I really like Lemmy so far, but sometimes my feed is just invaded by old facebook memes.
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/[email protected] or [email protected]
My problem is that there ain’t enough content yet, so I browse all
Please help by contributing content. Lemmy will not grow and thrive if we all lurk.
Yes, but still, if you want more new content right now, you’re going to need to browse All.
The user base is a fraction of the size of Reddit.
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.
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.
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.
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
I think none of it is actually on .world, it’s almost all on lemmynsfw.com and a couple others.
The gore (or, at least, deaths, is in c/Ukraine. I’d rather see the porn though.
I do the same because there isn’t a single community that I care about that isn’t silent if it even exists. Pretty damn boring.
Don’t subscribe to those communities?
Or block them if you’re browsing all
It’s a phase! I swear!
We’re kind of at the tail end of a nostalgic meme trend. [email protected] blew up about 3 weeks ago, it spread to the other meme communities, and everyone was having fun with posting crusty old memes.
Unsubscribe from the meme communities. Problem solved.
If I could mandate one rule for the fediverse that it didn’t already have, it would be a hard ban on reposts, especially those undated Twitter screencaps that took over entire subreddits the last few years.
It’s a way to add content and (hopefully) build interest in the system. It’s also a way for Lemmy users to show they are just a little different.
It’s because a lot of people here are people who miss the earlier days of the internet and are trying to recreate that feeling. I’m not that old but it’s got me feeling nostalgic so I enjoy it
The early days of the internet was waiting for 20 minutes for a naked picture of Pamela Anderson to finish loading on the screen. I’m not sure if anyone really wants to recreate that.
You’ve gone back too far! I meant mid to late aughts (2005-2010)
I only use the subscriptions feed, so I only see what I want to see and that removes this problem.
You can block the meme communities, then you won’t see those posts in your feed.
I sort of enjoy seeing the ones I had forgotten about.
