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[–] gooey@lemm.ee 118 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (44 children)

It's very simple, most of the posts here are circle jerks (Linux, FOSS, boy howdy aren't we better than Reddit, communism) or rage bait.

I only come here when I'm having a good day and I want to reel myself in a bit

Edit: see below to see how far Lemmy users will go to circle jerk how much better they are than Reddit

[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (31 children)

Yeah the "All" in particular is pretty bad for the average person. They're not going to enjoy a Star Trek meme, followed by a Arch meme, a Self-hosted post, a grad-student Science meme, followed by a privacy post.

I'm also convinced Lemmy's "hot" algorithm is broken; I can easily find posts with ONE UPVOTE on the all feed. Hot is supposed to be a balance between acceleration and total vote count, but it seems like it just only acceleration. Go look at the front page of reddit. The difference is night and day.

We need a normie.world that has an "all" feed that doesn't contain 70% niche communities. We have c/humor, c/news, etc but they're completely diluted by overpowered niche posts.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also a weirdly large amount of "death to America" and whatnot.

[–] phr0g@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget rabid antisemitism and Hamas-shilling.

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