A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, “this” comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

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    1 year ago

    Posting for the sake of posting, this decreases the quality of posts significantly. Let’s say there’s a new meme trending, what would happen on Reddit (and other social media) is subs would be filled with uninteresting slight variations of the same meme. I’m not against memes, but we also should pay attention to whether what we are posting is minimally interesting, useful or meaningful. Lemmy does not have a “recommended”, “trending” or “hot” feed, so this should help significantly in this regard.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I just realized it 😂 But my point is, there is not an opaque algorithm trying to make people engage in nonsense.