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Memes…memes everywhere
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Ya it's a little concerning how quickly people shifted to posting low effort crap in bulk in order to simulate a bigger community
I'm not sure it's a "simulate" but rather that memes and other low effort posts expand wherever they are loosed to fill as much space (both storage and mental) as possible. They're easy to make, easy to post, and easy to consume.
A (new) lemmy instance provides such fertile ground.
For some nostalgia... https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/01/31/the-trouble-with-popularity/ ... which has some "heh, what a coincidence" parts to it too as it was comparing Stack Overflow to Reddit.
It is quite possible for memes and jokes to overtake an instance. When looking to see "do I want to create an account on this server because the local feed is interesting and other neat people are here asking interesting questions" and seeing it filled with memes... it can get discouraging.
... and this gets into "The Algorithm" which tries to prevent one community from dominating the local feed.