The most upvoted stuff, yes, but if you would block those meme communities (or aren’t subscribed), you actually do get to the substantive discussion. The problem is the sorting algorithms right now, hot ranks recent 2 upvote posts much too high, while top ignores smaller, less upvote-heavy communities.

We either need something in between or hot to finally take community size into account.

Or there needs to be some way to easily filter out certain communities quickly, because most people want to see memes once in a while, just then return to some meme-free content at other times.