this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2024
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They don't even give a TLDR in the post body .

EDIT : My unpopular opinion is really unpopular hehe.

EDIT: To all the people saying lemmy and reddit are link aggregators that is not true they are also web forums .

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

That’s how Reddit was for the majority of its life. This isn’t strange, the stuff that made people stay during that time is the conversations you can have in comments

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its a link aggregator, links get aggregated

Theres a bunch of original content if you look at the right communities. For example [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

yeah lmao, the whole point is to bring in stuff from the rest of the web. Lemmy is not a platform for content, it's for aggregation and comments

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Yeah Lemmy is a link aggregator, like reddit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Even the communities on lemmynsfw are growing in that regard as well ..... Not that I would know much about that .....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I’m doing my bit about that. A little slowly though. Don’t want to flood it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Then hold the criticism until.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

I have aldready made a few OC's

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In that case, it's a bit weird that you keep registering new accounts so you can be here.

Also, it's a link aggregator, your complaint is the entire point lol.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is my only account pal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm not your pal buddy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The Lemmy I see daily is 90% memes straight to my eye holes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tldr should really be mandatory for any link. Doubly so for video or audio content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It depends on the community and what your interests are, TBH. There are even instances that have their own core topics, actually.

OC on most of the communities is still growing and it's going to take a while to be at the level Reddit is at.

As far as the TLDR issue, there are bots that do a fairly good job of summarizing websites. I am surprised you haven't seen them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am too suprised i have never seen those bots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

At complete random, I found a post where the AutoTLDR bot showed up: https://lemmy.world/post/11737650 (that is an odd post and didn't fully load when I clicked that link. The bot is there, though.)

I believe that particular bot needs to be invited to the community though. Some news communities use that bot, some other bots will also TLDR their own posts.

Funny enough, I clicked on about 4 different OC posts while looking for AutoTLDR....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Worst of all it's JUST news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

dont you shit on Risa like that, the backbone of the OC gaurd. The servers broke but Risa held stong... or.... something more original...