this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea but the more I'm using Lemmy, the less I care about some universal community umbrella.

The word right there - community - means some specific identity and togetherness. Even if it's something generic like technology, I can imagine the people involved in those comms feel connection to it, and wish to share that connection to the users too. At least that's how I feel about starwarsmemes.

Putting everything into an anonymous basket means loss of that identity by default, unless the user actively seeks for it.

Which I think is the wrong approach. I keep saying that humans have evolved to exist in smallish groups, communities. Societies who keep existing in such way are happier than those who gave that up for industries, cities and whatnot.

And it's not like having an identity means people and communities can't cooperate, Fediverse clearly shows how we can.

It only requires a little effort from the people to familiarize themselves with some specifics instead of just blindly consuming the newsfeed.

A tiny bit of effort.

If we can't give or expect even that, then what is the point of all of this?