No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?
No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?
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.
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.
Why don't you start a community?
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.
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 theyOh you could absolutely meme about the protocol itself and the way it is implemented. lots of potential there.
most people on lemmy do not understand the tradeoffs both activitypub and it's implementors do, as evidenced by this exact community we're in. these memes wouldn't gain any traction even if they were funny to their intended audience (which i have doubts on if it's possible to do but idk i'm not creative enough)
There is still some material
- the latest vegan vs LW drama (as a subtopic, Rooki getting unpopular)
- the media bias fact checker backlash
- obvious trolls trying to get in while they stand out due to the low population
- Sublinks coming out soon™
- Ongoing beef with Reddit
- Regular beefs between communities (e.g. !android@lemdro.id vs !android@lemmy.world )
- Lemmy.ml admins powertripping when someone criticizes the CCP
- Piefed almost on-par with Lemmy while being developed by a single person in a year
- US people taking over entire communities because why not (!politics@lemmy.world being only US politics while the main LW admins are EU citizens)
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.
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
I would check out !microblogmemes@lemmy.world
What I meant weren't screenshots from social media that are treated like memes.
I rather meant original memes made in the Fediverse for the Fediverse, lampooning the Fediverse, parts of it or certain aspects of it. Even if they're based on existing templates, no matter how old.
Also, it'd be nice if there was a place where such memes can be posted in the first place.
Fediverse memes can be posted anywhere, including in existing memes communities. That's where all the beans and jeans memes are.
Most things on the Fediverse are limited by someone willing to put in the effort to make them happen. Create it, populate it with memes, and it will exist. People will still post to the larger communities though, bc they are more well-known.
Does Reddit have a subreddit for specifically “Reddit-memes”?
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
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.
!fedizens@lemmy.ca has them as a feature (NOT dedicated), but theres no content like that yet
Just a pity that the community is pretty much dead.
did you look at its source instance? it doesnt bring older posts to your instance
Magazine? What decade do you think we're living in my dude?
Communities are called magazines in Mbin. They are called "Groups" in ActivityPub. It's all up to the implementation to call it what it wants.