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CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours agoI reject the idea that every meme needs a personal explanation, a lesson, or a long comment thread attached to it. Memes are also casual content. People should be allowed to see something funny, vote, comment if they want, and move on.
I think that in a community that has a special interest, one should be able to explain one’s postings. Because:
If there is a concrete problem with a post, say what it is.
I tried that multiple times. I pointed out mistakes, errors and false information in your memes, but there was literally no reaction. This is the first time I see you reacting to anything.
Calling all frequent sharing “indiscriminate dumping”
That is not what I did though. I said it seems like indiscriminate dumping because you never seemed to bother to engage in discussion, do not deliver context (as it was normal before you started posting), etc. You even copied the title here that doesn’t make sense for this platform. That’s why I call it mindless.
The practical issue is activity. In the latest 24-hour window, this community had 14 posts; I supplied 12 of them.
r/HistoryMemeshad roughly 40 posts in the same window.
What is the context of these numbers though? How many different users made these reddit posts, how many members does the reddit sub has compared to this community, how many comments by how many commentors etc?
When I see a community and almost every post is made by the same user, I am turned away, because that does not speak of a healthy community. It looks like the personal platform of an individual.
When I see a special interest community where almost every post is made by the same user, I do not expect to see meaningful exchange about the topic. Had I come here after you became active, I would not have subscribed.
And if you do not want to be on reddit, don’t be there.
@CyberEgg, a few assumptions in your reply are wrong.
“One should be able to explain one’s postings” - no. I’m not a community organizer and I don’t owe anyone a response on demand. I’m a person sharing memes I find worth sharing, to the degree I have time. I have a family and a life outside here. Not answering a comment is not a failure of duty; it means I didn’t get to it. Every comment does not deserve a reply, and every meme does not deserve a lecture attached.
“It looks like the personal platform of an individual” - to you. Not to everyone. This community has ~2,800 subscribers and ~650 daily active users. People engage with the content the same way no matter who posts it. You don’t speak for the community, and the data doesn’t back “this turns everyone away.”
“What’s the context of the numbers?” - the last 100 posts here came from 15 authors on a ~2,800-subscriber community. r/HistoryMemes has millions of members and produced those 100 posts from 78 authors at ~40–50 posts/day. A community this size does not generate that volume on its own. Someone has to seed the feed, or it’s empty.
Quantify “better.” You’re framing the choice as: one active poster with a live feed, or almost no posts with a dead feed. Today this community gets ~14 posts/day; 12 come from me. Remove my posts and it gets ~2/day. A dead feed is exactly what drives the remaining people back to reddit. Unless you can show that removing my posts increases subscribers or engagement, you are asking for the measurably worse outcome.
And “if you don’t want to be on reddit, don’t be there” doesn’t land - I post here, on the fediverse. That’s the point. What I find telling is that the loudest demand is for less content on a small federated community. I’m not calling you a reddit agent. But if someone wanted to quiet the fediverse and push people back to reddit, demanding an active poster slow down is exactly how they’d do it.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
I don’t know why you make it reddit vs lemmy tbh. I don’t give a flying crap about reddit. I want a nice community with quality content and productive discourse. That is not achieved with mindless postings of everything one find remotely interesting.
You do not need to give a lecture about everything you post. But when everyone’s just guessing what your post refers to and you don’t care to explain, there is no benefit to the community.