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I've noticed that there isn't a single Lemmy community, Mbin magazine etc. for Fediverse memes.

Is that because 99.9% of the Threadiverse came directly from Reddit, almost all Lemmy communities and *bin magazines are outposts of subreddits, and Reddit doesn't meme the Fediverse because hardly anyone on Reddit knows the Fediverse in the first place?

Is it, in addition, because especially Lemmy is too detached from the rest of the Fediverse to know what's memeable and to really understand memes about the Fediverse outside Lemmy?

Or is it simply because Fediverse memes go into other, more general communites/magazines where they simply drown in the flood of other threads?

I mean, I barely see any memes about the Fediverse anywhere on Mastodon. That may be either because your typical Mastodonian is not cut from meme-maker wood, or your typical Mastodonian doesn't know enough about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, or next to nobody hashtags their meme posts. so they're impossible to find.

And so I thought that this is more common in the Threadiverse, seeing as how meme-happy Reddit is.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Does Reddit have a subreddit for specifically “Reddit-memes”?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why don't you start a community?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

No time to run and moderate it. I'm not primarily a Lemmy user, I'm mostly on Hubzilla and (streams). It can happen that I'm absent from Lemmy for weeks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (27 children)

to be fair there isn't that much about the fedi in general that you can meme about. the closes you can get are in jokes but:

a) lemmy doesnt have them because this place is uncreative and only serves as a dumping ground from memes from other places when they aren't bickering about politics
b) in jokes of different parts of fedi do not translate well just because they share a protocol, given the extremely little overlap on people here
c) they're not really "fediverse memes" just because they happened in the fediverse, are they

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh you could absolutely meme about the protocol itself and the way it is implemented. lots of potential there.

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

[email protected] has them as a feature (NOT dedicated), but theres no content like that yet

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

Just a pity that the community is pretty much dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel like at least half of Lemmy is memes, and a good portion of those are about lemmy and the fediverse.

you're right, they aren't hashtagged.

I guess if you want to centralize them or hashtag fediverse memes specifically, you might want to start a community.

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

Interestingly enough, I was thinking about it earlier today.

There is some potential for memes, especially with the latest dramas/debates on several topics, as well as the on-going feud with Reddit

Would you like to create it? I have a few ideas I could translate into memes

My best creation from a year ago: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/1868051

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (14 children)

I've started a new (streams) channel for Fediverse memes, but I thought Lemmy could be another, even better place to post them.

I've already posted two creations of mine there, One does not simply implement FEP-ef61 with very extensive explanations and What if I told you the Fediverse is not only Mastodon? with only one link to explain it. I'm still trying to find the right amount of explanation for an audience that shall be mostly on Mastodon.

Beyond that, I've got loads of ideas. But I don't want to post more of them here than on (streams). So I'll first have to define my way of posting them on (streams) to what will be a largely Mastodon audience in a way that satisfies Mastodon's accessibility requirements the best. I hope to speed up my meme-posting rate then.

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

At this point you might as well start the community. Stick a post up asking for other Mods to help out.

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

I don't think it's wise to start a Lemmy community and then ask for other people to moderate it while being absent for weeks myself.

In case you haven't read, I'm not primarily a Lemmy user. I'm mostly on Hubzilla and second-mostly on (streams). It may actually occur that I'm not on Lemmy for multiple weeks in a row.

Also, I don't really want to take care of rules and that stuff.

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

i cant imagine a stream of posts so populous it needs its own community. just tag them correctly and plop them in existent meme channels

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)
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