The "frontpage" is whatever you make it - don't join low-quality meme and news communities if you don't like their content.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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To fill the home page you have to go to all frontpage to find comment to follow. The all page is full of memes . I blocked ton of memes page, it is a lot better after that
I see this argument a lot and I still don't get it. Do you literally have zero interests? Follow your interests.
I follow my interests and want to find more alike and even expand my interests
Okay. Admittedly I still don't quite get it. No matter how much I read about football, I'm never gonna be interested in football. Maybe I'm just not open-minded enough.
It's super true.
There are some people who are huge contributors, but they don't take the time to actually consider if their posts are worth a shit.
I see the same recycled trash that is literally 20 years old. It's not a YOU problem.
I used to single-handedly keep the Jazz sub afloat, but I've given up, I'm not going to be the guy that posts 100 pieces of quality content, and nobody else even bothers... Or when they do, it's the same tired, recycled shit that's already been posted.
I used to single-handedly keep the Jazz sub afloat, but I’ve given up, I’m not going to be the guy that posts 100 pieces of quality content, and nobody else even bothers
So why not consider posting once a week instead of daily, for example? That way you'll keep it alive in case others turn up. Jazz is a pretty niche interest, it's gonna be hard until the R-site implodes. But even if you only get 5 or 10 others, that could make for a nice intimate community.
I've considered my participation, and I just give up
You need to understand that when nobody else contributes, there is literally no reason for me to be there
I can peacefully enjoy my music by myself and not bother sharing it with anyone. Because I literally get nothing out of it if I do
Most people are just lazy. They want to drink from the content fire hose that other people curate for them, but they don't really want to add anything. That is just the sad reality of online media sharing... Most people are just useless sponges, and it's not my job to wring out good content into their mouths.
People who don't share meaningful stuff are garbage and are a net negative. And the people who share expired, tired, garbagey old shit are almost worse. And that represents the bulk of contributors. Ever been to a science community here? Seen the "fresh" meme that hit the front page - an email from The Pirate Bay like 20 fking years ago?
It's just absolutely exhausting. And I'm not going to take up all the responsibility for a community, it's not my job.
That was quite the whiny rant. But you know what, I agree with you. I've noticed all these things too.
My own pet peeve is off-topic garbage. Have you seen !AskLemmy? There are constantly posts about US politics even though it's right there in the community rules: "No US politics". Even worse is !Showerthoughts, which should be renamed !EverythingButShowerthoughts - basically every post there breaks multiple rules, the mods are completely AWOL. I would always get downvoted for complaining so in the end I unsubscribed. The garbage party won, congrats!
The only possible solutions to these problems IMO are the same as for any virtual forum:
- clearly defined subject, if possible niche rather than lowest common denominator like politics
- activist moderation - i.e. more than just deleting and banning and pissing people off, but actually getting involved
Check out Hacker News for a community which gets absolutely everything right. The only one I know of, personally. But yeah, it's techies and the mod is literally paid.
Complete asshole.
You say I'm whining... Where is the whining? I'm just calling it like it is... I meticulously explained my position and carefully thought out word that you just don't agree with?
Lick my dick. I'm not reading the rest of your sermon.
Amazing caricature of a comment. A single word ("whiny") triggered you to jump straight to vulgar insults. If you had bothered to get try getting over your irrational anger and (what appears to be) insecurity, you would have found I basically agree with you. Your whining was justified. It's only a word.
the quality of the content is really low
Then please contribute and signal-boost good content.
If i were to document a live event i have no idea were i should post.
Post a link to a microblogging or streaming service in any communities where the event is relevant. I don't really think Lemmy is designed to cover live events.
The frontpage is filled with memes and news from third parties and most discussions are happening below stupid headlines.
That's why you subscribe to a bunch of communities that you are interested in and view the subscriptions only. Curate your feed.
It's a little better than it used to be. No reason to think that crawl won't continue.
Reddit is old news, so let's just hang here and make it a better place to the degree we interact with it.
One place that could use more attention is THE PACK. AROOOOOOOOOOOO
It’s getting better, just give it and the community time.
As others said: find your favourite communities and subscribe to them. Filter your front page by subscribed subs. Block annoying communities if you ever browse by all or local.
Other than that, what content are you looking for? Niche subs? I miss out on these too and I use a self-hosted Reddit frontend for these. I do not post, so that suits my needs.
A good way to find cool communities to subscribe to is searching topics that interest you on lemmyverse.net.
Once you have a good amount of subscriptions, you'll have a pretty good time.
Alternatively, if you diligently block each community from /all that doesn't interest you, the /all page also becomes pretty great to scroll.
Are there clients that don't have an integrated search function? Mine do.
They do, but the way the fediverse works is that if someone else on your instance hasn't already searched a community by pasting in its URL, it won't show up in a normal integrated search, as it wouldn't have federated to your instance (searching a community directly or subscribing initiates federation).
Lemmyverse doesn't have that limitation, it crawls every instance and creates a complete list of every community across all instances, making its search very valuable.
reddit is even worst THEY post the same news article as here.