probably the piefed social credit score killing those communities tbh
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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I just block meme-posters and meme communities and my Fediverse stays interesting as a result. No need to convince/wait for the world to change when I can conveniently block the slop myself, it's one of the most appreciated features of PieFed/Lemmy imho.
Recall that whole db0 defederation of feddit.org? Was not a problem for me at all because I had already blocked the instance long before the whole thing kicked off simply because I didn't speak German and didn't want my feed full of German posts I couldn't understand anyway.
you can just untick "german" in your language settings...
Only English is ticked... Don't worry mate, I already solved the problem!
Lemmynsfw solved this by disabling downvotes. I don't think memes were a problem there.
An alternative is strong moderation to keep off-topic comments and posts out.
My instance disables downvotes and it's much better.
I really think removing downvotes or requiring the downvoter to explain the downvote would make communities better.
Is there any way to stop the mods from going mad with power?
Isn't the situation in gonewild a clear sign it'd be wise to set up two separate communities? gonewildgals and gonewildguys or something? If a community is "too broad", niche content will always lose out. The answer is usually setting up a new community specific to that niche.
Fighting low-effort posts and memes either means setting up a meme community, more moderation on the posts or both.
People could discuss pretty much anything in old school forums which had only a handful of boards. Now we need millions of communities just because Reddit has them as well, even if there isn't enough activity to justify them. I feel like the Fediverse already has enough fragmentation issues as it is because of all the similar communities in different instances. Separating niche communities into even more niche ones when those communities are barely active to begin with just doesn't make sense. At some point we have to ask if the problem is the content or the voting system itself.
I like that on hexbear and some other communities here you have just an upvote and no downvote. It makes posters who disagree have to either just move on or actually make a decent argument instead of just pressing the βI donβt like thisβ button.