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The Lemmy apps are fine, but I've been disappointed in the quality of Lemmy posts and discussion. It's too many memes, not enough good quality thoughts, discussion, content, community. It's unfortunate. Wanted this to be the place I die.
Just block the meme communities and it makes this place a much more engaging site. There's obviously not the same level as reddit yet, but with time it will get there.
The problem is I like memes...I just don't want to ONLY see memes. It's just that Lemmy's sorting algorithm is not as robust as Reddit. With Reddit my subscription feed would show me all of my communities, even if there was a large difference in size of them. My small communities still showed up in my subscriptions feed because Reddit had a more balanced algorithm. With Lemmy, the most popular communities flood out all the others. If the devs made the sorting work better we could have a more balanced experience.
I've found that the trick is not to actually sub to meme communities, even if you want to see them. That way you can browse your subscribed feed for all the discussion on the topics you want, but then you can switch over to All > Top Day or whatever and still end up seeing most of the memes in there because they're so popular.
Yeah this is what I do. My subscribed feed is all news and discussion (and good discussion at that!), and then I go to All to see the memes. I first I subscribed to a meme community or two and it dominated my feed.
I figured that out too, I usually start off with my subscribed feed for interesting discussion and news articles (but you have to sub to the right sublems), then I might hop over to the all feed for memes and random pr0n and anything that maybe I missed or new popular communities. Then I jump over to another account on a smaller regional instance and hit the local feed there. I get plenty of interesting discussion and articles... and I think it is way better than reddit has been in the last 10 years. It reminds me of reddit when I joined 15+ years ago. So I've had the direct opposite experience as @Pmmeyourtoaster@lemmy.world , the discussions here have been exponentially better than reddit has been for a long, long time now.
I will say that for like the first day or two I spent a good amount of time searching out and subbing to different sublems. I also used multiple different tools to find them. Two of the main ones being the built in Reddit Migration tool in Voyager, another being https://sub.rehab
Yeah I think this is ultimately what I'm going to have to do. A bit annoying but oh well!
Good point. I think the sorting algorithms should be the number one priority for Lemmy devs at the moment.
Seems quite the opposite for me. Every 1 in 3 posts are either discussion or news reports.
Edit: actually it looks more like every other post with sometime 6 or 7 continuous ones without a meme
You can do the opposite too... Subscribe to the communities you like, and have that be your front-page. Then browse all when you're feeling freaky!
That's what I do, but they were mentioning that they wanted to browse all, but the memes were ruining it for them. I'm usually on all so I can keep an eye out for new communities to join