..........Obama? GUYS!!! OBAMA HAS A LEMMY ACCOUNT AND I FOUND IT!!!
Or maybe I found Obamas clone.....wait, how much of sci-fi is real now? I mean, I know we got the star trek communicators, and space travel......I know we did SOME cloning. We cloned a sheep. Have we cloned a president yet? Hopefully not reagan.....or bush.....or trump.
God it feels weird knowing that trump was actually president. That is a real thing that happened for 1 full term. And the weirder thing is, it's scarily close to happening again in a week!!!
Ok......I guess the actual status of it wouldn't be official until January, but you know what I mean!
I posted twice, automod got one of them, but the other was gloriously empowering. Can recommend 8/10
Edit: I'm definitely a lurker though. We have value and votes, and are important to the ecosystem!
Résumé: The Revolutionary Impact of Meme-Driven Discourse on Lemmy
Overview:
This article explores the influential role of memes in shaping discourse on Lemmy, a federated social media platform known for its decentralized dialogue. By analyzing user interactions, the study reveals how memes foster engagement, community, and intellectual coping mechanisms within the platform.
Key Findings:
Increased Participation: Memes encourage even passive users to engage, promoting active involvement with minimal effort.
Community-Building: Shared humor and inside jokes create a collective sense of belonging that bridges differences among users.
Conceptual Compression: Memes can distill complex ideas into easily digestible formats, simplifying otherwise intricate subjects.
Cognitive Offloading: Users report relief and mental rest when encountering memes, breaking up the intensity of serious discussions.
Methodology:
The research involved ethnographic immersion in meme-centric Lemmy communities, participant observations, meme analysis, and interviews with dedicated users.
Challenges:
While memes introduce risks like oversimplification or poor-quality content, their benefits—facilitating meta-discourse and offering coping mechanisms—largely outweigh these issues.
Conclusion:
Memes are integral to Lemmy’s ecosystem, enhancing user interaction, community cohesion, and dialogue through their unique blend of humor and insight. This positions memes not just as entertainment but as vital communication tools.
Future Research:
Suggested directions include cross-platform meme studies, deeper anthropological analysis, and criteria for evaluating meme quality.
most people will forget something that was already posted. 2 of my most liked posts are me posting the same song a month apart and no one realised it (not even me until i checked 😂)
Yeah THAT blows my mind a bit? I posted to an empty community and it got deleted. What the fuck? It wasn't offensive and it was on topic. It was a niche community too.
There is an API you can use with pythorhead or other libraries to schedule posts very easily. @[email protected] uses it to automate loads of posts from his pic collections in local storage, and will gladly provide you with source code and assistance.
To everyone saying that someone has already said what they want to say: post anyway. You'd be surprised how significant tiny differences in perspective can be.
Nah. The real cancer is the quiet plurality of users who just scroll through the post feed and only voting, not even reading comments. The ones who are responsible for the occasional thread that has entirely negative comments but gets upvoted to the stratosphere anyways.
I could pay the trans people in /c/[email protected] what I kinda owe them since I don't techically enter the community itself, just comments sections and see the memes in my subscribed
But if the people who actually post something have not posted yet, or example because they were just born and thus too busy learning how to breathe to post yet, are they born cool even if they are then prevented from posting? Is a born-cool poster who loses the ability to post through a freak curling iron accident retroactively unborn cool? Is a born-cool poster who has yet to make their first post Schrödinger's cool poster until they actually make their first post?
What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there's this downvote feature.
The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have.. discussions. Well, perhaps not so much this particular sub lol. So it's annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can't be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It's like the equivalent of people just going like "lol no" and then walk away.
Frankly it's a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.
But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation tool. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable. They'd get naive, hype driven upvotes if left alone. And I like that there's a community mechanism to bury them.
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"I'm in this picture and I don't like it"
..........Obama? GUYS!!! OBAMA HAS A LEMMY ACCOUNT AND I FOUND IT!!!
Or maybe I found Obamas clone.....wait, how much of sci-fi is real now? I mean, I know we got the star trek communicators, and space travel......I know we did SOME cloning. We cloned a sheep. Have we cloned a president yet? Hopefully not reagan.....or bush.....or trump.
God it feels weird knowing that trump was actually president. That is a real thing that happened for 1 full term. And the weirder thing is, it's scarily close to happening again in a week!!!
Ok......I guess the actual status of it wouldn't be official until January, but you know what I mean!
username checks out
Akshually, we're called lurkers.
Since you already complained about the wrong vocabulary, I can continue with my lurking ways.
bit of an over reaction wouldn't you say
Said the cancer. /s
650+ posts and 1700+ comments (from this account). Its one of 7. 😭
A real Lemmian Hero!
I'd give you gold, but all I've got is lead and a particle accelerator. Good luck!
Just doing my part
Nor have I
Sorry for spamming two posts in a row, I just needed to get that out of my system
Na na not a problem mate, there's original content and they're both different. Keep it going. Add a third and it'd still be fine
No, fuck you.
I can't! I steal my stuff from here!
Nah as long as they Upvote content and don't complain about content being posted they can stay lurkers.
(If they do complain they can be the change they want to see and post, that's what I did)
I posted twice, automod got one of them, but the other was gloriously empowering. Can recommend 8/10 Edit: I'm definitely a lurker though. We have value and votes, and are important to the ecosystem!
I made one post and feel like I've earned my retirement.
Ok, I made it on a prior account but I inherited the retirement dammit!
But i don't have any feet pics
Do you have feet and a camera?
Hey I comment from time to time, that's contributing! Kind of!
Read-onlys be like while upvoting
I haven't even finished reading this and I'm saving it as pasta. The fact you put this much effort into a shitpost is amazing.
