My theory is Lemmy is heavily populated by neurodivergent folks, who may have varying expressions of humor, and also may not pick up on certain expressions of humor as easily. This lends to a feeling of "super-seriousness" or aloofness at times.
It just is what it is.
Whenever I try to be funny, I come across as super-cereal...folks don't like that in neurodivergent cave dwellers...:/
It's a difficult medium.
I just wish people used downvotes more sparingly, from all perspectives of the spectrum. Particularly on comments. It's discouraging for everyone.
It's been better, but for about a year now it looks like a number of lost people have been roaming lemmy sowing confusion...plenty of users used to say this was a really welcoming environment, particularly before the reddit IPO/LLMs...
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It's not that difficult. Plenty of sites manage to do just fine with text comments and still be light hearted. A big problem is lemmy seems to willfully misinterpret comments to the worse possible meaning.
i get the same feeling.. people are too serious here
I'm having fun ☹️
Obviously you don't understand humor like they do.
Q: Why did the punk rocker cross the road?
spoiler
A: BECAUSE HE WAS PINNED TO THE CHICKEN!!
To understand this joke you need to be old enough to remember when wearing safety pins through the flesh was fashionable in some subcultures.
Wow, that was, like, SOOOOO funny, I forgot to laugh. /s
And this is awesome.
Yow!
I agree.
Being a mod, I honestly don't know how to interact with the communities I care about. I'm afraid of saying something that offends, then have people afraid of reporting me to, well, me. This means that I keep tone neutral normally.
I have some great dad jokes, if you want them, though.
Jokes and sarcasm are not allowed on lemmy, people don't like fun here. Only the posts can be shit, never the comments.
Literally just put a "/s" and everyone will get your sarcasm.
Depends on why people communicate on social media. The best communities are the ones where everyone understands what they are there to do without being told. It's not just because memeing communities are fun and technical communities are dull. Places like technology or worldnews generate friction because there are some people sharing/requesting info and people trying to relax/vent/troll/feel important/fight/dunk and that creates an expectation mismatch that leads to toxicity.
Be the change you want to see.
Do you mean like reddit, where the top 50 voted comments are always the same repetitive jokes?
And my axe!
disco ball
New response just dropped
Wait, you can say things on Lemmy? I've been typing them like a chump the entire time!
I occasionally did one liner at news as well, it's a behaviour inherited from Reddit, but yeah i don't really like doing it outside of particular community. Imagine people share something and all they get is one liner joke. It's frustrating part of reddit culture that i learned and i'm now trying to stop.
Nah, if I think of a joke, it's getting told
Sarcasm. Can you see it?
I just got here but if this means it's not like reddit where every comment is the same 12 jokes they've been beating to death since 2010 then I'm glad
Q:
How do you know if there's an elephant living in your fridge?
A:
From the footprints in the peanut butter!!
Back when, we only had what today would be called "natural" peanut butter, made from just peanuts. You didn't have to keep it in the fridge, but it helped keep it from separating again once you got it all stirred up.
I thought I was enjoying the Lamington experience, but perhaps I am wrong.
Here's a joke though:
Q. How do you turn a cat in to a dog?
A. Cover it in petrol and light a match... Woof!
Q2. How do you turn it back in to a cat?
A2. Stick it in the freezer, then cut it in half with a bandsaw... Mmmeeoooooow
Apparently I shared this joke when I changed kindergartens as my "tell everyone about yourself, and tell us a funny joke you heard" introduction thing. According to the teacher I was in stitches the whole time, but did riff a little in the middle with some improv which ended up involving trees and cars and a snowman somehow.
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