Yah dude. I am a super newcomer to Lemmy, but when I started up it was refreshing that it was cerebral and different and marched to its own beat. I never even really noticed how much image / meme content had taken over reddit, until I saw a place without it. I didn't agree with the tankies. But, there are tankies! This place is great. It's different and authentic. I like it. And now, over the last couple of months I've been carefully attempting to keep my subscriptions on Lemmy to the factual stuff and eliminate from the feed stuff that's memes or "Hold my whatever, I'm going in!" just kind of time-wasting.

And yet, even in the "good" parts I've been seeing this takeover of people who are... I don't even know what they're doing. I think it's just sort of this dopamine loop that they want to come on and yammer. I'm sort of assuming that this is maybe a problem only on the big instances, that may be better on Mastadon or on more form-a-community type of instances? Maybe? I hope so.