So.... everyone?

Yep, actively moderating your own content, curating your own feed... that's the solution.

It worked on reddit for a long time, untill the powermods went totally nuts and the massive waves of paid trolls and bots invaded.

It still works with RSS feeds, which I guess is just technology we are all supposed to forget exists, because its built for a paradigm of many people having many personal websites, as opposed to many people all being on maybe 4 big websites.

If corpos weren't evil, they'd expose their recommendation algorithms and just allow you to tweak its parameters, for yourself, so you could do your own advanced curation.

But that would make them about as much money as a dating app with no supscription nor signup fees, so, its a non starter.

I sort by Hot and barely block anything tho I actively ignore the tankie triade (or the two that are confederated with my instance, grad isn't)

That's all fine and dandy until your block list is a mile long and you only get a handful of posts a day anymore because that's what you're left with when you filter out the furries, anime porn, ragebait, OMG LINUX, thigh high socks, etc. The OP is right, Lemmy has just as much of a content problem as any other place and the blame is largely on the users.

At least on Reddit, despite its massive flaws, I get actual discussion that's more than a sentence or two of "I agree bad guy is bad!" The amount of low effort engagement in here is atrocious.