In theory yes, although the moderation is pretty lacking. So people use it as tech support, ideological rants, yes/no questions, support with actually using Lemmy, DAE, and all other manner of stuff that theoretically doesn't fit on here, and which is often low effort and doesn't prompt much discussion.
Even though there is already a !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world and a !doesanybodyelse@lemm.ee This c/ is still quite small, and doesn't get saturated with questions which belong elsewhere. Somehow splitting the content over 3 communities also get them way more empty than a big active one.
We're still far from the magic reload button we have on that other website which every minutes would see tons of new post.
The fewer options people have to do the wrong thing, the better everything becomes. Eventually, (in theory), we’ll get to a world where all you do is press a big green button and get a shiny sticker each day.
Yeah, I guess some people think it's more of an Ask Jeeves than an Ask Reddit. Might be better if it was just called "open-ended questions"or something like that.
You are correct. I was only joking, lemmy.ml is officially a general purpose server and this community is meant for everybody. But nonetheless, lemmy.ml users tend to be very leftist.
I'm confused by the second part, are you referring to lemmy.ml or lemmy.world when you say this instance? If people are claiming that the Lemmy devs are right wing... wow.
You won't see this, but... the Lemmy devs are Marxists, not right-wingers. Lemmygrad is definitely Marxist (Leninist). Lemmy.ml is left-wingers of all types.
Well, AskRedditAfterDark was actually a surprisingly wholesome and awesome community that I miss... I don't think we've got enough folks to build something similar, though.
Yea - the thing is that it's called "AskLemmy" when really the whole Fediverse can access the community. I feel like it would've been better suited to call it "AskFedi" or something else. In general it doesn't really make sense to use the software as the name for stuff.
People here say "lemmy" way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.
EDIT: Curious why people are down voting, anyone care to explain their perspective on this?
Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet
I mean, kinda? But it federates well enough I would say. I regularly see Mastodon or kbin users and I feel it's not fair to those users to refer to the spaces on Lemmy instances as "lemmy". And as you note, it's short sighted - Lemmy might not be around in 10 years and some other implementation might take over.
But tbf I'm not sure exactly what the federation problems are right now. I'm not sure how Lemmy could federate better (if at all).
I will always call this type of discussion forum “reddit”. This format, with upvotes, downvotes, nested replies, and collapsible descendants, is reddit