It’s kinda hard to get a feel for which community you should post somethings in. I’d say this is particularly true of discussion topics/text posts (that end up never posted). Anyone else or Is it just a me problem? If not, what could be done about it?
Edit 1: For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there’s a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.
We used to say RTFM or Lurk more in the good old days.
Yeah, fair enough, but in the good old days boards used to have clear structures for topics, off topic sections etc. Lemmy is a bit messy at times…
Lemmy is equally well structured by topics! An instance is the equivalent of a board, a community is the equivalent of the forum, a post is the equivalent of a thread/topic.
I have to disagree with you here. Nominally, what you’re saying is kinda true, but the old school boards I’m thinking of would have a directory like structure with (usually) clear labels and with little overlap – most of the time having a shared theme for the entire message board. Notably, these boards were not federated with multiple versions of each branch of the structure living side by side. In terms of “what goes where”, even very broad scope traditionalist message boards were/are a lot easier to follow. That doesn’t mean your’re wrong that one has to learn to understand the platform as it is, it’s a fair point.