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  • Might I invite everyone to use the Scaled sorting algorithm to see more of what the small communities have to offer! To avoid the firehose, you can default your feed to Subscribed and then liberally sub to the communities you like or might like. Then once a day or so switch to All+Scaled or All+Top Day to see what you might have missed and perhaps make some new community subs.

    • I never got into the fediverse when I first made this account because everything seemed to be from a few communities. Used Scaled this time and it's so much better!

      • I've been using it as default ever since its introduction along with a large subscribed list and it's been great. All+Scaled for discovery of new community discovery, All+Top Day for checking on what Lemmy was on about today.

        You can set whatever sort and feed defaults you like so that you don't have to set it every time you visit.

  • A lot of those types are just reposting reddit’s top content. Or copying from facebook.

    • on the bright side, now I don't have to look at reddit or facebook.

      besides, that's why I like fedimemes, bc it's usually fediverse-original.

    • I used to be critical of this but I've come around because:

      1. Creating memes takes ideas/time.
      2. My ideas are wacky and untested.

      So I might spend 20-60 minutes making something only for people to hate it. (This happened a lot more often in the beginning because I was bad and my ideas took a lot of photo editing.) I still make memes when I think the idea is worth it. Of course, I could just pander to what I think people want to hear, but I make memes for more organic reasons than that.

    • I mainly wish people would add a little something if they did that. Some kind of context, or a particular bit of the articles they share that makes it significant to them, etc. Basically anything that would make it seem like a human posted and not a repost bot.

      I pull a lot of my content from Facebook since most sources are photography hobbyists and charities, which just use that as a free quick and easy platform to reach the most eyes so they can focus on making content. But I try to contextualize what is going on in photos, can provide background to the species or the procedure being done, and answer any questions about things, which I feel is a good value add service by me sharing it here.

      I will post things from my personal work too, but the animal thing isn't my day job, so other than my weekly clinic shift or vacations, there's only so many opportunities I get to shoot my own owl photos! 😜 But I still get to bring a lot of daily joy to people that won't touch those other platforms, and I add a lot of research and experience they wouldn't get by going to the original source.

      There is still use being a straight content curator, but I think it's just really going the extra mile by adding something to it yourself that can enhance it.

    • I am guilty of this, mostly because if I have to repost memes from somewhere, I'd rather it be somewhere off the fediverse so people don't see double. It would be hard work to only post oc, and my oc isn't always received as well as reposts. I personally aim for there to be regular posts by someone in the communities I post in, and collecting reposts allows me to build a backlog I could never build with oc alone.

      Besides, I don't believe in meme ownership unless it took a significant amount of artistic talent to create. Since that includes none of my posts, I do onto others as I want done onto me.

  • Such a wholesome thread. 🥰

    Never noticed that phenomenon anywhere else

    Most of us (posters, commenters, voters and lurkers) know why we're here and why we need to do the work. We've been on so many platforms and gotten shafted. Many of us now know why and what needs to be done to avoid that for the long haul.

    Lurkers, step up your voting duties!

  • My posts have almost exclusively become pics of my horse lmao. But I do try to make the posts regular to do my part.

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