• qyron@sopuli.xyz
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        11 days ago

        So many questions in my mind…

        If:

        • Shit

        As in literal shit, no, and lets try to keep it that way.

        • Shit

        As nohing of quality, that is absent everywhere. Go read a book, you’re better off. Support an online archive while you are at it. Save ebooks and other cultural media in an offline support and share ot with others

        • Shit

        As an indication of quantity, I disagree. There is plenty of shit to scroll through and pilling higher every second.

        • Shit

        As in all of the above… where can you even find that?

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              10 days ago

              I like !tenforward@lemmy.world and the newly created !lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com, both often feature OC - not exclusively but being kinda known for a preference and offering of such. Maybe !starwarsmemes@lemmy.world too, but it’s far less active.

              But if people want to offer content, they will. Except often the environment is not welcoming, so it’s a bit of a cache-22 needing solid moderation first, but needing solid content even first-er, which leads to super power mods who know how having to do most of the mod work.

              It’s not easy, but we do seem to be growing, even as it looks like from the count of actual people we’re probably shrinking just a tiny bit, though those here are more active. Mostly in comments rather than posts.

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                  9 days ago

                  Except, again, I see so many people commenting that they don’t want to post content, for fear of the feedback that they will get. You cannot force people to do something against their will.

                  And content creators in particular are a special breed: they don’t care as much about using Arch Linux btw, or perhaps politics, so much as reaching a wider audience. And we are not very tolerant here to outsiders POV (go visit lemmy.ml without a logged-in account and tell me what you see there on the front page or two? its default sort is Local btw, so don’t change that -> this is what newcomers seem to most often see, as that is the #1 instance recommendation by a Google search, not DDG but Google, as in what a mainstream normie would use; tbf the anti-Western world barrage might have calmed down since the elections?).

                  Particularly the downvote barraging - I’ve posted literal award-winning content that gets as many downvotes as upvotes, by people who seemed to not know what was being offered. Oh well. Once a post is made, we can and often do have nice conversations here, but we just as often have conversations with trolls. We are not terribly welcoming. Especially hexbear.

                  But take another look at those communities I mentioned - often those are OC. Not always, but sometimes.