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Lemmy Shitpost

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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

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2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

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3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

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4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

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5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

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6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (44 children)

The only thing Twitter has over something like Bluesky is the fact that Bluesky is so milquetoast and nice that you don't really get any of the drama you get on Twitter. Like, I never see comic fans going "Black Bolt would DESTROY Saitama in a fight!" and anime fans going "Nu uh! ONE PUNCH!" on Bluesky.

Same with Lemmy tbh. Lemmy is 80% politics, 5% memes about politics, 5% memes about Lemmy being better than Reddit, and 10% Linux.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn't a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you're still on Lemmy...

...you're supporting the solution!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I do not see how Lemmy helps with anything other than allowing people another excuse for escapism and scrolling on the internet over actually developing life skills, seeing new sights, socializing with humans, getting better at understanding people, and actually making an effort to communicate with others, doing some small part to make the world better.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think the 'problem' the meme is referencing is supporting centralized social media run by corporations. I think the 'problem' you are talking about is more along the lines of tech addiction. Something can fix one problem without fixing every problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sure, and my point is maybe we all need to put away the internet entirely a little more often, it's literally killing us and the world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The internet can be an amazing thing. It's greed that's turned it into an incorporated husk.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love me a really well-made grilled-cheese sandwich, like with all the fixings and fancy bread. Truly one of life's pleasures.

But if gets moldy, even if it's no fault of my own, I will probably throw that shit away and pick another option. (This also kills the spread of the mold.)

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

To bother you in particular.

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

the internet can be a great place if you know where to look. the problem you are referring to is cellphones and general 24/7 connectivity. you can still get called with no data service, anywhere anytime. so ppl.. put away the phones, tablets, computers, gaming devices. I challenge anyone to go off grid for a week. sadly I know I can't.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Reddit is like CNN, which is Fox-lite, while xitter is ( oan and newsmax)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Don't we still have a few years before lemmy somehow enshittifies?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's impossible by design. If an instance enshittifies people will just leave the instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Isn't that the exact same argument for Twitter? If Twitter gets shitty, people will just leave? Because I feel like we're not really seeing that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

No, not at all, twitter is not decentralized, with a lemmy instance, if you leave, you lose nothing at all. With twitter, you can't take the content or your account

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

if .world says being a minor is bannable suddenly there's no minors anywhere on Lemmy. A minor example that is understandable, sure, but it's just to show that a single large instance can cause a lot of change if they decide to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But I don't think that's true at all.

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

I haven't seen anyone share their age that's less than 18 since that change 🤷‍♀️

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

I hadn't seen that before the change? I didn't even know there was one.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The protocol itself could surely start its journey if enshittification? In which case different, possibly incompatible, branches would spawn fragmenting the Lemmy space. Still miles better than the whole thing burning to the ground. But with no shareholders looming around (yet) we can hope it won't come to that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't see how, it's covered by a good license, and if it did it'd be forked in an instant. Can you give a historical example?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I guess the closest I know of is Maps.me and Organic Maps? Maps.me was open source, but got purchased and enshittified, so Organic Maps was forked from it. And now there is some drama with the Organic Maps shareholders/co-founders, so unless that is (or has it already been?) sorted out we're likely to see another fork of it.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the main dev(s) members of lemmy.ml? So I can certainly see how differing political views could skew the development of the main branch of Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The organic maps founders seem to have convinced the volunteers that a private company would be best to manage an open source project. The community got duped hard.

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

I agree. And luckily for Lemmy and all other FOSS projects the worst that can happen is a fork of the project is created with a potentially fractured community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's a bad example because it got forked and it wasn't an actual problem?

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the main dev(s) members of lemmy.ml[3]? So I can certainly see how differing political views could skew the development of the main branch of Lemmy.

People say this all the time but never can give even one example of a potential problem. Preemptive forking sounds insane to me. The notion that lemmy might enshittify because you don't like their politics is also ridiculous when their politics are anti-capitalist... aka the politics that are least likely to enshittify.

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

But that's exactly what I said in the beginning. The worst that can happen is the original creators take the project in an undesired direction so a fork is created.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Not really. It's not a centralized platform by design - unless you're talking about the flagship instances, which are a common problem with federated projects

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It'd be pretty difficult, any instances that start that shit would be defederated with a quickness, but I don't want to be too optimistic lol

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lmao well I found this place cause they won’t let me on Reddit anymore. They didn’t appreciate my colourful thoughts on Musk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Honestly you could get banned for upvoting someone who stated someone seemed agitated and should try following dear leaders advice and take a shot of ivermecrin, a shot of bleach, and take a nap.

Watching reddits fall over the span of 12 years was certainly a thing.

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