Sorry, no link to some ‘news’ article. /s
I’m a newcomer myself, but it seems my feed is just filled with low-effort news links with no other content. It’s c/mildlyinfuriating at this point. Maybe moderators outside of communities that are specifically for current events could require at least an effort by the op to add some of her own thoughts?
Did you expect something else from a link aggregator?
The Discussion can still be there? Linking to a content is almost no different than Uploading said content straight to the instance, said content could even be OP’s OC but uploaded to their own server for possibly many reasons, including true content ownership or saving the instance the data transfer costs
But this choice in no way stops conversation from happening, if nobody engages with a Linked News Article, the same Article copy pasted straight into the Instance wont get attention either
The discussion is in the comments. It’s even a meme that no one reads the article before commenting.
In “link aggregator” you have the word… “link”. Also, how about you try to be the change you want to see?
Uh what? I just posted actual original content, that being the change I’d like to see.
Why are people claiming that Lemmy is just a ‘link aggregator’? It doesn’t have to be.
Be the change, post something 🤷.
Everyone complains, but no one does anything about it…
Seriously. I like to see vibrant comment threads so I post on pretty much anything I read. No use in whinging about it, try to build the platform with your own initiative!
I tend to agree. To me just a link to an article without any other input is just spam. I don’t see the point in just being the comments section for someone else’s site and content.
Most people don’t seem to agree, but at least for the community I moderate I try to avoid it myself. I won’t stop anyone else from doing it though.
Isn’t it a link aggregation site? I feel like that’s the point…
There are definitely communities that focus on that, though. I know I personally enjoy the local text posts and comment interactions as it reminds me of the good old days of browsing vBulletin forms all day, but lemmy is kind of a different beast in a lot of ways
