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Trippin' Through Time

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Tripping' Through Time

A Lemmy community for historic art pieces overhauled into modern memes.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

lemmy can now filter out entire political comms.

and most apps can filter out keywords. do at least "trump" and "musk" and you are good.

as a not-usian i keep it for the entertainment value of the crumbling empire though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any way to do this just from web browser?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

you can filter out comms from your lemmy settings > blocks or something.

keyword filtering is not yet a thing on browser lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yup, during WW2 you'd have seen a lot of references to Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I browse by "Subscribed" and subscribe to communities that aren't politically focused. Here's a list:

click here for a list of meme communities

MEMES, SOCIAL MEDIA REPOSTS, AND HUMOR

Most of these are currently active. (except for the ones with a * which were less active last I checked). Sometimes these include politics but that's not the sole focus.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

This is the exact reason why c/memes on lemmy.world has a "no politics" rule.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's amazing how much still gets through, but at least I'm not scrolling past a dozen "news" stories between every meme or comic post.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am leaning harder and harder on 'political comedy isn't comedy' as a rule. 'It's just a joke,' is a far too common smokescreen for people pushing terrible ideas and mocking people spreading bad ideas doesn't do anything to stop them. It can even help. Politics isn't supposed to be entertaining. It's the decisions that affect how we live our lives. We need comedy in politics like we need strippers in surgery.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

what I've leant into hard is the idea that those "clever comebacks" or "murdered by words" posts and communities do much more harm than good. 80% of the post is the most bigoted and hateful thing you've ever read, and 20% is "your mom lol". sharing hate speech with a lame joke tacked on the bottom is still sharing hate speech, turns out

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Counterpoint, comedy is often a coping mechanism for people dealing with difficult things, be it politics or something else. I'll agree that it's not how everyone wants to deal with it, though, and I also agree that not everyone does it in a way that's constructive (but I think that's in execution, not everyone is funny and a bad joke without proper comedy is certainly just elevating a bad message)

But I think if I didn't have political comedy, I'm not sure how I could deal with how absolute shit things have been for decades. For me that's not memes though, it's stuff like Last Week Tonight or something that actually is done with professional writers and researchers.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Not what I'm seeing, maybe I curated my feed differently? Idk maybe my server also blocks some?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

"Is he team Red or team Green?"
*Little did they know that beneath his outer attire lay his blue wizard robes.*
"I mean he's wearing boots, which is more than either of us have."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't block much stuff, but I only subscribe to things that don't generally feature US politics. So I essentially have two feeds: All and Subscribed. Scrolling All can be exhausting...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That seems like the ideal approach. I sometimes WANT a survey of what Lemmy is talking about and sometimes I don't. I've got massive tolerance for bullshit given my difficult upbringing but even I'm hitting limits and needing a break. It's madness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Same. I like to use All because I generally will get to see things, happenings, events, etc. that I wouldn't be otherwise seeking out. But it is damn exhausting that it's 90% what fucked up thing is happening in the government currently.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I always scroll all but I was on lemmy when there were only like 20 posts per day

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You gotta block the bots that post news stories to communities named after the publication.

Really clears up the feed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Also try to get the more spammy ones blocked by your server, it's a service for all other users as well

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