• Reygle@lemmy.world
    2·
    23 hours ago

    I was here for the Tesseract news and that was one of the best afternoons I spent, finding my name on their shadow-block list.

    This is where I had that afternoon.

  • zollus@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    Then 3 years later your instance blocks lemmy.world so you have to make a new account on another instance

    …

    …

    Hello everybody, how is it going?

  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    Shitpost is a catchall community. You can post just about anything here. There’s a lot of discussion that goes on in some posts, and other posts that are simply ‘heh bewbs’ level content.

    I love the randomness of it because it jives with the way my brain works. I flit about like a methed up hummingbird, and so does this community.

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 day ago

      It’s becoming the main discussion sub because it has the most eyeballs at any given time. Also, not a lot of repost bots because there’s no political rage bait or random articles with zero comments. Just pure shitty memes.

    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      2 days ago

      I feel like Lemmy/Piefed made a big mistake if you compare it to the early days of Reddit. Peoplee here always try to put everything into neat little categories called communities, but most of them are dead or only have a single person posting stuff with zero comments. In the early days of Reddit there were no subreddits, you can still see how that looks on Hacker News for example. Lemmy should’ve started like that and introduce communties much later, as a consequence !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world has become the catch all community all this should’ve started with.

      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        That’s true.

        I have three pretty much dead communities I made which seemed like good ideas at the time but are just way too niche and I have way too little time to promote them. I’m subscribed to a pile of communities that are dead as well

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
      41·
      3 days ago

      I liked that community a lot, until the admin banned me for being ableist. I legitimately don’t know what I did to piss them off, other than the reason the left in the mod log (calling me an ableist shitbag).

      I feel like I’m pretty chill, and usually cautious, but I guess they didn’t see it that way.

  • ikt@aussie.zone
    5·
    3 days ago

    that’s actually a flaw not a feature, shitposting is the lowest effort posting in any community and a lot of subs on reddit ban shitposting from their subs because it drowns out all the other content and community

    that is to say the most popular comm in this place takes the least effort

    which makes lemmy less of a reddit alternative and more a 9gag alternative

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      The ultra-political still lurk around there so it works out well. One minute you’re sharing your appreciation for a picture of a tin of beans getting rode down a hill of corn or something, and before you know it you’re defending totalitarian authoritan views you didnt even know you had and getting lectured about the evils of western pigdog capitalist global expansion and why you personally need to take up arms and attack your local government office right now or youre a traitor to humanity, comrade.

      I feel its still serving its purpose.

    • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 days ago

      Honestly, 9gag alternative is kind of what I want, and what I used reddit as, too. I left 9gag ages ago, when it turned too sexist-racist-homophobic-transphobic etc., and I left reddit, for the same reason. I hope I do not have to leave here for it too, it seems to spread slowly like some sort of disease in meme communities. Shitposting is great fun, shitposting by hateful bigots, is not fun at all.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      3 days ago

      Or it’s genius because anyone who has some shit to post in a real community either decides it’s better for here, where it can be enjoyed and it doesn’t drown out the real content, or they try it there, the mod stops them, and instead of getting all butthurt about it they can bring it here where it gets seen by more people anyway and still the real community stays pure.