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If you mean the "how is your day going so far" type of posts, I don't think those are meant to be deceptive so much as to generate engagement by placing the post into people's subscribed feeds.

But if you mean the same identical post, that's not great - perhaps you want to unsubscribe from communities that do or even allow such practices.

For Japanese speaking people there is Misskey - it is FOSS and uses ActivityPub.

Usually whenever I want to make a post, I think back to the comments I typically receive and think better of doing so, then don't.

I'm sure this is happening elsewhere too, e.g. on Reddit, though balanced by a much larger user base (and ofc bots doing a lot of the actual posting, and sometimes the commenting as well).

I probably should comment less often too:-). Really, touching grass and talking with people irl is much more fulfilling.

A LARGE fraction of these can easily be curated by noticing what instance they are on. Hexbear tends to hold trolls, and while not everyone on Lemmy.ml is insane, conversely the most batshit insane comments I've received on Lemmy kept coming from there (less so than lemmygrad.ml, but still very noticeable).

So rather than leave the Threadiverse behind, I just personally blocked those instances, and I'm much happier ever since (note you can't really do that using Lemmy software as the "instance block" feature is misnamed, only offering a "community mute", but PieFed and a very select number of rare apps can do it, or custom Ublock filtering).

Welcome! While you are still looking around, you may want to check out PieFed as well & e.g. https://piefed.zip/ . It offers tons of features that Lemmy lacks, like categories of communities, which are user customizable and shareable, flairs (both user and post), polls, combining together all cross-posts across all communities, etc. Check it out and prepare to just fall in love with it!:-)

Even better, while Lemmy is written in the Rust language and adds features at the timescale of multiple years (not joking here) whereas PieFed is written in Python and adds new stuff literally weekly. So the gap in feature sets, instead of ever closing, will only continue to widen over time.

Although if you are going to stay with Lemmy, you would be hard pressed to find a better one than what you are on now. Fortunately, you may not have to choose, if it opens up a PieFed instance by the same people (discussion).

Quality over quantity:-D

Yeah uh... THAT'S why. 🤯

I went through and tested all of the Themes available on piefed.social - PieFed, High Contrast, Hercules 1982, Irix - 1998, Card Shadow, Fxomt, Trans Pride, HLT-Fruits - calm and soothing, Forest, and Dillo (although this one doesn't even show a list of Communities at all), on my Firefox Android device, and then I went through and did it all again while requesting the Desktop version of the page. I always see those two "Skip to" links, although sometimes the actual Skip to wording itself is greyed out.

Then again, I do not see those on the actual Desktop (Firefox or Chrome), so it looks like they are mobile-only links.

I suggest that it does not matter at all how long the Communities listing is, if you can skip right past all of them down to the Topics section below.

So yeah, it looks like this menu needs a UX tweak specifically for Desktop users.

Are you using the web UI?

What I see is Feeds, then Communities, then Topics, which makes perfect sense to me, and there is a button to Skip (directly down) to either Communities (bypassing Feeds) or to Topics (bypassing both Feeds and Communities) - so you shouldn't need to scroll if you can see and use that link?

Accidentally posted to Political Memes first. Whoops!

I dunno... that kinda sounds like it works too?

You are going to be SO tired of all that "winning"...