Comment on No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?

• JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s some stuff that I’d meme about:

  • Mastodon users thinking the Fediverse is only Mastodon
  • Lemmy users thinking the Threadiverse is only Lemmy
  • Mastodon users thinking the Fediverse started with Mastodon
  • Mastodon being ridiculously underpowered in comparison to just about everything else, particularly Hubzilla and (streams)
  • Mastodon users wishing Mastodon (or, better yet, “the Fediverse”) had certain features which are readily available just about everywhere outside of Mastodon
  • Mobile apps built against only Mastodon
  • Fediverse tools built against only Mastodon
  • Pleroma being lightweight
  • Mastodon’s culture which Mastodon users are trying to force upon the rest of the Fediverse
  • Forkey antics such as "Speak as cat"
  • Forkeys in general
  • Forkeys inspired by Blåhaj vs Mastodon’s mastodon plushie
  • Mastodon users still uploading videos to YouTube and not to PeerTube
  • Hubzilla’s UI
  • Sharkey’s infamously bad Mastodon API implementation
  • Friendica federating with everything, especially juxtaposed with some Mastodon users not wanting to federate with anything that isn’t vanilla Mastodon
  • Hubzilla’s ability to host Web pages
  • Nomadic identity
  • Bluesky’s AT protocol seeming like a cheap knock-off of the Zot and Nomad protocols in parts
  • Self-proclaimed Fediverse experts who actually barely know anything about Mastodon and don’t know anything about the rest of the Fediverse
  • Character limits
  • Threads perhaps wanting to EEE the Fediverse vs Mastodon actively trying to EEE the Fediverse right now
  • Mastodon’s poster-side content warnings set in stone in what they want to be the Fediverse culture vs Friendica’s, Hubzilla’s, (streams)’ and Forte’s automated, reader-side content warnings which have been around for longer
  • Generally, the Fediverse being older than Mastodon
  • Lemmy only barely federating with everything else
  • /kbin essentially being dead
  • Permissions on Hubzilla and (streams)
  • “Conversations” on Mastodon vs conversations on Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams)
  • Certain points in the Fediverse history

  Granted, I guess almost all of this will fly even over most c/Fediverse users’ heads due to how detached Lemmy is from the rest of the Fediverse. But I don’t really expect that many more Mastodon users to understand it, and those who do may be offended. Oh well.

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• ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  id argue none of those are fun topics you can joke about but “memes as a form of outrage” (aside from, like, two) which is already a problem (see all the political memes on any of the meme communities for countless examples) we do not need to encourage imo

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s give it a try

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Found on !memes@lemmy.ml

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well that is just like… your opinion man. Also i think that utopia looks kinda shit like dubai but with flying taxis.

      World made it easy for tons of people to onboard onto lemmy. If there were no instances that made it easy for all the reddit refugees to find a home, it would be a lot emptier here imo. And of course people create communities on their instance.

      I think it is a good thing that lemmy.world is huge, in my non programmer mind, it will prepare lemmy better for the next wave of new users, maybe that will be the time to onboard them onto different instances.

      Thanks for all the memes though!

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      • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also i think that utopia looks kinda shit like dubai but with flying taxis.

        Agreed

        Well that is just like… your opinion man

        There are two main issues with centralization on LW:

        • centralized decisions impacting most of the Lemmy users made by a small group of people (I posted a list of them here, even Rooki a LW admin agreed with me that them being “Reddit 2.0” puts them under a lot of pressure: lemmy.world/comment/12070983 )
        • federation issues with smaller instances, as LW is so big it cannot keep up with instances which are further away ( lemmy.world/post/15634599 , another detailed explanation is available here, where it impacted instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone, lemdro.id, lemmy.nz, reddthat.com and aussie.zone : lemmy.world/post/13967373 )

        A detailed thread on !fedigrow@lemm.ee that discusses the issue: lemmy.world/post/14728407

        World made it easy for tons of people to onboard onto lemmy.

        Agreed, and as I always say, I think they do a quite good job overall. At the same time, it would be better if communities could move away from LW as well, for reasons stated above

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let’s try this here before it gets its own post somewhere.

    That is, I have a growing suspicion that even here in a community that specialises in the Fediverse, hardly anyone can relate to it, and out in the meme communities, nobody will even understand it.

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    • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, that’s Mastodon’s main dev, right?

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      • JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yup.

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• stock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes I think memes can only arise when your community has enough lore and stories that people love to tell again and again. Eventually this will be the case here too !

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  • Blaze@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just posted one on !fediverselore@lemmy.ca , reception was mixed ha ha

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