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?
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?
I mean, I don’t know how I can be clearer than I was in the above comment.
It will have everything that people are posting on any communities that any single user on your home instance subscribes to. This means that the proportion of traffic on All will generally reflect what people want to post.
There are some social media websites that try to profile you based on your viewing or commenting habits or other such things and then do recommendations of content. Some of these, like Twitter, have caught flak for recommending content that someone is likely to engage with, which causes them to tend to recommend ragebait material.
But regardless of the merits of one recommendation system or another, mander.xyz is running Lemmy. Lemmy doesn’t, in 2026, have some sort of system to profile you, try to predict what posts you want to see, and then show you only that. It gives you three choices:
You can view All, which is all of the posts in any community that anyone on your home instance has subscribed to.
You can view Local, which is all of the posts on your home instance alone.
You can view Subscribed, which is all of the posts in any community that you personally have subscribed to.
What I’m saying is that it is very likely that the third option is going to very probably provide you with a higher proportion of content that you want to see. All will probably never reflect what you in particular are most-interested in. It’s maybe a way to help expose people to a sampling of what’s out there, reduce the barrier to start them using the Threadiverse, but you’re probably going to want a Subscribed list tailored to your interests.
I asked a simple question and you are bringing in twitter and other stuff.
Heh. So, there’s this Saturday Night Live skit from 1997:
https://youtu.be/OMNaTApbo8E?t=130
Harry Caray: “Hey, if you were a hotdog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?”
Host: “What?”
Harry Caray: “I know I would. First I’d smother myself in brown mustard and relish. I’d be so delicious. So would you?”
Host: “I don’t know.”
Harry Caray: “Don’t jerk me around, Norm. It’s a simple question. A baby could answer it. If you were a hotdog and you were starving, would you eat yourself?”
He gave an elaborate yes. Yes, memes are frontpage because that’s what is up voted. People like pics. Even in comments, I find my replies that include a photo get far more up votes than text alone.
Translation: Please confirm my existing views in a manner I can comprehend. I haven’t the capacity to utilize nuanced helpful answers. Thank you.