SMP (SM Player) seems better than MPV, and even VLC in various ways.

Ignore the cat pic? Why did you add it?

That’s a nonsensical response.

The more engaging and interesting posts will naturally float to the top

This is not true. We have a decade of evidence showing that what floats to the top is the easiest to digest content - meme images.

I’m sure you’re noticing, you don’t have many people who agree with you.

Yep. Most people are unintelligent and thus love their low-quality content. Thankfully, the Lemmy devs decided to build a filter that’s coming with the next update.

Am I? What is it that we’re both doing?

No thanks. All I need to do is wait for the next Lemmy update. Then I’ll be able to block all the low-quality garbage.

Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else’s writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.

I don’t know what you’re referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.

a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc.

Sure, that’s a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.

discussion posts, memes, photos

These are not remotely equal. Low-quality, mindless meme content rots your brain. You should stop consuming it and start downvoting it.

Calling articles “lazy content” is extremely unintelligent. I’m disgusted that you should say that.

The “original content” you refer to is often screenshots of social media posts and reposted memes.

Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?

This is such a bizarre thing to say. Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators. Their whole benefit is being a single site where people can share & discuss news, instead of having to visit a dozen different websites every day. Reddit started to promote low-quality meme content, which massively degraded the quality of the platform. It’s extremely disappointing to see people on Lemmy promoting it as well.

Low-quality, mindless meme content, yes. It rots your brain. You should stop consuming it.

I can’t wait for Lemmy v0.20 so we can block this garbage.

Isn’t there a way to appeal the shadow ban?

Some forums already federate with lemmy. More will in the future. Setting up email notifications means you don’t have to visit multiple sites each day.

They can’t code but want a feature/fix implemented and the dev team is limited?

Lemmy instances are not really dependable enough for that. Setting up your own instance would be better, but there’s still a discoverability problem because instances don’t automatically add you to their feeds.

Requiring domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site’s domain names is unenforceable?

It makes high-quality posts look the same as low-quality ones.

How does it do that?

It did answer that; by making them look like image posts.

Why would they do that?

The OP already answered that.

You’re really going to have to dumb it down for me, and I might not be alone given the number of down votes this post, and your comments get when you mention it.

Yeah, it’s pretty disturbing how many people are struggling to understand something fairly simple. But I’ll reword it in another post in the future.

It’s explained in the OP.

You should look up the definition of those words.

Could you elaborate?

Yep, that’s another good reason I missed.