• Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • jonatan83@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • buttsbuttsbutts@lemmynsfw.com
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        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.

      • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        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.

      • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

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

      • Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.