Is it because it’s filled to the brim with old memes? That would make me want to leave a new place. Tried kbin social the other day and the first three pages were all full of the old memes being posted here and i spent half an hour or so trying to figure out how to filter them out but couldn’t so I just uninstalled.
Yeah there was some boring fucking trend going around where people posted 10 year old memes. I had to block four or five communities to have a usable lemmy experience.
In some ways this whole thing feels like WoW classic. A lot of people trying to relive the internet of their youth, while not realizing things weren’t actually that great back then either. I can haz cheesburger? What the fuck were we thinking.
Agreed. These “trends” that last for a couple of days before switching to the next one are stupid. People just start spamming old shitty content only because everyone else is too. It definitely makes Lemmy more active but getting my feed filled with low effort shitposts is not the kind of activity I’m looking for. I’ve been here for a month and I’ve already blocked more users/communities than I ever did on reddit.
Look i’m not that much of a curmudgeon that i begrudge people enjoying themselves and getting along, I just need to be able to easily filter content i have no interest in, memes/macros being one of those. I’m still accessing lemmy through mobile browser and can skim past all that quite easily on here, but kbin blew every image up automatically and it was 90% of the content and i couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.
Is it because it’s filled to the brim with old memes? That would make me want to leave a new place. Tried kbin social the other day and the first three pages were all full of the old memes being posted here and i spent half an hour or so trying to figure out how to filter them out but couldn’t so I just uninstalled.
Yeah there was some boring fucking trend going around where people posted 10 year old memes. I had to block four or five communities to have a usable lemmy experience.
In some ways this whole thing feels like WoW classic. A lot of people trying to relive the internet of their youth, while not realizing things weren’t actually that great back then either. I can haz cheesburger? What the fuck were we thinking.
We were younger. There’s no shame in being young, and liking things then that seem stupid now.
Agreed. These “trends” that last for a couple of days before switching to the next one are stupid. People just start spamming old shitty content only because everyone else is too. It definitely makes Lemmy more active but getting my feed filled with low effort shitposts is not the kind of activity I’m looking for. I’ve been here for a month and I’ve already blocked more users/communities than I ever did on reddit.
I’ve heard of one instance called beehaw that’s seems to be more curated so to say. It may interest you.
Thanks but I’ll rather curate my feed myself. Beehaw is a bit too woke for my liking.
Lol I feel like !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world polluted a lot of the internet lately.
Look i’m not that much of a curmudgeon that i begrudge people enjoying themselves and getting along, I just need to be able to easily filter content i have no interest in, memes/macros being one of those. I’m still accessing lemmy through mobile browser and can skim past all that quite easily on here, but kbin blew every image up automatically and it was 90% of the content and i couldn’t figure out how to turn it off.