Discussion options are limited to:

• Communism
• Trans rights
• Fuck cars
• Linux

Wait'll you see how the rest of the internet is

Wait, wasn't there a post the other day with Lemmy stats showing more discussion than ever?

I love it when I'm reading the comments for a meme about butts or something, and then it quickly evolves into a deep discussion about the nature of human society.

Meh. I've seen some decent discussions here on Lemmy, just not in c/memes.

Okay, and admittedly more than half of those discussions were about Linux.

I've noticed a lot of commenters straight away take things personally and think that mentioning something is endorsing it. That kills discussion and turns it into a defensive symantic battle against commenters' assumptions.

All memes are shitposts.

Facts.

Well, in my honest opinion as a commenter, I'd just like to say that I love discussions. What I tend to not enjoy is replying to the 1500 different people who replied to my post with valid takes, requiring me to read, understand and reply appropriately to all of them.

I am lazy, ok?!

Edit: replaced animated gif with a static one bc it just wouldn't stop!!!:-P

looks like OP hasn't been to the world news community.

Replace lemmy with The Internet and it would be the same thing.

"The problem is that no one's contributing!"

-creates a community, trying to contribute-

-fails spectacularly with no engagement from anyone at all-

Well, that was encouraging👍👍👍👍👍

Since federation is broken a lot of instances I follow don’t have new posts. So no discussions for me.

The prophecy is true!

grrrrrrr how dare you make fun of shitposts at uselessserver093

The active sort should help a little with this, but ya its definitely a problem. Besides just blocking meme-specific communities, can anyone think of ways we could make discussions more prominent for people who'd rather use lemmy for that?