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"Teddit is Shutting Down. Lemmy is the New Reddit" (tedd.it)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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[–] 35 points 3 years ago (18 children)

I would like to, but the fact is lemmy is 99% shitposts and memes. Don't get me wrong, I like that stuff but I also need to know wtf is going on in the world. Since losing rif and refusing to use the official app, I am now basically getting news when my wife sees it on Facebook, which means it's old news by then.

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

    We all have our bias. My lemmy is not like that. Which means you're not curating your feed.

    I block every community with content I'm not interested in. It works. My lemmy feed is very interesting.

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

    Any tips you can share on how you did this? I'm totally new to Lemmy, and I'm having a hard time finding and/or discovering interesting communities.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    You'll have to look for the 'block community' button. Depending on the UI you're using, this can be in different places.

    In Lemmy's default UI, you first click the part under the title identifying the community under which it was posted. Let's say it was posted under darkmemes@lemmy.world. What you do is:

    1. click that darkmemes@lemmy.world;
    2. on the community page, you then click the 'block community' button on the sidebar.

    click that button.

    On a phone app, the process may be less cumbersome. On Thunder, an Android app, you just have to click and hold the post, wait until a menu appears, and then select 'block community'.

    like this

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago

    The reality is that the shitpost and meme communities will be the ones that give birth to the niche communities we need to thrive. It's easy, low-effort, but fun-enough and engaging enough to get people through the door.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    It’s a process. Memes are the lowest common denominator, will get a lot of ppl on the site, then small communities will grow. Some are already useful, I curate a list that I follow and see when I open my app, and I can already see world news like the Italy heatwave, actor strike, etc. at the top. Not perfect, but already beter than 1 week ago.

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

    Yeah I get that too, but it just shows we've been too reliant on others to generate content for us

    If it's the news you need, there are RSS feeds from news sites, I've also subscribed to them after leaving Reddit

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Precisely. Sharing your finds and commenting on what others have found is the ideal situation. When only 1% post content, and slightly more comment, it is easy to game the system - like Reddit and these other “socials”. Lemmy’s robustness will be a function of its people.

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

    Lemmy will hit its stride. I did some minor tweaks to my feed and it got a lot better. I'm still getting the lay of the land tho

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I get my news from the AP and I'm very happy with it. It's one of the few apps that I allow push notifications for so I don't even need to check the app to get the top headlines, I just tap on the ones that look interesting and clear the rest.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I’m hoping the quality of the content will grow over time. I don’t even give a shit about porn but right now it’s like half this place is posts about wet pussies and subs about ass and it’s grossing me the fuck out. I’ve been curating so it’s getting better but still

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