Grumpus_Maximus

they were annoying. tbh Lenin just got lucky that germany collapsed a year later, otherwise it would have been waaay worse for russia.
who the fuck declares no war and no peace and starts demobilization right on the front lines. full retard

This shouldn’t have killed his brother

The so called third phase of the 100 years’ war between England and France was kicked off by the English monarch Henry V., when he decided to invade France in 1415. After the initial invasion at Hafleur and sacking of the city. While technically a victory, Henry V. had lost about a third of his men and his troops were heavily plagued by dysyntery.

Therefore he decided to march to Calais, which was held by the English at the time, to regroup and replenish. Alas, as had to be expected from people getting invaded for the x-st time by the same enemy, the French did not watch idly but instead intercepted Henry at Azincourt. While he still commanded something between 6000-9000 men, the french numbers are a bit foggy. While contemporal accounts of 150.000 are definitely false, modern historians propose a number of between 12.000-36.000 French soldiers, outnumbering the English forces on their home turf. Apart from the numbers alone, the French seemed to have a clear advantage in regard to heavy muscle: While the English army consisted mostly of archers and only 1000-1600 knights, the French forces were made up primarily of knights and other heavy infantry.

The battle was to take place on flat terrain, which usually would have put mounted knights at an advantage. In this case however, the ground had just previously been plowed and rain had transformed the battlefield into a literal mud pit, which was also confined by forests on both sides, which made flanking maneuvers impossible and was a gift to the English in this case. The mud also meant that movements on the battlefield slowed down the French advance significantly and gave the English archers lots of time to get a headstart on their personal k/d ratio. For anyone wondering how heavily armored professional fighters perform while sunken knee deep into mud look like.

In short: France lost, suffering heavy losses and losing not only around 1500 regular knights but also many high-ranking nobles, including their commander in chief. The defeat delivered such a heavy blow to the French war effort, that Henry could not only continue his campaign but France had to subsequently accept the disadventageous treaty of Troyes.

Cmon bros. It’s easy. French and their stupid cavalry. They probably got fucked because that stupid farmer dug a hole and horses got stuck under arrows. I’m not even googling shit

probably helping out austria being one, and then attacking poor ukrainian shmucks in a kponotop wagenburg is another

happy?

I don’t take this post sincerely - not after your accusatory thread in the other post.

You’re not suddenly worried about image quality. This is the same campaign to get people to post less on Lemmy, just wearing a different costume. Nitpick the resolution, question the poster, demand reductions - whatever makes sharing here feel like a fight.

There are Reddit agents on Lemmy whose whole play is keeping content out of here. Less content, fewer users, everyone crawls back to Reddit. That’s the only thing your posts actually accomplish.

Me, I want the opposite: all of Reddit’s content, and more in-house. Every meme I post here is one Reddit doesn’t get to keep. Keep attacking people for sharing and it’s pretty obvious whose side you’re on.

@CyberEgg, a few assumptions in your reply are wrong.

“One should be able to explain one’s postings” - no. I’m not a community organizer and I don’t owe anyone a response on demand. I’m a person sharing memes I find worth sharing, to the degree I have time. I have a family and a life outside here. Not answering a comment is not a failure of duty; it means I didn’t get to it. Every comment does not deserve a reply, and every meme does not deserve a lecture attached.

“It looks like the personal platform of an individual” - to you. Not to everyone. This community has ~2,800 subscribers and ~650 daily active users. People engage with the content the same way no matter who posts it. You don’t speak for the community, and the data doesn’t back “this turns everyone away.”

“What’s the context of the numbers?” - the last 100 posts here came from 15 authors on a ~2,800-subscriber community. r/HistoryMemes has millions of members and produced those 100 posts from 78 authors at ~40–50 posts/day. A community this size does not generate that volume on its own. Someone has to seed the feed, or it’s empty.

Quantify “better.” You’re framing the choice as: one active poster with a live feed, or almost no posts with a dead feed. Today this community gets ~14 posts/day; 12 come from me. Remove my posts and it gets ~2/day. A dead feed is exactly what drives the remaining people back to reddit. Unless you can show that removing my posts increases subscribers or engagement, you are asking for the measurably worse outcome.

And “if you don’t want to be on reddit, don’t be there” doesn’t land - I post here, on the fediverse. That’s the point. What I find telling is that the loudest demand is for less content on a small federated community. I’m not calling you a reddit agent. But if someone wanted to quiet the fediverse and push people back to reddit, demanding an active poster slow down is exactly how they’d do it.

When almost every post in a community is posted by the same user, that is not a good sign.

so post more. I agree with you on that lemmy needs more users. thats why im here personally - I dont want to be using reddit, but its evident that reddit users are not jumping over to lemmy - in part due to lack of content.

I reject the idea that every meme needs a personal explanation, a lesson, or a long comment thread attached to it. Memes are also casual content. People should be allowed to see something funny, vote, comment if they want, and move on.

The practical issue is activity. In the latest 24-hour window, this community had 14 posts; I supplied 12 of them. r/HistoryMemes had roughly 40 posts in the same window. Without people consistently sharing material here, this community becomes an almost-empty alternative while people stay on Reddit because that is where the feed is active.

Calling all frequent sharing “indiscriminate dumping” does not build a community. It reduces the content that gives people a reason to check in. If there is a concrete problem with a post, say what it is. If there is a proposed community-wide posting standard, state it clearly and apply it to everyone. But demanding less content, less sharing, and an explanation for every meme is not a serious growth strategy.

This reads less like a plan to improve the community and more like an attempt to make Lemmy’s feed quieter. I do not think that is a good outcome.

I think that’s a perfectly valid opinion, and you’re entitled to it.

I just have a different view. A lot of people try Lemmy, find very little content in the communities they’re interested in, and end up going back to Reddit. To me, that’s a much bigger problem than reposting content.

I’d rather see relevant content shared here - even if it originally came from Reddit - than see people leave the Fediverse altogether. As Lemmy grows, communities can produce more original content naturally. But getting to that critical mass is difficult if new users arrive and find empty feeds.

There’s also a difference between indiscriminately dumping everything and selectively sharing content that’s likely to interest the community. I don’t think those are the same thing.

what im sure you mean - thank you Grumpy, thank you so much for posting shit

updated. I hope that makes your day friend