Feddit.frWhy is lemmy frontpage filled with memes?
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I’m wondering: do people just like memes or are they being forced to use them to talk about relevant topics?
Wouldn’t it be better to have more serious threads and less memes that hint at political/news arguments?
Memes are my love language.
I don’t like anime, I don’t demand that the endless anime pages close so I don’t have to see them on all, I just make good use of the block button.
I block anime subs. I block furry subs. I think they should exist. I just don’t need them. Let people enjoy things, it doesn’t mean you have to.
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so are words
How many languages do you speak and why do you think there are more than one langue if words are universal?
most memes comes with a caption and a title.
Have a nice day.
Because it’s what people post? If that’s not your preference - which I can completely understand; I’d like more substantive content too - either post the content you want to see, encourage others to do so and / or block the communities or users that you don’t want to see content from.
I’m gonna post a meme to encourage people not to post only memes.
That’s the secret to all good communication: Speaking the language of those you wish to address.
Memetic self-subversion FTW!
by default Lemmy’s home page displays what people are sharing (the ‘All’ option). That’s why my own Lemmy home page only display the content I’m subscribed to (no meme, or barely any)
As for the other part of your question why and how would people be forced to use memes? Memes are very low-effort, it’s to be expected they gather more traction than more demanding type of contents.
Funny you should say that, I’ve spent like 4-5 hours revising a kinda niche vampires meme for posting soon. But yeah, most memes are a lot lower effort.
Indeed I should have been more specific and you’re right: most of them are, not all.
To me lemmy frontpage much resemble reddit frontpage where most likely political and serious discussions are censored resulting in memes being more popular and the only tool people have to bring up certain arguments.
lemmy is not reddit, people simply share what they want to share.
This is why it’s important to learn how to filer content you don’t care to see. Like I told you I barely see any meme, if at all, because my home page is only showing content from communities I’m subscribed to and those are not focusing on memes.
So are you saying shitpost and memes is what most people want to share here?
Yeah
Wouldn’t it be better to let people enjoy what they want and block the communities or posters who have content you don’t like?
Memes good.
Heat rises and some memes are fire.
You ask ‘wouldn’t it be better’ if there were less memes
The community, through it’s posting, voting, and reposting, has chosen Memes regardless of whether it’d be better.
A lot of answers in here say “that’s how the fediverse works, people post what they want and engage with what they want, what they don’t want they can unsubscribe or block to curate their own feed, to avoid seeing parts of what the collective is sharing/talking about when using memes”.
What you’re describing requires unilateral control over what content various communities will engage in. It doesn’t matter if that’s what people like, so much as it’s what people continue to choose. If they like it, great. If they don’t, they’ll either curat their feed and not have a clue what you’re talking about regarding memes on the Frontpage, or they aren’t bothered or even like the memes on the Frontpage and aren’t looking to seek out more nuanced discussions and serious threads.
So why are people choosing memes over more serious discussions?
I don’t know. My assumption is that they’re easier to put together than well thought out titles and clear discussion lines, and there’s a certain level of inherent ‘safety’ in posting a picture/meme that does a lot of the heavy lifting for you for a joke. Not that I don’t like them, just that that’s my read of why they choose them over discussion
Easier to spend 3 seconds reading a meme and updooting it then 3 minutes reading a article and doing the same. Don’t use all if you’re looking for high brow/non-sensational content.
I disagree, most memes have elaborated descriptions longer than the average title
What six paragraph memes are you reading?
I’m kind of sad this thread has so much thoughtful discussion and so few memes.
No. It would not. There’s plenty of thoughtful discussion to find here, but the memes are the joyful cascade that carries us between thoughtful discussions.
Your question is confusing because:
Can you put an edit at the bottom of this, something like:
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Edit: When I said frontpage, I mean the page that initially loads, the one that shows your subscribed channels or if you have none “All”.
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I personally use Lemmy for 2 things really, tech/foss/privacy news & discussion, and as a social media replacement (memes). When I used to be on the crappy socials, I would only really use them for memes, and left when I started to care more about privacy rights. The very first community I followed was 196 when they migrated away from reddit, so it was essentially what I came here for initially, and then found that the whole platform was miles better for discussion as well.
hey, if you want a feed of lemmy communities that aren’t focused on memes, politics, or tech, look at this: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
It’s an inevitable outcome of its structure. With memes, it’s usually just the low-information image, which is typically visible from the post listing. There’s no article to read, no video to watch (or just a very short one), no question to think about, and you can upvote it straight from the post listing, so there’s not even a link to click. In other words, memes have a very low barrier-to-upvote compared to other types of posts, and as a result, are more likely to get upvotes and end up on the front page.
For serious conversation what you really want is a forum or only join communities on Lemmy where memes are frowned upon.
I block all meme communities. It really cleans up the feed
Quick answer is that memes and shitposts get upvoted more than discussion, which is why it appears in your Hot/Top/Active sorted feed.
Look at my post history if you like. My top scoring ones are memes and the more discussion and text only posts tend to get only a bit of traction. I think the number of votes is also affected by how many people are subscribed, people cannot upvote it if they or their instance don’t see it.
If you want a “mostly discussion” feed with less memes and shitposts, try looking around for discussion focused communities (my local one is !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca), subscribe to a bunch and then make your default page the “Subscribed” feed. That way you can switch between what’s trending on Lemmy in general (All/Local) and what new posts are coming up with your realm of interest (Subscribed).
I block most communities that aren’t mostly memes.
Memes are even worse than short vids.