this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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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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-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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-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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[–] STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 217 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I am fine with the place settling for a bit. It would suck if this place was as big as other sites are overnight. I want to watch this place grow over time

[–] LillianVS@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Natural, healthy, positive growth! Not growth for growths sake

[–] soloner@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes! Enough of the "I'm doing my part meme" that isn't even real content.

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[–] Ew0@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

It ain't much, but it's honest work!

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[–] Metallibus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, my main problem so far has been finding communities actually worth following/joining/contributing to.

If suddenly tons of average people join, they won't really find communities, they'll deem that their analysis of Lemmy, and leave with tiny chances of a second chance. It'll just boom and bust in it's current state. Most people aren't interested in starting or growing a small community.

Meanwhile, if we stay at this size for a while, communities may form/grow, and as people trickle in, they'll grow bit by bit.

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[–] Goodbyeworld@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Commenting so I have commented in July.

[–] MrClayman@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Nice July comment. Here’s my July comment.

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[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 89 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] helixdaunting@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

This is a highly regarded comment.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sachasage@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] Uncle_Iroh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I was busy this weekend.

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[–] HereticHydra@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That is probably my fault, I'm cursed and the moment I ever join any organization or community, something invariably always happens.

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should join as many terrorist organisations as you can

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[–] deepdivedylan@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So Long And Thanks For All The Fish 🐟

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[–] Facebook@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Meanwhile, Threads is stronger than ever. Try Threads today!

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[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 year ago

Ah well...

Se you guys on..

on...

uhh, Lemmy?

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (9 children)

As an outsider, please take these helpful suggestions:

The logging-in process is messed up. For the longest time I couldn't log into any of the mobile apps (even though on the desktop it worked fine). The error messages were mostly not helpful.

Even now, I still get error messages that ask me to pick a language for some reason. This is after I've already typed up a comment and I am trying to post it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, but you could see how it would be a PITA when on mobile and all you wanted to do was write a short response.

Still no real idea what "instances" are and no idea if I am missing out on entire subs because I am on .world. No clue. Do people on .world only see this? 🤷

The layout on the website is barely passable. The link to go see a comment that was posted for you is just in an awkward location. I'm almost never sure what sub a post is coming from because the name of the person, the language it is in, and some other stuff is all fairly indistinguishable. Like seriously, there has to be someone on the Lemmy team that has some kind of graphic design background who could pipe in and spice up the UI a little.

There are random hangouts for seemingly no reason. Is it because of how much the Lemmy population has exploded over the last few weeks or problems with a link or what? Some feedback would be super helpful.

Why so many subs (are they called subs here?) with zero content. Not even like old content... literally go there and nothing is posted. At all. That is not conducive to growing a sub. If there are squatters who came here and loaded up on a bunch of sub names just to say they have them, and are not doing anything with those subs, then take the name back. No one is going to post a comment to a sub with zero threads. This is only hurting the community.

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Still no real idea what “instances” are and no idea if I am missing out on entire subs because I am on .world. No clue. Do people on .world only see this?

'Communities' are akin to subreddits. 'Instances' are akin to reddit allowing other people to spin up their own version of reddit with their own ruleset, but still under the reddit umbrella; with other reddit-users being able to access other reddits. But, those 'other reddits' might decide hey we don't like clowns so we are blocking clown reddit; clown reddit can no longer access the other reddits, without directly registering on them.

If you want to expand your lemmy experience, when you fire up lemmy.world, there is a setting at the top which defaults to subscribed (iirc), change this to 'All' and it will show posts from all other instances that aren't defederated.

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[–] XiELEd@lemmy.fmhy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Chill man. Even my activity is dropping now, but that's just me thinking that Lemmy will be self-sufficient while I read my books. It's true that Lemmy is not as addicting as reddit, but that's for the best. I've actually gotten into new hobbies whose communities I might eventually join here.

[–] AwkwardTurtle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Don't worry, I'm here to stay ^_^

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[–] B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Buh....But I like it here. No toxicity and genuine discussions. Also fuck u/spez.

