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by default Lemmy's home page displays what people are sharing (the 'All' option). That's why my own Lemmy home page only display the content I'm subscribed to (no meme, or barely any)
As for the other part of your question why and how would people be forced to use memes? Memes are very low-effort, it's to be expected they gather more traction than more demanding type of contents.
Funny you should say that, I've spent like 4-5 hours revising a kinda niche vampires meme for posting soon. But yeah, most memes are a lot lower effort.
Indeed I should have been more specific and you're right: most of them are, not all.
To me lemmy frontpage much resemble reddit frontpage where most likely political and serious discussions are censored resulting in memes being more popular and the only tool people have to bring up certain arguments.
lemmy is not reddit, people simply share what they want to share.
This is why it's important to learn how to filer content you don't care to see. Like I told you I barely see any meme, if at all, because my home page is only showing content from communities I'm subscribed to and those are not focusing on memes.
So are you saying shitpost and memes is what most people want to share here?
Yeah