like, i’m just trying to post random content. normally i post stuff to /c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone but this topic feels more mature, less silly.
/c/casualconversation@piefed.social only has like 15 votes per post so it’s not very active. meanwhile /c/asklemmy@lemmy.world has more like 70 upvotes per post on average. why is the casual conversations community so inactive?
Just Post might suite your desires.
ooh that’s a neat community! so it’s like !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone a bit, where people just post anything.
For casual conversation, it is weird to use likes as metrics rather thsn the number of comments
Why would you casually converse when you can competitively converse?
I’m the best fucking converser there is! AMA!!
I’m practicing my social skills in ranked skill-based matchmaking.
Pleased to announce I’ve been promoted out of Plastic tier and now I’m in the Wood league
How many peripherals have you smashed to achieve this?
Each of them, at least once.
Sometimes twice
After casually conversing once, I like to speedrun all future conversations. It’s not competitive, I just try to beat my own PB.
i see, however it’s not dull at all. i’m writing a book about the basics of biology. (genetics/biochemistry). i’d like some feedback :)
That sounds pretty damn dull to me.
the place for that is among biologists, not random internet strangers.
you looking in the wrong place.
Dullness is relaive and entirely subjective. As long as the content you’re writing isn’t too opaque to the non-science reader, I think it will fly.
You overestimate this platform’s ability to carry actual human conversation.
It’s hard enough to argue with people in the comments in not-really-realtime
I used to do that in forum sites years ago. There’s a kind of exhilarating excitement to it. Especially when I’m “behind” and mass quoting and replying to each quote. It was also exhausting.
I kind of miss it
It’s not the platform. It’s the users, and the culture at large.
It way easier to conduct things 10-20 years ago, than today.
Just watch old Presidential debates from the 70s and 80s, you’ll be shocked how sophisticated they sound compared to today’s toddler level debates.
in 2026 every moron thinks their opinion and feelings are the only relevant thing, and they actively seek to derail other people’s conversations because it upsets them for whatever reason… usually because they are too dumb to understand it.
15 hits in a day is pretty active on Lemmy Scales.
Yep we be small but quality.
Folks interested in casual conversation rather than the mostly topic-focused discussions of something like Lemmy might like to try IRC.
hmm ok. i’m mostly looking for a place to infodump about my current research project. and it should be lemmy, not IRC, because i want people to actually be able to read it at a later time for reference.
I make a post for casual conversation everyday. I’m hurt you didn’t notice.
honestly i looked into the casual conversation community for the first time yesterday.
other places to try:
I love dull mens club! It’s a really wholesome place
I mean, pretty much every community is the definition of casual conversation, isn’t it? 🤔
The fediverse actually really sucks at this point. It feels so irrelevant. Hopefully it gets better
Because the main casual conversation moved to piefed before tools like Lemmy federate had piefed support, so the user base got massively fractured simply because of lack of discovery across instances.
That costs a ton of momentum
But is it interconnected today or is Piefed still separated?
Basically still Separated.
The pidfed developer basically gave the lemmy federate dev a huge fuck you by banning his instance because he didn’t like the instance icon. As you can imagine this means Lemmy federate dev isn’t going to work on piefed support. However, very reasonably, he will accept any piefed support PRs the piefed dev may wish to submit.
So piefed comms are like early Lemmy comms still, no discovery other then manual.
Oh okay, thanks for the clarification! What a shame it has become like this.
It feels like infornation on this is so hard to get, everything is spread in tiny pieces around.
That is the problem with decentralization… the discovery.
However, people are fixing it, lemmy-federate is actively developed. I think the total daily active users has dipped a bit, but I’m still here to have conversations with people. Lemmy will grow, we just need to make it a great place first.
Some of the lead architects of core infrastructure have “eccentric” personalities which create friction, but I’m hopeful we will get past that. You need unique people to solve unique problems.
Well said!
because there is no content there.
and what content there is, is usually just spamming of boring inane nonsense by the same 1-3 people.
You are here.
People love talking about themselves when you ask them something.
A casual conversation would pass the time and the subject of the conversation would need to be common between both conversers. That’s why weather exists.
weather is a conspiracy controlled by the homosexual amphibian agenda.
Woke frogs are making the rain gay.
That is an old and well known theory. That’s why it’s casual. /s
