I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

  • @garyEnglish
    83•2 years ago

    Lemmy will likely have its own “the narwhal bacons at midnight” phase.

    It’ll interesting to see what it is…and then almost immediately tiresome.

    • DustmuffinsEnglish
      14•2 years ago

      I think that stuff like that developed when the userbase was pretty young. Don’t think something like that will happen again.

      At least I hope not…

      • SensEnglish
        26•2 years ago

        It’s a free society here, if Lemmy really takes off its most likely going to happen and you’re free to partake in the joke or not.

        Lemmy is here to serve all, I imagine some hard boundaries around illegal content will be put in place though.

        De-federation can happen for that sort of scenario

        • DustmuffinsEnglish
          13•2 years ago

          Well I’m certainly not above low effort shitposting.

        • @GoldenderpEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          That legal/illegal thing is going to be tricky to figure out. What’s illegal exactly in a global federated social network? Whose law applies?

          • NebLemEnglish
            5•2 years ago

            The instance’s hosting country’s law applies to the instance and the communities it hosts.

            • @GoldenderpEnglish
              3•2 years ago

              Displaying illegal content from the fediverse is fine?

    • @solsticeEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      I remember cackling at the narwhal nonsense ~15 years ago. Definitely makes me feel old thinking back to those days.