I have no real interest in anime. As far as I can remember, I’ve never clicked on any anime related links on Lemmy, but it seems like every other post I see is about anime, a lot of them have to do with someone or something called Moe. I keep blocking them, but more show up. How do I stop it?
The default sort prioritises posts from within the last few minutes above posts that are hours old with far more votes. If one anime fan posts a handful of things right when another checks their feed, there’ll be anime posts at the top for half an hour or so, as they’ve got the most votes per minute.
I see. So they game the algorithm by spreading their posts out every few minutes so that they are constantly at the top.
It’s not really gaming the algorithm. There’s no karma here, no one buying high-karma accounts for advertising, and no one chasing attention when the maximum attention a Lemmy post gets isn’t very much because there aren’t very many users, so there’s no point trying to artificially boost engagement. People are just posting things when they’re online and not posting things when they’re offline, and there are few enough users that it doesn’t take many to create a pattern, and it sounds like you just happen to check at a similar cadence to a few anime fans, so keep seeing things right after they’ve browsed and upvoted what they like. I just checked the All Communities Hot feed on lemmy.world with no communities blocked, and only see one anime-related post in the first five pages, so they’re clearly not constantly at the top. Considering the demographics that would typically use Lemmy, that’s a really low number.
There are plenty of attention whores on Lemmy. They don’t do it for money. The Moe fan was doing it because they wanted as many people as possible to see their collection of suggestive anime of underage girls. What got me to start blocking everything was a drawing of a young girl with white liquid dripping on her face. Yet the uploader was angry at me for calling them out.