I feel there is a disproportionate amount of people on Lemmy for memes vs actual genuine discussions on hot topics.
Curious also if there is perhaps a solution to this?
I think the problem may inherently be the front page. Memes are more likely to be upvoted, whereas discussions are probably taking place in smaller communities. I’d suggest subscribing to text-based communities that you want to follow discussions in.
Yep, memes on the front page is something that happens on other platforms too. Some communities make rules against low effort / meme content so it doesn’t push out the regular discussion.
A very easy solution to most of these feed related issues is: sort by subscribed communities. Everyone has their preferences
If you want to use ALL to find communities then that’s fine, but it’s going to feel like a treasure hunt because that’s what it is
@yote_zip I feel it is probably that as well, people want to be entertained most of the time and reading things aren’t always what people are looking for even on places like Lemmy and Kbin.
I’d like the feed to be adjusted so that if there are a bunch of posts from the same community not too far apart from each other chronologically, to group them all together. Alternatively, a way to block communities showing in your front page view without blocking them completely. It’s not just memes, there are a bunch of other topics that also clutter up the front page constantly. Even things like news reports in Dutch, which are perfectly legit except I can’t read them, would be less annoying with this type of feature.
@solrize A mute on feed button would be an amazing way to get around this as I’m not really looking for memes unless I go on the community for them as well as a few other topics that I may never or will go out of my way to see.
Also a Subscribed Tab could be a way around it as it would allow you to go to your subbed communities and check what’s hot & new from them.
There is already a subscribed tab, and I use it most of the time when I want to catch up on selected topics. I use the local or all feed when I want to browse a wider view of what’s going on in general. Right now the total amount of Lemmy traffic is small enough that browsing that way is tolerable, which it wouldn’t be e.g. on reddit.
I do think that the Lemmy software design is more meme-oriented than I’d prefer, because of stuff like the thumbnail pic with every post in the main feeds. The more interesting parts of reddit to me were text-only and we don’t have that here.
@solrize Maybe it’s time for some us to create Text-Only Communities to chat in as i’m sure that would be amazing to see. It’s that or I’m sure there’s already some community already made to be a “Just Chatting” one or something.
Well, there’s !casualconversation@lemmy,world…
@Rolando Thanks, I’ll be sure to check it out.
It helps to have a meaty subscription list to switch to for when All goes through a meme-y period, but overall I agree and was just thinking of this yesterday actually. Except I was thinking about art and how I used to see more art on the frontpage at Reddit. Would love to see more OC art get hot over here too (in addition to hot topics of course).
Match the sub list with a healthy blocked list and it all balances out.
block those communities if you don’t want to see them. problem solved.
The solution is to stop browsing all.
Memes
Star Trek
And Star Trek memes
Not complaining
Don’t forget Star Wars memes, and LOTR memes. And The Big Lebowski memes join in occasionally.
No I like seeing memes on the front page. They’re fun and easy to interact with. If I want to see a feed without memes I can use my subscription feed or block.
A lot of the responses are offering an all or none response. The issue isn’t OP wants to block all memes posts, they just don’t want to see them as often.
This is an algorithm/fedi issue I suspect. It would require curation.
Since fedi isn’t really about that, the only option is to downvote.
Downvote shitty memes.
Scaled sort comes with next lemmy release. Like hot but takes community activity into account so smaller ones don’t get buried.
All = memes,
Subs = knowledge
nope
The discussions here are pretty sparse. We mostly share the same perspective and folks that don’t leave pretty quickly.
As for disliking memes, maybe block the communities?
Memes are easily digested content. It kinda makes sense that they’d go to the front page. The same was always true of Reddit
All = memes Subs = knowledge
Don’t sub meme munis? I don’t see memes at all.
Mastodon has a feature that lets you do a timed mute for a given source (ie - you can put a 2 week mute on an annoying meme feed that’s having an overzealous ‘moment’). I think this could be a fantastic feature for lemmy…
Be the meme you wish to see in the world
