▲ 52 ▼ why are there no active casual conversation communities? (feddit.org) submitted 3 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments like, i'm just trying to post random content. normally i post stuff to /c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone but this topic feels more mature, less silly. /c/casualconversation@piefed.social only has like 15 votes per post so it's not very active. meanwhile /c/asklemmy@lemmy.world has more like 70 upvotes per post on average. why is the casual conversations community so inactive?
[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 months ago (2 children) You overestimate this platform's ability to carry actual human conversation. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 child) It's hard enough to argue with people in the comments in not-really-realtime permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JayGray91@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago I used to do that in forum sites years ago. There's a kind of exhilarating excitement to it. Especially when I'm "behind" and mass quoting and replying to each quote. It was also exhausting. I kind of miss it permalink fedilink source parent [–] AskewLord@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) It's not the platform. It's the users, and the culture at large. It way easier to conduct things 10-20 years ago, than today. Just watch old Presidential debates from the 70s and 80s, you'll be shocked how sophisticated they sound compared to today's toddler level debates. in 2026 every moron thinks their opinion and feelings are the only relevant thing, and they actively seek to derail other people's conversations because it upsets them for whatever reason... usually because they are too dumb to understand it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 child) It's hard enough to argue with people in the comments in not-really-realtime permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JayGray91@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago I used to do that in forum sites years ago. There's a kind of exhilarating excitement to it. Especially when I'm "behind" and mass quoting and replying to each quote. It was also exhausting. I kind of miss it permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago I used to do that in forum sites years ago. There's a kind of exhilarating excitement to it. Especially when I'm "behind" and mass quoting and replying to each quote. It was also exhausting. I kind of miss it permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) It's not the platform. It's the users, and the culture at large. It way easier to conduct things 10-20 years ago, than today. Just watch old Presidential debates from the 70s and 80s, you'll be shocked how sophisticated they sound compared to today's toddler level debates. in 2026 every moron thinks their opinion and feelings are the only relevant thing, and they actively seek to derail other people's conversations because it upsets them for whatever reason... usually because they are too dumb to understand it. permalink fedilink source parent