Did anyone else have to block the meme communities cuz that’s all they see? 😂

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, I just don’t subscribe to them. So why would you contribute to the problem by posting a meme to a non-meme community?

  • Thales@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    That’s where Subscribed versus All comes in though. I do want to see what everyone is upvoting, even when it’s all memes/196 posts. We’re in a shitpost phase now but it’ll pass.

  • ultimate_question@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ya it’s a little concerning how quickly people shifted to posting low effort crap in bulk in order to simulate a bigger community

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure it’s a “simulate” but rather that memes and other low effort posts expand wherever they are loosed to fill as much space (both storage and mental) as possible. They’re easy to make, easy to post, and easy to consume.

      A (new) lemmy instance provides such fertile ground.

      For some nostalgia… https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/01/31/the-trouble-with-popularity/ … which has some “heh, what a coincidence” parts to it too as it was comparing Stack Overflow to Reddit.

      The Reddit founders maintained that evil things which require active moderation didn’t happen too often, provided you build the right kind of community voting and flagging mechanisms. I can agree with that. We’ve found that to be true on Stack Exchange as well. It’s almost enough to make you a believer in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

      Almost.

      But there’s a deeper, more insidious problem that creeps into systems when the community is unmoderated. Stuff like, say, compilable James Bond Java ASCII art …

      … and so, so many more.

      These sorts of posts are wildly popular with the community. The cartoon question alone had over a million views by our extremely strict view counter — which easily translates to at least two million views, possibly three million. We don’t hate fun here, but we discovered that these posts become so popular over time that they truly start to drown out everything else on the site.

      It is quite possible for memes and jokes to overtake an instance. When looking to see “do I want to create an account on this server because the local feed is interesting and other neat people are here asking interesting questions” and seeing it filled with memes… it can get discouraging.

      … and this gets into “The Algorithm” which tries to prevent one community from dominating the local feed.

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    1 year ago

    Yes, I started blocking meme communities. I think I’ve reached my “I’m too old for this shit” age or something.

    I do still have the themed meme communities unblocked. Like programming memes and Star Wars memes. Those still give my old ass a sensible chuckle.

  • zLurn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I had to manually search every community with meme and shitposting in it’s name to block them. And even then I had to manually block a lot of others. I want to see memes and I enjoy the humor but it’s not ALL I want to see.

  • PaulDevonUK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thunder app just added the ability to block.

    I think I have finally blocked enything Meme or Shitpost. WOW! What a difference. I don’t need to scroll anywhere near as much.

  • Sentrovasi@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You know what? You just inspired me to do it. Definitely cluttering up my day and making me scroll way more than I should/had to.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Not so much in All feed and my Subscribed is feed is pretty curated, but if I switch to Top then pretty much yeah. 🤣

  • krimson@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    I have to say overall the memes are much better quality than what I saw on Reddit.

  • necroprancer@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Since I unfollowed them I had to do a double take on the community cause my subscriptions have no memes left, I still browse ALL for the whole experience, no bans tho

  • ultimate_question@lemmy.world
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    Ya it’s a little concerning how quickly people shifted to posting low effort crap in bulk in order to simulate a bigger community