Fair enough. My main reason for joining was to scroll through memes and engage with fan communities I’m part of. I used to have a reddit account a long time ago, but I left, and recently tried to make an account again, only to discover what a clusterf*** things have become, which sent me running here after weird stuff started happening with my new account.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Don’t know of such a filter. But did you know that that is the primary function of Lemmy? It is a link aggregator first and foremost. Everything else stems from that.
MechaGrima@lemmy.world 2 months ago
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Reddit is also a link aggregator. In the case of memes it just links directly to the picture.
In your case I would just subscribe to the communities you like and ignore all the others.
Nemo@midwest.social 2 months ago
Like hell. It’s a ranked threaded discussion forum.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse.
Nemo@midwest.social 2 months ago
It is what we make of it, and I need it to be the latter rather than the former.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The goal of a system is what it does. That’s true for communities too.
Lemmy isn’t much of a link aggregator. It’s more more a discussion platform. But it’s open for specializing some part of it, what is really great.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sure, but much like Reddit, the primary use case is just reading the article title and commenting based off of that. /s
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
No /s, we all know it’s true!
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
When it comes to news, I already know that very few possible events would have facts that were notable enough to change how I feel overall about the topic/event.
But, since I intentionally consume way less news than I used to, other than some Jon or John clips, I read my news.
Any fact finding I end up doing it just a hodgepodge of finding what I can through search, relying on primary sources where possible obviously.
So, when it comes to news, reddit was, and Lemmy is the place I go to be aware of events that I’d see if I watched legacy media / social media. And to just vent and maybe learn something.
I’m a title only kind of gal these days. Anything more, and I’d end up as a headline myself in short time.
ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey, we look to the comments to see if someone else read it and summarized it first before commenting!