The rules limiting “mature-natured” jokes have been lifted after the general consensus of feedback was in favor of more openness. Thank you all for taking part of the discussion. I am always open to suggestions on how to improve the community as it develops.

On a personal note, as fall sets in for me, I realize I haven’t had a single mosquito in my backyard all summer.

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Apparently they were all married. :::

I have recently received some feedback about including sexuality as a topic for dad jokes. Although it was not the most constructive of feedback, some points were made. Sex as a topic is not the same as sexuality, and I apologize for not making that distinction clearer. I was basing my moderating on what was being reported and sex being a topic as understood for children closer to puberty, although sexuality such as LGBTQ+ parents/partners/people can be understood much earlier. While I stand by still keeping actual sexual themes (anatomy, sex positions, etc.) as an off-limits topic for the community, sexuality seems reasonable to include.

This community is not static; I want to do my best to maintain a place that can grow with the community while staying true as a place for humor in a world that has plenty of unpleasant things. I am not a bot, and am indeed a person that is open to having respectful discussions.

Tell me what you think should and should not be included as “off limits topics.” Should profanity be allowed, or possibly only certain words? Are there other suggestions you have? I will try to look at the common themes from any feedback and apply them over the next two weeks or so.

Edit:

To further clarify this post, gayness and the like have never been and will continue not being against community rules. The post in question was removed in error because I am a sleep deprived human and made a mistake about removing a post about sexuality instead of sex. I am apologizing, had already restored the post, and am attempting to make it right.

I originally intended this community to be a place for jokes that can be told to a person of any age, since essentially every other humor source was already geared toward adults. I thought a safe age to draw that line would be five years old. This is where the “clean” and not “adult themes” considerations were made for not including jokes that featured drugs, swearing, and sex. Parenting is a very personal endeavor, and families may choose to talk about sex at age five. Parenting choices and styles are not the purpose of this discussion, and I can understand the visceral reactions people may be feeling, and I’d like to keep this discussion about what to improve about the dadjokes community.

Early in the formation of this community I asked the same question and got all feedback to keep it “all ages friendly.” I’m now seeing some people want to keep it “all ages friendly” and many that want to lift the limitations and simply keep the spirit of the dad jokes. As many of you point out, dad jokes are not limited to younger children or even being dads for that matter.

So far, it looks like the simplest answer would be to do away with c/unclejokes and remove limitations in c/dadjokes about topics for jokes. Is there a compromise for people that want to keep it “all ages friendly,” such as using the NSFW tag for certain posts? Or vice versa, have a tag for “kid friendly” or “safe for all ages”? Or leave it as a “free for all” and let people sift through as they choose? If the majority wants the “free for all,” I suppose there could be a separate community specifically for “jokes for all ages.”

As a reminder, please be respectful of each other. Aggressive comments will be removed.

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Eh, probably not. 35 kids is plenty. :::

::: spoiler spoiler don’t ask meow :::

::: spoiler spoiler it was very time consuming :::

Just when I think I have somewhat of an understanding of the fediverse, there becomes more questions. So, I am the moderator for [email protected] and I see many “boosted” posts. Does that occur any time there is a comment on that post from Lemmy, or has someone made another account on Mastadon that is using the same photos from the dadjokes Lemmy community?

I know back in the old country (blueit er redhat or whatever it was) there was a rule for waiting a year or some time before reposts were allowed again. Should there be something like that here?

On an unrelated note, I got my friend the other day with a zinger. They were recovering from surgery and said they were moving up their diet and the nurse was getting them a liquid menu. I said, “LIQUID MENU? HOW ARE YOU GONNA HOLD IT?” …I think I could hear eyes rolled over the phone.

Has anyone else tried finding a lemmy.world community on lemmyverse.net? I don’t see any results for known communities that exist. I’m not sure if that is intentional or overlooked or what. The last I checked, that search was still being used to find communities that maybe haven’t been connected yet to a user’s home instance.

I tried a lemmy.world account and lemm.ee account, each with the username and then the email. The accounts work fine on the Voyager web app, just not the native iOS app.

I mod a community that frequently posts HD images. I tried posting an image natively through the Memmy app and then through a mobile browser, both of which gave me a “File size too large.” I was able to post a hosting link just fine, but the resolution was smaller when downloaded again through the browser or Memmy app.

Is there a Lemmy, Lemmy.World, or Memmy file size limitation? I’d like to know what the cutoff is, so I can post that in the community’s description.

Please see the updated sidebar. Do not post external links to websites such as Facebook and Instagram.

of when I handed my dad his 60th birthday card.

He told me, “You know one would have been enough.”

Does anyone know of a Fediverse alternative for Snapchat?

I know of Friendica, but it looks more like a Facebook. Not a Fediverse option, but so far Signal’s stories look to be the closest option I can find. Any input is appreciated.

I know customization comes after functionality on the priority list, but I would love a few color options in the Appearance settings to replace the blue. Purple, orange, and turquoise would be at the top of my list.

I prefer a dark background anyway, so the background would be less of a worry, but a graphite grey and beige would be nice eventually too.

Thanks to everyone that is working on this.

Update 2025-9-11: If you cannot tell this joke to a 5-year-old and they would understand, you should probably post it to the this community: [email protected]. Please message me if you think it could be different.

One community I mod is primarily for sharing images. I initially required uploading to services like Imgur or PostImages and post the link to Lemmy, to decrease hosting demand, but it’s much easier to simply upload it to Lemmy. Does it make sense to re-require uploading elsewhere? I don’t want to contribute to hosting overload, but I’d like an easy user experience.

@[email protected], if you can weigh in, I would appreciate it too.

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Made from Lonesome Traveller by Pete Lloyd

It is listed as “true black” but I don’t actually have an OLED phone, so correct me if it is not OLED true black.

I know everyone may be interacting with Lemmy in different ways, but the sidebar mentions the guidelines for the community. From the limited feedback I got, crediting the artists was valued, so I would like to continue that.

I know it is not as convenient to search, but the artist or source took the time to create or capture the image you are enjoying, so we can take 60 seconds to search for their name.

If you run it through Google Images or any other image search and cannot find an artist or source website, you can simply put “artist not found” or something to that extent.

Please let me know if these seems unreasonable or you have a different suggestion. Like many of you folks, I’m adapting the best I can to develop the community environment.

Don’t worry about uploading elsewhere; you can just upload the image with the Lemmy post and keep it simple.

It looks like some of the images were only available in the native resolution after clicking the hosting link (eg Post Image), which is an extra step for sharing. We can worry about hosting space later if that actually becomes an issue.

Let me know if you guys have other suggestions.