I feel that outside the memes community , no one had ever said a joke in the comments and I rarely see sarcasm here.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • Gsus4@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Whenever I try to be funny, I come across as super-cereal…folks don’t like that in neurodivergent cave dwellers…:/

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • Gsus4@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          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…

        • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          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.

  • jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    Jokes and sarcasm are not allowed on lemmy, people don’t like fun here. Only the posts can be shit, never the comments.

  • JonsJava@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • Gsus4@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    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.