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?

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    11·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • SamXavia@kbin.run
      3·
      11 months ago

      @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.

      • solrize@lemmy.ml
        2·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • SamXavia@kbin.run
          2·
          11 months ago

          @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.