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[–] Dogs_cant_look_up 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Ghostalmedia 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol I feel like [email protected] polluted a lot of the internet lately.

[–] Dogs_cant_look_up 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You should just need to block the community. There's a 🚫 symbol on the sidebar of a community, just click that and the posts should stop showing up on any of your feeds.

If you're on mobile, the formating is kinda fucked so you'll have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is that multiple unrelated communities also saw a surge of old memes when the original community blew up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sure, yeah.. I thought it was harmless fun, myself

[–] FlyingSquid 1 points 1 year ago

For a while, it felt like Lemmy Shitpost needed to outcompete it.

[–] Dogs_cant_look_up 5 points 1 year ago

Oh i see it now! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

To me that all felt very much like a Reddit thing. Somebody made a joke about that about posting old memes that was MAYBE mildly amusing, then everybody went ahead and killed the horse before beating it for 24 hours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard of one instance called beehaw that's seems to be more curated so to say. It may interest you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We were younger. There's no shame in being young, and liking things then that seem stupid now.