don't like em rule
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.
EDIT: completely forgot to add picture. now it's here!
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
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)
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 >~<
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.
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.
tbf some communities require them to copy the title verbatim
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.
Then why even use a link aggregate site in the first place? 🤷🏻♂️
Because threaded forum discussions are about more than posting links. I mean look at me right now. I'm replying to you, to your comment, but not to the whole thread. People can follow our replies separate from the group. It's a game-changer compared to the old-school forums which had one long reply chain to the thread and the thread alone.
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.
I'm the opposite. I'd rather click on links than read memes.
I hate memes.
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they're annoying and like - i enjoy lemmy. it a fun platform. but - not them links... especially when the links are owned by evil cooperations >;(
Any problem with Link bro?
naw, he cool
EDIT: edited now to naw
“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?
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 ~
“Do you guys not have browsers?!”
nono, we do, but it feel uncomf to switch to
The Lemmy
.....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.
