Hi there,
I’m sure you’ve seen me around, as I’ve been here for quite while. I enjoyed and saw how this site grew, etc, but what I enjoyed was the genuine topics and conversation of discussions about this site. Perhaps it is the reintegration of life and routine, away from Covid, but I’ve noticed a decline in quality that makes me reminiscent and nostalgic for the past and even for members like LiberalSocialist.
You used to have something to say, regularly.
Chapochat/Hexbear wasn’t just recycled memes and images from r/thedeprogram or r/trueanon.
There are still interesting things and conversations that are posted but they’ve been drowned out by pages of mediocre images that substitute picture and image for discussion and introspection; as another poster once typed, paraphrasing, we’re all just trying to create site taglines and phrases and substituting quips for insight and catharsis.
Fair enough that catharsis, solidarity, and revelation can only be achieved through living your life and not through quiet meditation and discussion on reddit or psuedo-reddits. But there was at least more frequency of effort posts, venting, and exegesis of history, current and social events, and understanding of the world or at least an effort to do so.
To my observation, such that I lurk here, Such effort is only spared on video games. On media. On the dunk_tank. On getting upset about wrong opinion.
Despite the federation, this site seems to have only become isolated and divorced of what made it unique: effortposting.
Maybe it’s not just Hexbear. Maybe that is why UlyssesT left; the catharsis is exhausted and online space is dominated by a a tendency for performative and justified outrage and yearning for solidarity and emotional validation. But rather than copium, as anyone afflicted with a disease would prefer, some small part of me wanted prognoses rather than diagnoses.
I don’t know. I reflect on things like /moretankiechapo or /genzedong and see how things have declined in qualityposts. Perhaps it is for the better, as UlyssesT had discovered, to have the impetus to go outside and not only live life but to evangalize socialism and recapture purpose and community.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
Might be nostalgia glasses + the new sorting algorithm. I’ve been here a while and things haven’t changed that much.
What I have noticed:
- Discussions have mostly moved from posts to megathreads, honestly this is kinda weird to me but w/e. Its still happening tho, just maybe not in the expected format
- less trolling, due to the efforts of the admins/mods
- less reactionary shit in general, chuds & terfs & stupidpol types get utterly decimated when trying to post here, there were definitely people that used to slip past the radar and would poison the well of discussion here
- People here are a little less liberal (me included) after having to kill the Bernie in their hearts and minds + forced integration with lemmygrad
I do wish we’d get the old alg back 😔
Shut up nerd and go to the news mega, we have stoves and like 50 effort posts
yeah I came here to say this. The megas and the rest of the site are like parallel realities
I’m gay
My dick is small
Bummmmm bum bumm bumm bum bummmmmm bummmmm
Idk if you were referencing this but it made me thing of it (CW: Cum Town)
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Im just here for the memes and the vibes in the mega
Oh yeah to take OP seriously, no, we didn’t. The sub had some of the worst threads of all time & mostly had reposted memes or twitter screenshots. The lemmy site is less filled with pointless shitstorms now because people nearly ran out of pet peeves to argue about.
fake news
wasn’t just recycled memes and images from r/thedeprogram or r/trueanon
One of my favorite parts of Hexbear is being able to see memes from reddit without having to go to Reddit myself
I appreciate all of the posters who go into that jungle to bring back the slop
Sure this place sucks, but it’s always sucked, and it doesn’t suck any more now than it did.
I just don’t have anything interesting to say anymore.
Yeah kinda just gone through all my bits, I’m only interesting when you first meet me
Only so many pancake jokes i can make.
I dont know. Im just a shitposter. When I come home from work I just want to look at some memes. I respect effort posts and struggle sessions. I just dont have the mental capacity to engage with that stuff most of the time during the week.
This little piggy just wants their slop… WHY CAN’T I GET MORE SLOP! FILL MY TROUGH!
WE LOVE OUR LITTLE PIGGIES. SHUFFLES MORE SLOP TOWARDS THE SNOUT
I think it’s a function of the content aggregator model for forums. Comment chains favour quips and bickering over group discussion, upvotes favour low effort and high engagement posts over more involved posts about niche interests, the structure of posts directs people to react to the “content” instead of providing broader topics of discussion and sorting and hiding of posts means most peoples input is buried almost immediately.
I mean, what’s the point of effort posting if only 10 or 15 people will even see your post and maybe 2 will comment. While a reddit thread or news article that makes people mad will get hundreds of upvotes and dozens of comments. We’re using a site structure designed to create a self perpetuating content farm and it’s working.
idk i’ve learned a lot more from this site since the news megathreads than any time before. like a month ago i posted like way too many effortposts to convince some that LLMs were probably not sentient. i still learn something new from every daily megathread also.
Me, having drafted a whole effortpost on the Cuban Missile Crisis the other day which I didn’t post because I couldn’t get the images from old telegrams to JFK to upload: 😞
Screenshot them lmao
Maybe you just need to convert them from webp to jpg or something? If you’re talking about pasting them on Lemmy
All the effortposts are in the news megathread. I’ve also noticed that my posts get more attention as a comment in the mega than in /c/news, even when they’re completely identical.
I’ve noticed that too. Just had to vent though.