Does anyone else feel the general lemmy instances are noise?

stevecrox@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 0 points –

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.

I would browse hot on reddit as a way to see things outside my subscribed bubble but I have given up. The signal to noise ratio is terrible.

Is anyone else experiencing this? How are you discovering magazines?

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I would guess users who really want to participate, but having nothing to say. Memes are the easiest form of participation and everyone is unloading several years' worth from their folder like nobody's business.

Same with the proliferation of news articles, though those at least have a much higher likelihood of engagement. I'm not a very tech-literate person, so I'm really stuck scrolling by a lot of those.

The comments section can be depressing, and I sense I'm typically the only person responding to a lot of them at all. For a notably smaller userbase that should in theory carry more visibility, there's some neat stuff that inevitably dies in new.

I'd love to block lemmy.world but keep communities am subbed to (whitelist|unblock)ed . Not just i don't care much for memes , but there's lot of shitty peops on there (racists|reply guys|.*)

I feel it's mostly politics, which I really was not looking forward to - getting away from the fever pitch, very angry American politics constantly flooding Reddit was a welcome break for like five whole minutes, there.

I try to block most obvious political shit, it just doesn't help because there's dozens and dozens of subs shovelling it out on the "front page".

You forgot porn. I'm blocking unwanted communities as I come across them. Slowly separating the wheat from the chaff.

Wait, there's porn?

So much porn, regular porn, amateur porn, furry porn. I have 18+ turned off and some of it still slips through sometimes.

I keep reading this but it literally never shows up in my feed. I have filters off too. I wonder why that is.