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?
I see your point. I guess trying to copy “askreddit” came with its own unexpected baggage. We just don’t see the chaff on reddit because that sub is so established, has automod, etc (or at least the last time I visited regularly before the APIpocalypse)
I wasn’t a regular follower in recent years, so I’m reaching a bit further back, but yeah, I recall a steady flow of people submitting general questions and mods removing them. I’d have probably just treated it like a desire path ([email protected], BTW) — if that’s how people want to walk, maybe just a sign that it’s easier to just build a path there.
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I suppose that there were some changes that could have happened in the move from Reddit.
There was also a collection of people who didn’t want to copy the “*porn” convention from Reddit for attractive-but-non-pornographic pictures of things (that one doesn’t bother me, but I do understand people who are uncomfortable about it and wanted to shelve it in the move). Like, their workplace may not care about people looking at landscape pictures, but gets twitchy about anything remotely porn-related.
There are also some pretty obscure jokes that came from long-ago Reddit drama or jokes that probably make the Threadiverse more-complicated to navigate for people who weren’t in on the joke from years back. Like the “inversion” communities, like trees/MarijuanaEnthusiasists ([email protected] and [email protected]) or worldnews/anime_titties ([email protected] and [email protected], though it looks like eventually, worldnews went back to being actual world news both on Reddit and here). Or /r/superbowl ([email protected]), though I think that that one, at least, someone can figure out if they stumble into it. Might have been a good argument that we should have adopted more-conventional naming. But I think that the bigger concern in the big move was getting things up-and-running, rather than trying to rearchitect everything.