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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.

cyberic ,
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I would check out !microblogmemes

JupiterRowland OP ,

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.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Fediverse memes can be posted anywhere, including in existing memes communities. That’s where all the beans and jeans memes are.

OpenStars ,
@OpenStars@discuss.online avatar

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.

catloaf ,

You missed the beans thing, then.

gigachad , (edited )

Why don’t you start a community?

Varyk , (edited )

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.

originalucifer ,
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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

Blaze ,
@Blaze@feddit.org avatar

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: discuss.tchncs.de/post/1868051

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/7df97d1f-25f4-4dcc-82cb-842991e0db2e.jpeg?format=webp

ShittyKopper ,

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

Blaze ,
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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 vs !android )
  • 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 being only US politics while the main LW admins are EU citizens)
ShittyKopper ,

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

Blaze ,
@Blaze@feddit.org avatar

Let’s give it a try

https://i.imgflip.com/91wvi6.jpg

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MHLoppy ,
@MHLoppy@fedia.io avatar

What's up with the android beef? I hadn't heard about that one 😅

Microw ,

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

ShittyKopper ,

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)

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