I quite value content from targetted instances, but most of the "general" instances seem to be memes, posts on boosting lemmy, memes, reddit, memes bot posts, memes, reddit, memes, discussion on lemmy mobile applications, memes reddit, memes, and people talking about how the lemmy changed their lives oh and memes....
This is one of the things that I'm struggling with right now as well. My reddit experience was heavily curated in favor of smaller subreddits, to the almost complete exclusion of top subreddits. The thing is, since Lemmy is so new, it hasn't had the opportunity to build up a diverse array of specialized communities the same way. So basically right now all we have are mainly versions of the "big" Reddit communities, along with ones that decided to emigrate here from Reddit.
But it turns out, content from "big" communities is often the same low-effort, lowest-common denominator stuff regardless which platform is hosting it. Memes, clickbait, and ragebait permeate the top results, because well shucks, that's what people want to see and engage with, apparently.
I'm hopeful that if/when Lemmy continues to grow, that it'll become home to more active specialized communities. In the meanwhile, I've been trying to improve the experience as much as possible by A) trying to subscribe to more communities and B) slamming that block community button like I'm playing Hungry Hungry Hippos.
I think it boils down to the fact that a smaller userbase is going to naturally gravitate towards lowest common denominator content because there isn't enough critical mass to form niche communities yet. It's low-hanging fruit to post an angry meme about Reddit, since people being angry about Reddit is why Lemmy/kbin suddenly have so many people. But of those, how many want to talk about inflatable kayaks or vintage calculators?
As far as finding new communities, maybe this page will be helpful.
I have never read Reynolds looks like time for me to check him out.
Banks is the best post-scarcity space opera I have ever read. The galaxy (ours...) is filled with millions of sentient beings at various tech levels and many stories involve The Culture's interaction with civs below (and sometimes above) them on the tech tree. The human civ, The Culture is always my answer to the question: If you could live in any fictional universe, which would it be?.
Each book is a stand-alone story that stretch across about 800 years of time and can be read in any order. A good starting point is Player of Games.
Does anyone else feel the general lemmy instances are noise? (kbin.social)
I quite value content from targetted instances, but most of the "general" instances seem to be memes, posts on boosting lemmy, memes, reddit, memes bot posts, memes, reddit, memes, discussion on lemmy mobile applications, memes reddit, memes, and people talking about how the lemmy changed their lives oh and memes....
Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work (www.theverge.com)
It takes a surprising amount of really old tech to show you brand-new movies.
What are you reading this week? [7/16/23] (kbin.social)
What book is currently on your nightstand?...
PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote (kbin.social)
Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don't know...)...