I understand that lemmy is a great place to be in for discussing our experiences with Android phones, but l find the forums/communities great for discussion purposes. The signup is very simple, just with an email id. Whereas in lemmy, an instance can have several communities, a community based on discourse would be exclusive for that purpose.
You know there’s an “All” feed, right? Guess what determines the sort when you view it by Hot, Active, Scaled etc.?
OK, but you know those are extremely simple. Not any thing like a social medias algorithm.
But ok, I will concede that something popular could be at the top of a list.
I think what you’re saying is, that many people have a problem with algorithms where the developers have their “thumb on the scale” to manipulate what content gets promoted or is considered popular.
But it’s not hard to find people who are also critical of the purer type of algorithm, where upvotes are used to sort content, and things get popular for being popular in a “hivemind” fashion, which Lemmy does just like Reddit before it.