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?

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[–] 39 points 3 months ago

For casual conversation, it is weird to use likes as metrics rather thsn the number of comments

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Why would you casually converse when you can competitively converse?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm practicing my social skills in ranked skill-based matchmaking.

    Pleased to announce I've been promoted out of Plastic tier and now I'm in the Wood league

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    !dullsters@dullsters.net

    And

    !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world

    Are pretty active

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    i see, however it's not dull at all. i'm writing a book about the basics of biology. (genetics/biochemistry). i'd like some feedback :)

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    You overestimate this platform's ability to carry actual human conversation.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's hard enough to argue with people in the comments in not-really-realtime

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  • [–] 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

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  • [–] 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I make a post for casual conversation everyday. I'm hurt you didn't notice.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Because the main casual conversation moved to piefed before tools like Lemmy federate had piefed support, so the user base got massively fractured simply because of lack of discovery across instances.

    That costs a ton of momentum

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    But is it interconnected today or is Piefed still separated?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Basically still Separated.

    The pidfed developer basically gave the lemmy federate dev a huge fuck you by banning his instance because he didn't like the instance icon. As you can imagine this means Lemmy federate dev isn't going to work on piefed support. However, very reasonably, he will accept any piefed support PRs the piefed dev may wish to submit.

    So piefed comms are like early Lemmy comms still, no discovery other then manual.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Oh okay, thanks for the clarification! What a shame it has become like this.

    It feels like infornation on this is so hard to get, everything is spread in tiny pieces around.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That is the problem with decentralization... the discovery.

    However, people are fixing it, lemmy-federate is actively developed. I think the total daily active users has dipped a bit, but I'm still here to have conversations with people. Lemmy will grow, we just need to make it a great place first.

    Some of the lead architects of core infrastructure have "eccentric" personalities which create friction, but I'm hopeful we will get past that. You need unique people to solve unique problems.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    15 hits in a day is pretty active on Lemmy Scales.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    You are here.

    People love talking about themselves when you ask them something.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, pretty much every community is the definition of casual conversation, isn't it? 🤔

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I agree with EVERYONE here

    • not good at casual conversation - CHECK
    • participate in forums with some focus such as dull…. - CHECK
    • wouldn’t know what to do with conversation as unstructured as “casual” - CHECK
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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    because there is no content there.

    and what content there is, is usually just spamming of boring inane nonsense by the same 1-3 people.

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    The fediverse actually really sucks at this point. It feels so irrelevant. Hopefully it gets better

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    A casual conversation would pass the time and the subject of the conversation would need to be common between both conversers. That's why weather exists.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Folks interested in casual conversation rather than the mostly topic-focused discussions of something like Lemmy might like to try IRC.

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