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One of my issues with Lemmy so far is how meta it is.
Reddit is often meta, sure, but 60% of the content I'm seeing here (while browsing Everything) is about how much better Lemmy is or whatever app people are using to access it. Let's get back to shitposting, articles, and memes please. I want this platform to work and I don't think it will if this content continues.
Your problem is browsing Everything. There's a lot of content on Lemmy that isn't meta-posting - you just need to curate your own feed, like on Reddit.
Subscribe to some more casual places for a funner frontpage.
Thanks. On reddit when I was bored of my frontpage I'd go on /r/all to check out other subs and maybe subscribe if I liked the content. That has been my strat here and it isn't panning out so far. Looks like I gotta change it up.
Everything on Lemmy is cancer
Edit: I'm obviously talking about the "Everything" tab, curated Lemmy is great.
Cool. Goodbye then.
Bye 👋
Joking aside, I'm talking about the "Everything" tab. Just like r/all on Reddit, it gets cancerous fast. And that's a sign of a growing community.
Depends on what you subscribe to like and favorite all has been very fun to me
Yeah it's obviously a matter of opinion :)
Enjoy your "Everything" tab!
If all sucks my advice would be stop subing to meta feeds i just get science and cat and star trek memes in mine
Thanks for this!
Thanks for this. Now I just have to hope some of the communities I briefly looked through like the history related ones don't suffer from usdefaultism. It seems like meta and defaultism kills all interests for me.
This is the only comment/post you've ever made, and it's meta lol. Be the change you want to see
Lemmy is still fairly new to most people here and most of these new people came from reddit. A group of people who majorly are having a single, shared, novel experience (moving from reddit to Lemmy) are gonna talk about that thing until it stops being novel.
It's already getting considerably less meta so I'd just enjoy it for what it is, contribute content to the communities you like, and just allow the meta conversations to naturally subside.