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Why is most content on Lemmy just old memes? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by martink@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I really like Lemmy so far, but sometimes my feed is just invaded by old facebook memes.

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[–] chrisphero@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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/newcommunities@lemmy.world or !newcommunities@lemmy.world

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)

My problem is that there ain’t enough content yet, so I browse all

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 15 points 2 years ago

You can also block meme communities, that's what I did.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What are your interests?

There is !casualconversation@lemmy.world !personalfinance@lemmy.ml, !parenting@lemmy.world and !moviesandtv@lemmy.film that are a bit out of the usual tech/memes/news bubble

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well… tech, news, memes. Also politics and history

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Then there's quite some content for you

[–] flipthetube@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] joulethief@compuverse.uk 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you tell us the name of the community you mentioned?

[–] chrisphero@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sorry, I totally forgot to link it (I had it copied already), but here you go: https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

I edited my post as well.

Edit: !newcommunities@lemmy.world

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !newcommunities@lemmy.world

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I assume they were talking about !newcommunities@lemmy.world