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The Lemmy apps are fine, but I've been disappointed in the quality of Lemmy posts and discussion. It's too many memes, not enough good quality thoughts, discussion, content, community. It's unfortunate. Wanted this to be the place I die.
Just block the meme communities and it makes this place a much more engaging site. There's obviously not the same level as reddit yet, but with time it will get there.
The problem is I like memes...I just don't want to ONLY see memes. It's just that Lemmy's sorting algorithm is not as robust as Reddit. With Reddit my subscription feed would show me all of my communities, even if there was a large difference in size of them. My small communities still showed up in my subscriptions feed because Reddit had a more balanced algorithm. With Lemmy, the most popular communities flood out all the others. If the devs made the sorting work better we could have a more balanced experience.
I've found that the trick is not to actually sub to meme communities, even if you want to see them. That way you can browse your subscribed feed for all the discussion on the topics you want, but then you can switch over to All > Top Day or whatever and still end up seeing most of the memes in there because they're so popular.
Yeah this is what I do. My subscribed feed is all news and discussion (and good discussion at that!), and then I go to All to see the memes. I first I subscribed to a meme community or two and it dominated my feed.
Yeah I think this is ultimately what I'm going to have to do. A bit annoying but oh well!
Good point. I think the sorting algorithms should be the number one priority for Lemmy devs at the moment.
Seems quite the opposite for me. Every 1 in 3 posts are either discussion or news reports.
Edit: actually it looks more like every other post with sometime 6 or 7 continuous ones without a meme
You can do the opposite too... Subscribe to the communities you like, and have that be your front-page. Then browse all when you're feeling freaky!
That's what I do, but they were mentioning that they wanted to browse all, but the memes were ruining it for them. I'm usually on all so I can keep an eye out for new communities to join
I don't care so much about the memes, but the moderation on the meme subs is severely lacking. I've seen enough shit and dicks in the last 3 days I just temporarily blocked the instance the accounts were coming from until they figure out their shit.
Had the same issue so I removed most meme communities ^^ It's just to easy to post them, they rank high on the filters as well
Block the communities you don't want to see in your profile settings. That way, you'll see more meaningful posts. That's what I did, I blocked all memes communities.
Itβs kinda hitting the early 2010s 9gag nostalgia for me right now with all the shitty memes.
Make two accounts on different instances. One for Memes one for discussion and just switch back and forth depending on what you are in the mood for.
Agreed. And not just memes but quite shitty ones especially recently. Filling the front page with beans is worse than not posting at all
What I did was unsubscribe from the meme communities. When I want a laugh Iβll go on βGlobalβ and see them. Switch to subscribed to see better discussion.
I totally agree, it is getting better though. I'm trying to keep in mind that it's only been a couple weeks. new communities take time to grow. i think a big issue with lemmy is there's so many options so there's competition between communities for content but there just aren't enough users to go around. it'll get there though. one thing i do like though is that i've been getting more quality engagement on posts and comments i make. i'm not feeling attacked by replies or seeing pointless comments like "this!", ya know?
I had a similar experience and just started blocking all the meme instances. Much better so far!