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?
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Wouldn’t it be better to have more serious threads and less memes that hint at political/news arguments?
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?
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.
The community, through it’s posting, voting, and reposting, has chosen Memes regardless of whether it’d be better.
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
Heat rises and some memes are fire.
Memes good.
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 block all meme communities. It really cleans up the feed
Your question is confusing because:
- I rarely see a meme on Lemmy.
- The term frontpage isn’t common, or it’s from a specific UI on Lemmy.
- There isn’t a frontpage channel used to curate posts.
Can you put an edit at the bottom of this, something like:
“”" 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”. “”"
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.
