i don like them links. like - tell me what’s in the link, don’t just “rule” and put a link.
i believe that this is not a very lemmy thing to do. especially on mobile, where it leaves the app and opens some shiddy proprietary other social media platform in your browser.
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I feel you though
i never really understood what an “aggregator” is, so i just looked it up.
apparently it’s a thing which like - collects some data and then presents it on their page… which i guess is every social media platform… i dun get this
EDIT: weewoo i get it now u cn stop commenting >~<
It’s when like, you grow food and stuff
but you’re a long low reptile
that’s the original purpose of Reddit, someone posts a link to something they found interesting after they have “read it” :)
Also Digg for those who remember
wow that’s a memory that came from deep down ^^
not sure if i want to digg that deep
The way i would explain it is, that this platforms purpose is to provide a comment section for the articles and screenshots posted here. Voting is a secondary feature that allows it to be used for entertainment/news purposes by making high quality, important or funny posts more visible.
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I’m the opposite. I’d rather click on links than read memes.
I hate memes.
Nice try. Links here have previews.
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
me on my link aggregator site: there better not be any goddamn links here
yes, these links got no reason to be here >:(
(i literally do the same as op though hehe, too lazy to exit the app to view a link)
Links are what make the web amazing. I guess I’m turning into a curmudgeon because I liked the internet better when it was more than 5 sites. I like blogs and weird art sites and homepages. I hate “install this app” and “sign up to view this”.
I like that my browser can have plugins to block ads or translate stuff in other languages or replace “billionaire” with “oligarch”.
A link without context sucks though. Don’t just say “rule”.
i guess that makes me a cumdungeon too or whatever you said
I just am a little nervous accepting rides from strangers as the journey may be long and dangerous, or worse, slap me in the face with a pop up asking for my email to continue reading the article I was barely invested in to start.
…what? What the holy hell am I reading here? If you don’t “like links”, why the fuck are you here at all? And who is “ruling” anything?
its not that they dont like links, its that they dont like having links with no description that you have to click on and open to understand, and most of those are links to proprietary websites like youtube and othed large social media.
yes this exactly what i mean. these empty posts where it’s just a link, maybe even with the title header unchanged from the actual article title, which is usually super click-baity…
also...
pls use she/her for me
thaanksies <3They don’t show display names iirc.
what exactly are u refering to? u mean my username or the dropdown thingy?
i never used boost cuz proprietary software, but i kinda wanna know how these clients handle the posts stuffs.
Both, display names don’t show on the android clients I’ve tried so far.
The drop-down menu shows on Voyager but not others I’ve tried.
what do you mean by display names? i’m only aware of the one display name which i see on the web-client and on Jerboa, my lemmi app.
does boost only show the initial, unedited username you have set? that seems kinda not so cool… imma be honest… ;(
when i change ma name, i want peeps to see it! and not see some old deadname! yesyes, if how i describe it is the case, thats very not cool… ~
Well yeah that’s the display name.
And not just boost but others as well some bigger ones like Voyager don’t show display names as well.
i completely agree
and
sorry i didnt see ur pronouns earlier so i just used neutral :P
Yes. This is an aggregate site. The entire point of it is to link to other sources. That is why it exists.
yeah its supposed to be a place to share links. the problem is when the post is just a link with no explanation of what the link is.
The Lemmy
“Do you guys not have browsers?!”
nono, we do, but it feel uncomf to switch to
Links? in my link aggregator? Its more likely than you would think.
im not here for the links, im here for the comfy peeps who are super nice and post nice stuff and like - u kno, are reasonable and fun to interact with.
i dun want to be thrown on some site which wants me to pay 4$ to not be tracked, i dun want to be thrown onto Musks platform, i wanna stay here! in the land of comf peeps and vibes
I agree, its just kinda funny imo.
What about blahaj.zone, (without the Lemmy) its a sharkey instance, which is compatible with lemmy.
i am on the blahaj zone! it very comf too. but i was unable to use my Lemmy account >~<
Try following @[email protected] (paste it into the “lookup” thing)
wait huh!? but this is still the Lemmy platform! i already get notifications for it cuz it’s on my instance… like - that is THIS COMMUNITY. Why did u share this?
https://imgur.com/a/1JzT0yo This is a step by step. I mean https://blahaj.zone/, not the lemmy.
“The lemmy” reminds me when my grandparents refer to Facebook as “The facebook “
Facebook was originally called thefacebook.
The more you know!
that’s kinda the fine i was going for. like lemmy is a place u go to or something, to share what u did today.
I’m with ya. especially videos.
Cause it’s always a 10-20 min that could have easily been an article that takes 2 mins to read.
I once watched a 20 minute long video with some guy talking so fucking slow and filling the video with meaningless fluff, until the last minute, where he actually answers the question, and hes fucking wrong.
how else is the content creator gonna fit 3x 5-30seconds ads in there?
Any problem with Link bro?
naw, he cool
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It depends, i think the problem is when it’s just a link and nothing else to engage with, i’m very unlikely to bother opening a new tab just to see what the fuck a post is about.
If however there’s a relevant thumbnail and embed or manually copied text, then i can get the gist without leaving the front page.
yes, same. if i ki da understand what it’s about, im totally gonna click. if just “rule”, I’m not gonna or if it’s a super click-baity dumb stuff also not ~
Yeah, I find it annoying when the title sounds vaguely interesting and then there’s nothing there but a link. Give us a bit of discussion…if you found it worth linking, don’t you have something to say about it?
Also people need to stop just copying the title of the article they link to. Those titles are always clickbait. Instead relabel it honestly for people here.
Preach !
It is also annoying when it happens in one of those questions like explaininglikeim5 or askscience etc.
"What an interesting question with so many comments, let’s see what OP thinks of all the responses " and then they just disappear into the void.
It was conjured from your thoughts, give us some follow-up from your brain.
tbf some communities require them to copy the title verbatim