Edit: this is legitimately well written to boot. Amazing job @[email protected]
I figured, but still
Here's a more conscise version
Résumé: The Revolutionary Impact of Meme-Driven Discourse on Lemmy
Overview:
This article explores the influential role of memes in shaping discourse on Lemmy, a federated social media platform known for its decentralized dialogue. By analyzing user interactions, the study reveals how memes foster engagement, community, and intellectual coping mechanisms within the platform.
Key Findings:
Increased Participation: Memes encourage even passive users to engage, promoting active involvement with minimal effort.
Community-Building: Shared humor and inside jokes create a collective sense of belonging that bridges differences among users.
Conceptual Compression: Memes can distill complex ideas into easily digestible formats, simplifying otherwise intricate subjects.
Cognitive Offloading: Users report relief and mental rest when encountering memes, breaking up the intensity of serious discussions.
Methodology:
The research involved ethnographic immersion in meme-centric Lemmy communities, participant observations, meme analysis, and interviews with dedicated users.
Challenges:
While memes introduce risks like oversimplification or poor-quality content, their benefits—facilitating meta-discourse and offering coping mechanisms—largely outweigh these issues.
Conclusion:
Memes are integral to Lemmy’s ecosystem, enhancing user interaction, community cohesion, and dialogue through their unique blend of humor and insight. This positions memes not just as entertainment but as vital communication tools.
Future Research:
Suggested directions include cross-platform meme studies, deeper anthropological analysis, and criteria for evaluating meme quality.
Sorry. The topics I know about and find something to share are the same for lots of other people and literally always someone beat me to it.
Plus I get anxious thinking that I'm gonna have to reply to a lot of people.
But thank you to all of you who do post.
most people will forget something that was already posted. 2 of my most liked posts are me posting the same song a month apart and no one realised it (not even me until i checked 😂)
I can only post when I'm feeling strong, because I'm terrified of y'all disapproving. :(
i love posting in dead communities and getting downvotes.
Yeah THAT blows my mind a bit? I posted to an empty community and it got deleted. What the fuck? It wasn't offensive and it was on topic. It was a niche community too.
Just because of that I'm gonna lurk for a whole week straight and theres not a damn thing you can do to stop me.
chemotherapy?
I'm Comment-only. I don't read.
I comment only. I don't read.
but I read comments
Thank you for getting the joke. I was really worried no one would :-D
There is an API you can use with
pythorheador other libraries to schedule posts very easily. @[email protected] uses it to automate loads of posts from his pic collections in local storage, and will gladly provide you with source code and assistance.There is also schedule.lemmings.world where you can schedule all kinds of stuff with your account, using a nice UI.
That's so cool! Thank you for sharing!
Every time I post it's in the wrong community or against some rule and I get the hammer
I post things I want to see, but I'm apparently alone in that desire
Been there, felt the pain
To all the "Someone already said it!" Filter by hot. Or even better new. Then you can be the first to say your beige take.
Can't. I get way too invested in this shit and its bad for my mental health.
To everyone saying that someone has already said what they want to say: post anyway. You'd be surprised how significant tiny differences in perspective can be.
i posted once!
Jesus man I remember your username, either you comment a lot or post from a different account? What is it?
1k comments in 2 months. Something near 16 comments a day. Pretty active by most counts so yeah you might've seen him lol
Yep. Also seen you. I love recognising names on here.
look ma, no life!
btw you should refer to people on the internet as "them"
The math checks out.
I just bought a drone, hopefully it arrives by this weekend and I'll start posting some pictures
Edit: it did not
I posted about kanye on a community for kanye and still got hated for it.
hey, I got social anxiety, I'm not posting BECAUSE I don't want to hear people's thoughts on me.
And then you get to hear peoples thoughts on you not posting anything
Nah. The real cancer is the quiet plurality of users who just scroll through the post feed and only voting, not even reading comments. The ones who are responsible for the occasional thread that has entirely negative comments but gets upvoted to the stratosphere anyways.
So we will cancer on
I'd have to figure out how
That would take literally seconds of effort.
Here, I'll help. What platform do you use to browse Lemmy?
Exactly, literal seconds of effort :(
Lemmy.world
I do my best but I'm not that creative.
Every once in a while my two brain cells will bounce together and come up with something half assed.
Lame.
Sup.
I could post in the appropriate community or....
I could pay the trans people in /c/[email protected] what I kinda owe them since I don't techically enter the community itself, just comments sections and see the memes in my subscribed
But I'm shy 😳👉👈
But if the people who actually post something have not posted yet, or example because they were just born and thus too busy learning how to breathe to post yet, are they born cool even if they are then prevented from posting? Is a born-cool poster who loses the ability to post through a freak curling iron accident retroactively unborn cool? Is a born-cool poster who has yet to make their first post Schrödinger's cool poster until they actually make their first post?
So the two categories of people are those who were born cool and those who were born between June 22 and July 22?
What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there's this downvote feature.
The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have.. discussions. Well, perhaps not so much this particular sub lol. So it's annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can't be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It's like the equivalent of people just going like "lol no" and then walk away.
Frankly it's a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.
I agree.
But also downvoting is very useful as community moderation tool. I participate in some communities with regular, scummy spam posts that are technically off topic and not quite bannable. They'd get naive, hype driven upvotes if left alone. And I like that there's a community mechanism to bury them.
Yeah I don't think it's entirely useless, it's mostly useful for filtering out spam posts and unrelated stuff from communities.
Just on a comment/discussion level it feels like it's not that great.
There are instances who don't have 'em and even frontends that allow you to hide it.
That's one reason I picked blahaj for my instance- no downvoting