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[–] ZcaT@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

R.I.P Lemmy, probably my fault 😢

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Bot purge or server issues?

[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a post the other day about other lemmy servers that had thousands of inactive users. The OP contacted the admins of those servers to let them know and several admins did purge a load of accounts.

[–] flipthetube@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I believe this is the correct and uncontroversial explanation.

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[–] TheKraKEN@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

People were pushing for everyone to comment at least once a day so all the lurkers were counted as active users. It's a little bit of ~~The Pot Roast Principle ~~ at this point.

Edit Ok, so don't just pick the first link off Google folks. That got weird fast. Have this Less insane version instead.

[–] Squids@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

man what the hell is that article on? It starts off explaining the pot roast principle which ok that makes sense (it's that we often do things not because of logic but simply we were taught to do so by our parents), but then it says that a message to take away from the story is that "persistence is a virtue" which I mean I guess but you're kinda missing the point? But then in the very next sentence where it says "sometimes things we take as fact are just superstition" it goes "and we should consider prayer as a healthcare alternative" and compares listening to only medical science as like cutting the ends off a pot roast. Not like "superstitions hang around for a reason though and there's perhaps some minor psychological value in these harmless cultural things" or "people who strongly believe in something tend to report more positively in negative times" or even god forbid "have you considered that prayer is like cutting pot roast ends?", straight up "have you tried asking God for help? When was the last time you did that huh? Why are you treating God like a teabag that's pretty ungrateful you dick"

I'm guessing you probably didn't mean for that to be the message (this article is weirdly the first to pop up when you google the term) but uh, maybe you should vet your articles? Unless you're really trying to say we should try praying for lemmy to succeed

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[–] Dazed_Confused@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I deleted my account, so there is no going back to reddit. Also discussions here seem better for me for some reason.

[–] flameguy21@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Less people = less assholes

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[–] ox0r@lemmy.fmhy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I honestly was worried about our growth maybe 3 weeks ago... It seemed there was a boom and then sort of an exhale after that initial rush in early June. However I'm subbed to about 130 communities. My feed is nice and busy where I couldn't even chance to see all the content. I can look through my sub list (LemmyTools addon plug) and catch up on some comms I missed in my feed. It's going great now as we are seeing steadily more upvoted posts (in the ks) now. Memes are off the charts. Tech and News seems to be hot. Im not super stitious well, maybe a little situous but I think things are going well and seeing a good base here form.

There will need to be some sort of stale/abandoned community cleanup or filter.

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[–] 0235@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ah I see you work in my work places wage and bonus calculation department.

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[–] dosesingko@dzle125.stream 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

As a cheapskate selfhoster who can only afford a few gigabytes of storage, It may come to a point where 30GB would not be enough to host the entire post history of the lemmy fediverse once user activity rises, and only those with deep pockets would be able to host archives of lemmy posts, just like usenet servers.

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[–] nieceandtows@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I liked Lemmy a little bit more before the July 1st influx. Not because of the people, but because there is now more ‘popular’ content that has resulted in less niche content. I’ve subscribed to so many communities that I don’t even see comments from many of the smaller ones because the larger ones dominate the feed.

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[–] heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I personally miss understood the fedivers and had multiple accounts on different instances. Currently I am only using one. I guess that is part of the dip.

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[–] danieldeer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For me it still feels a lot more silent than in the old reddit world. Nonetheless I enjoy the content here more than I did in the end of using reddit 🤷‍♂️

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[–] pao@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the memes communities are alive, that's all that matters

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[–] Valthorn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Aw man, and I just got here!

[–] ampeha@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

See you guys on the next trendy platform!

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[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What's with this meme format having repeated words at the end of the first line and beginning of the second. It happens so frequently it surely can't just be inattention.

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[–] anticommon@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Ooh no!

Anyways....

[–] yuki2501@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

LOL this reminds me of the numerous news articles that kept saying how Mastodon wouldn't scale and how it would never take off. The most ridiculous one: "Mastodon is crumbling". (We're over 13 million users right now.)

[–] glitchinthematrix@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Quality content over quantity

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