In the monthly server updates for lemmy.zip/piefed.zip there's a mantra that's repeated every month. I think it's wonderful and can be applied to the Fediverse as a whole.

If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet or merely makes things wet. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession.
(We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)

The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.

So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:

Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.

Original post by @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip

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[–] gkaklas@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it's just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁

It's like, how in some movies and shows people have "meaningless" discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don't behave in a toxic way, it's just a way to connect and share ideas!

And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁

More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I find that people on the internet are largely incapable of level-headed discussions.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Eh, it's not like they are going to somehow get better at it without practice...