In my opinion.
It’s fine, but it’s too common in online communities (including Lemmy) and it discourages people from posting their original thoughts or events that they find important and relevant, since something needs to come from a ‘real news source’ or an ‘online article’.
I can make a website right now and call it “The Daily Pragmatist” or some shit and people won’t bat an eye.
Reality also is that many reach conclusions based on titles alone anyhow. I can’t see how it would be worse, since the body of the post is always going to be a tad more accessible than opening a new website. And we see how little people want to work to gather their knowledge, on the whole.
I get removing crappy content, but what about when thoughts are backed up with sources and opinions are relevant to overall discussion?
And separately, what’s up with aversion to ‘non-standard’ forms of expression? I would argue that something like the show ‘The Rehearsal’ by Nathan Fielder, is an equally valid way to deliver real and important news to people. I wouldn’t be alone in this sentiment.
Imo this shit is busted and dumb.
Edit: for those that agree in part or in whole, if you have the bandwidth for it, consider making your own community! Lemmy is still relatively small and your local instance might be even more so. It’s not impossible to get a community going, and if it fails - oh well!
It’s definitely the case the fediverse requires a lot of specific, technical knowledge to really grasp, and that the onboarding story for new users is pretty confusing, especially since the most significant decision you make (what instance to host your account on) is the first decision you make, before you even see any content. It’s a problem I’ve been thinking about for many years, and still haven’t found a good solution for. Other some bland reassurances that “you’ll get the hang of it eventually,” all I can say is that every time I talk about instances, it feels like the scene from Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan’s new friends explain the various high school cliques.
I believe piefed, or at least piefed.social suggests that you can move your account between instances? If I glanced at/read that right, and it is that simple, that seems like a good thing.
I used asklemmy once for something and was told to bugger off because that isn’t what it is for… even though nothing else appeared to exist to find out wtf is going on
I started with .solrpunk but they had too much downtime, so I set up a new account on .zip but am getting a repeated error which is vague (cannot go to, or reply to certain posts even though they repeatedly still appear to be there, and no blocks appear to be in place)