It's either memes, Linux (or memes about Linux), or this or that type of politics. Lots of bot-generated content, too many American-based sports teams; lots of repeating topic content (e.g. shitload of musk, trump/biden/whatever), lots of community and/or news duplicates. I won't be lying I've seen like 5 reposts of some amd threadripper news in my active feed within 10 pages.

Sometimes I know that engaging into a small comment will yield zero replies, and other times I feel like the response will most likely be frustrating. What I valued about reddit is diverse topic discussions, interesting questions and fun reads. But people seem to have more fun bypassing my anti-politics filters in-between porn. I honestly think we need to revive many communities related to questions, interesting topics, and overall "lets-have-a-chat-on-something" (preferably not related to what I mentioned above, or at least that touches a broader audience).

Do I contribute a lot? Am I the one to tell people what to do? I don't think so, but when I have a will to create some content, that will is usually cut off by zero-to-none expected engagement from other people. People wanna do what they wanna do, I guess. I don't blame em.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I won't be lying I've seen like 5 reposts of some amd threadripper news in my active feed within 10 pages.

It's true and one of the pitfalls of the de-centralized model. As a poster I try to crosspost the same link across servers to multiple communities big and small, as a way for people to "discover" niche communities.

I'm in full agreement on how there should be more laid back "chat about something" content. You might interested in having a look at https://beehaw.org (not federated with LW or SJW), that has !chat@beehaw.org and that server might be more your speed, I personally like it a lot. Bee sure to read and follow the spirit of the server rules.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I honestly think we need to revive many communities related to questions, interesting topics, and overall “lets-have-a-chat-on-something” (preferably not related to what I mentioned above, or at least that touches a broader audience).

Have you subbed to the various AskLemmy/Ask[instance]/NoStupidQuestions/Out of the Loop communities across here?

To my own amusement, I found sh.itjust.works has several question communities that I tossed some posts to here & there.

Think they were:

!askshit@sh.itjust.works
!randomquestions@sh.itjust.works

And of course, the obligatory:
!asklemmy@sh.itjust.works

But besides those and the big AskLemmy communities on World and Lemmy.ml, there's:

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
!nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

!outoftheloop@lemmy.world

Also although I haven't sorted out what I might want to post in them, there's these chat communities for other discussing other topics besides those you highlight getting plenty enough discussion:

!casualconversation@lemmy.world
!chatter@lemmy.ca
!chat@beehaw.org
!general@lemmy.world

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My god, the amount of Trump shit I see on here is insane. I despise the cunt, but god damn do I really need to scroll past like 15 posts a day about the shit stain? Even on Reddit they didn't suck his cheeto dick so much