Man, [email protected] makes me so angry about this. I try to have this account be my funny account and my other lemmy account be the more serious, news-orientated/political account, but microblogmemes allows so much of this “screenshot of a literal fact” posts that it pollutes both accounts’ feeds.
i hate that microblogmemes allows people to just post anything from any microblog platform. they always justify it with “well a meme is actually just a self-replicating idea” which is technically true, but it ignores the meaning the term ‘meme’ has on the internet, which is basically just an image based joke that plays off of internet culture in general, typically including previous memes. in the context of a scientific field like linguistics or phycology, the first definition makes more sense. in the context of an internet group with no scientific interest, the second is obviously correct. also they always use that excuse when they are posting US politics instead of memes, which is bullshit because there are communities for politics and political memes. dont make off-topic posts, go post it in a community where it is relevant.
ImMa steal this fam.
I mean I agree. But I also appreciate people finding the quality comedy on those places for me and sharing it here.
Maybe just start a “SocialMediaGems” sub or something.
there are a couple microblogmemes communities and whitepeopletwitter (and similar) communities, but the ones on .world have terrible moderation.
Anything humans spread around and share other than our DNA is a meme. The definition of a meme is “non-genetic information shared by any means.”
the word meme gained a second definition on the internet, which is similar to the first but focused on specifically things intended to be funny. because context is a part of language whether you like it or not, that meaning is the one that is being used any time you see the word on the internet unless otherwise specified or unless the context in which you’re seeing it is one where the other is more appropriate (like a discussion about linguistics or the spread of ideas).
People holding onto the idea that memes should be defined by their original context are using the same rhetoric as those who insist it’s okay to call cigarettes “fags”
And a tomato is a fruit. It would be stupid to pretend it should be utilised by its definition.
A tomato is a fruit. And all fruit are vegetables, but not all vegetables are fruit.
Sounds like you should crack open a dictionary.
a tomato is a fruit
Yeah, I know. I said that.
a tomato is a vegetable
Never said it wasn’t.
So you weren’t being sarcastic?
No? Have you never heard the analogy: “intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad” ?
Ahahaha.
I was just about to comment this lmaoo
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I mean, it is though. A meme is an idea that has been spread, and even if that wasn’t the literal definition of it, people have modified the idea of what a meme was into what it is now. You are simply outnumbered and clinging to an outdated definition.
I think it’s fair to be frustrated when language is forcibly changed by lazy misuse. We are losing words due to declining literacy and trying to push back on that shouldn’t be seen as a worthless effort.
Obviously at some point numbers win over and then we have folks like you who have gotten comfortable using terms incorrectly and arguing that the definition has changed. And it has. But that doesn’t make it a good thing.
A meme is a meme, regardless if it has been screenshot. it is the content not the vessel
but not if it’s a text-only screenshot, like a twitter/tumblr post. the point of the modern “meme” is to be variations on a visual-based theme.
otherwise, it’s just a joke or a comment
I am going by the original definition of meme, in which jokes and comments (if shared) are a meme, language is a meme too. otherwise you are just talking about captioning images, which are a type of meme, but saying only those are memes is jut dumb.
a tomato is a fruit, but does it belong in a fruit salad?
the real question is what goes on a salad, I there is no rule that no fruiting bodies are allowed in a salad. yet we also add cheese bacon, chicken and mushrooms to salads. what is your point?
Me: (come here to laugh.)
OP: (taking it real personal and arguing with everyone in the comments)
I see a bit of both sides being argued in the comments here. We don’t have a clear rule about this atm, so removals have been inconsistent and case-by-case, often based on reports.
Maybe I’ll start and pin a discussion thread about this during the week (when we’ll get the most eyes on it) and see what the wider community wants, and if desired, maybe we can come up with a rule wording that isn’t too restrictive, but removes stuff that genuinely feels “off topic” for a memes page.
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
-Wikipedia
You can argue that many of the text posts do not meet the criteria, but just as many of the shitty image macros posted don’t either.
a meme was originally used to describe repeated patterns in genetics, and is fundamentally another way to say “mimic,” so we could build an argument for a totally different way to moderate content here.
but the spirit of the community is to showcase the modern internet meme, so I think taking the narrow definition of “new jokes over repeated images” is more appropriate than a literal definition of the word itself.
You stopped reading too early.
I was the whole thing. That extra context still doesn’t require image macros or exclude purely textual memes. Also good job continuing to break accessibility with laziness.
with laziness
Nah, on the GP’s case, breaking accessibility requires a lot more effort than preserving it.
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Good catch
I like to throw this one around on occasion.
Edit: I’m looking through the community now in the past few hours…
Most of the “real” memes that get posted are terrible, so I can’t say I mind too much.
Feel free to make your own quality memes.
I came here to say this to you. Be the change! Flood the zone with what you want to see. We’d all appreciate it.
That’s literally what they did…
Why fo you feel the need to tell me what I am already doing though?
