Your ideas, and some in this thread are quite neat.

One thing to bear in mind when working with systems is that you need to use the right tool for the right problem, and to use people tools for people problems and technical tools for technical problems.

This is a people problem.

One of the things that have been successful is branching communities; a good example on lemmy is linux.

There are communities specifically for linux shitposts and memes and easy communication. There are ones for news. There are ones for noobs. And there are ones for discussion of linux in general.

This way, you have easy shit that doesn't drown out the main idea, while still feeding back into and out of the main idea.

However, this can lead to mod burnout if too many people leak into the wrong area with the wrong posts.

Something that might work nicely is to allow the user to set up ratios of how often they want to see stuff from whichever theme/variation on that theme. 30% news, 20% memes, 50% general discussion.

Or they can set it to 90% memes and 10% general discussion, and see stuff that's different.

this whole thing sounds like desert camel music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR511iAedYU

Don't worry, you don't need to watch the whole thing. He repeats his point multiple times :

Basically, by catering to generic ideas instead of authentic ones, you are being robbed of cultural exposure and reinforcing biases and simple perspectives you have instead of growing.

Yeah, when someone does a stereotypical accent you associate with something, it conforms more to your ideas of how your language sounds when made by a foreigner. It doesn't make you understand what the accent actually sounds like, and WHY it sounds that way. It's nice for you, because it panders to you, instead of treating you like an adult.

Also, it's disingenuous to bring french accents into this, since the main problem is that the stereotypes being presented of ethnic minorities are often used to ridicule them, and deny them prosperity. That's the difference, the french guy is ,moving from one well of place to the next and people aren't going to deny him promotions or whatever. However, to Indian people, or children of Indians, patterns of bullying and marginalisation still exist and are exasperated by the stereotypes.

blocks some pathways to empathy.

explain how, postmate Dumbass.

@PugJesus@piefed.social would have loved that one, rest his soul.

He's still alive, just not running the show

He bites females.

Manga titles are becoming:

I'm a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt, and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt.

Edit: although that's more of an ecchi title? 🤔

Ahh yes Apu who is literally the hardest working person (besides Smithers)

It's reinforcing a stereotype. Apu was an interesting character when they expanded him, but he dealt with a lot of stereotypes and had a white guy voicing a fairly stereotypical guy.

Hank Azaria (or whoever it is voicing him) is cool with it, maybe check out his perspective

Then you have no content, no reason to use, no network effects. People get bored and leave

counterintuitively, turns out Thatcher went above and beyond to prevent war, even offering to negotiate the future status of the islands. In their dictatorial vigour the Argentines declined to talk.

It's incredible that if the dictatorship did nothing, they'd have the fucking islands by now. Same as china and Hong Kong, they didn't have to start installing puppets and be an asshole just yet, they could just have waited a bit more and the island would be 100% theirs with 0 controversy.

You'll never guess what Tom Morello studied at uni

I have to put up with Argentinians. I hate England. For this match I was supporting spain

That's the fucking part that blows my mind. They were about to get it back for fucking free. But the Military Dictatorship had to Military it up and then not only got their asses handed to them, but also gave Thatcher and Reaganomics the boost of a lifetime.

Every single time I see anything argentinian named "LAS MALVINAS ARGENTINAS XYZ" it feels so fucking pathetic. They put it on a (now worthless) 50 peso banknote.