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Why is most content on Lemmy just old memes? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I really like Lemmy so far, but sometimes my feed is just invaded by old facebook memes.

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[–] 74 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (17 children)

Don’t use the “all” feed. I only use it to discover new communities (but there is also a specific community for that).

For my daily browsing I exclusively use the “subscribed” feed.

Edit: the community I mentioned is https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world or !newcommunities@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 49 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    My problem is that there ain’t enough content yet, so I browse all

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm with you. I blocked the most prolific meme communities and the main posting bots and my feed looks way better now. Remember that you can click on the community name and there's a "block" option on the sidebar, which works on all views. Same with users.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    Wish I could do this with instances. Personally don't want to scroll all and see a load of porn from lemmy.world, blurred or not.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'll be surprised if that option isn't coming soon, a lot of people have asked for it. In the meantime, there's a profile setting for not showing NSFW content if that helps. Oh, and I'm betting that, like with Reddit, a giant percentage of the NSFW content comes from a much smaller set of communities, so you might try blocking those to at least reduce it.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Tried the blocking communities. Unfortunately lemmy.world seems to have a sprawl of these that for individual kinks I guess.

    I'm not complaining too much that it's there. Just annoying that it pops up.

    I didn't block NSFW content to begin with because I thought there might be some gory stuff that I'm missing out on, but it turns out it's all porn :D

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What are your interests?

    There is !casualconversation@lemmy.world !personalfinance@lemmy.ml, !parenting@lemmy.world and !moviesandtv@lemmy.film that are a bit out of the usual tech/memes/news bubble

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Can you tell us the name of the community you mentioned?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Sorry, I totally forgot to link it (I had it copied already), but here you go: https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

    I edited my post as well.

    Edit: !newcommunities@lemmy.world

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