Are there any Lemmy instances or similar platforms that don't allow memes? - Reddthat

> As a community grows in popularity, it often shifts from hosting insightful discussions to attracting memes, funny, and low-quality content. This change appeals to a larger audience interested in such content, creating a vicious cycle where valuable discussions are overshadowed and marginalized by the platform’s primary demographic. > > It’s the pendulum swing of pretty much every community on Reddit. > > * Community starts out with a small group of users dedicated to quality content related to the topic > * Community growth reaches a point where the most popular posts begin to trend outside of the community > * New users join the community after seeing popular posts show up in their own feeds. Growth accelerates > * Community becomes “popular” enough that posts regularly trend outside of the community > * New users flood in > * Users flood the community with low-effort content to karma farm > * Community now sucks. > > It happened to basically every big sub on Reddit once reaching a large enough size.