they do after signing up is try to find communities that match the subreddits they were subscribed to. If you create a community that shares a name with a popular subreddit, you’re more likely to get members to join.

      I agree with you for the record, the racially segregated communities has always been a bit icky and there’s really no need for it on Lemmy.

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        9 months ago

        There was a gold rush to copy every single subreddit over here yet they didn’t copy the reasons they exist or anything that made them special. The fact that nostupidquestions is a general “ask anything” community is a great example.

        So many communities on this site are just uncreative shells filled with archival posts from reddit. I find it both sad and annoying.

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          9 months ago

          This place doesn’t have enough traffic for No Stupid Question to be meaningfully different from Ask Lemmy yet.

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            9 months ago

            It doesn’t have the sidebar rules yet, either. “we’ll narrow it down later” is a weak plan

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              9 months ago

              So is “narrow it down and no one posts anymore” though. Both sides have a fair argument here imo.

      • Match!!@pawb.social
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        9 months ago

        at this point Twitter is so dead that the only good posts are archival anyways. maybe we could have c/TwitterArchives or something

    • Kaspar Houser @feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Just wanted to let you know that I hereby grant you a super like. My thoughts exactly. And well formulated.