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  • Dendrologist@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has community engagement dropped off suddenly?
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    7 months ago

    To be fair, what do you expect people to talk about?

    5-12 comments covers most topics for a given article/meme. Any more than that, and it starts to just become a repeat of what someone else said.

    Do you want to read 10 copies of “lol that meme is so me!”

    I always thought it was wild that your average thread on Reddit could garner thousands upon thousands of comments, with the vast majority of them being repeats of something someone already said.

    Then factor in that those same comments are in the next thread, and the next one. That’s not engagement, that’s insane!

    The comments here are far more sparse, but they still cover all your bases. You still get the interesting info dump from some expert or hyperfocused individual who’s done a bunch of reading, you still get a humorous pun or joke, and you still get the “well, actually, this is wrong because…” just, now, it’s like 1 of each type instead of a thousand people all trying to crack the same joke in one thread.

    Edit: to clarify, I mean 5-12 top level comments

  • Dendrologist@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all
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    9 months ago

    I want to get mad at your apathy, but really, it just makes me sad.

    Of course it won’t be the end. In the same way climate disaster isn’t the end of the world, but it is the end of the world as we know it.

    A fascist takeover of many of the most powerful countries in the world wouldn’t mean the end for all, but it does mean the end for whoever is deemed “other”. In the case of 1930s/40s Germany, that was political opponents, Jews, disabled, and LGBT people.

    Today and in the future, who knows what arbitrary definition of a person will be chosen to make people “other”. It could be anything from traditional hate categories like race or sexuality to something new like length of hair.

    I don’t know what kind of person you are but you clearly feel confident that you won’t be one of the ones on the receiving end of violence and the fact you think that’s okay because it’s not happening to you is so… depressing. If you don’t have a moral compass for the sake of others, at least try and have one for the sake of yourself because as fascism rears its head, whatever demographic you fall into may be next at the receiving end of the violence.

    First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

    Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

    Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

    Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

  • Dendrologist@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.de•UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say expertsEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Upper middle class is a made-up term to make those in the working class who earn the most think they’re not in the same boat as “the poors”. If everything comes crumbling down, they’ll be waiting in the food lines like the rest of us. Millionaires and billionaires will not have the same problems.

    We’ve seen from things like the Panama Papers that the rich are far richer than they’d have you believe. I’m sure they’ll be just fine being taxed a bit more.

    Also, £120 billion of pension money is likely to wind up straight back in the pockets of the same billionaires anyway as they own the major companies that pensioners are going to be buying everything from anyway.

    Spreading doom and gloom that we’ll just all have to suck it up and suffer the consequences of past decisions is a shite position. Don’t repeat past mistakes of letting the rich off with it, eat the rich, enjoy retirement at a reasonable age, spread socialism.