Sorry, no link to some ‘news’ article. /s
I’m a newcomer myself, but it seems my feed is just filled with low-effort news links with no other content. It’s c/mildlyinfuriating at this point. Maybe moderators outside of communities that are specifically for current events could require at least an effort by the op to add some of her own thoughts?
Did you expect something else from a link aggregator?
Yes. Reddit would not be what it is were it not for discussion.
The discussion is in the comments. It’s even a meme that no one reads the article before commenting.
A LOT of posts, even some with 30 or 50 upvotes have no comments…
Some of the best parts (also the worst parts) of reddit were comment threads.
Isn’t it a link aggregation site? I feel like that’s the point…
There are definitely communities that focus on that, though. I know I personally enjoy the local text posts and comment interactions as it reminds me of the good old days of browsing vBulletin forms all day, but lemmy is kind of a different beast in a lot of ways
In “link aggregator” you have the word… “link”. Also, how about you try to be the change you want to see?
Uh what? I just posted actual original content, that being the change I’d like to see.
Why are people claiming that Lemmy is just a ‘link aggregator’? It doesn’t have to be.
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I have 5 invite if someone wants
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If you want more than just news, https://lemmy.world/post/2216085 I made a list of more casual Lemmy communities.
You’re right though - it would be nice to have some discussion based news communities. R/geopolitics used to be very high quality for example
The other comment responses are just lazy, link aggregators do not need to be devoid of worthwhile discussions
Fantastic list, thank you for sharing
Repost bots (which repost contents from other sites) might be to blame for a lot of this. Or the fact that, because there are loads of (for example) World News communities, people will post the same links on multiple communities, but most people will only comment on one of the submissions. Which pushes the link-to-comment ratio up.
Beyond that, it really depends on the community I think. I see far more of that when browsing All than when browsing Subscribed.
Try blocking the repost bots. It helps.
I tend to agree. To me just a link to an article without any other input is just spam. I don’t see the point in just being the comments section for someone else’s site and content.
Most people don’t seem to agree, but at least for the community I moderate I try to avoid it myself. I won’t stop anyone else from doing it though.
