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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25133597

Come one come all to the Lemmy-verse! It's nice and cozy here, we do have some "bad parts of town" but you can do an instance block and not deal with them lol

For your memes we have [email protected] if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like [email protected] and [email protected] and for a meme science combo theres always the fantastic [email protected]

You can also drop a shit(post) off at [email protected] or hang out at [email protected] (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

There's much more around as well!

Obligatory, fuck Spez

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Welcome to lemmy newbies, here is your first official feud post.

Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I'm not gonna be equipped to make a nuanced and detailed take right now but in my experience hexbears are alright, fun to talk to, I can learn things from them, and at worst they're spicy.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days ago (12 children)

OMG. I just discovered Lemmy yesterday after being a Redditor for a decade. I deleted my Reddit account after the insane level of suppression I've endured over the past year and was all set to go cold turkey when I found out about Lemmy! Praise the sweet lil' six pound, eight ounce baby Jesus!!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

didn't realize that reddit actually did me a favour by giving me the boot. lemmy is way better

[–] [email protected] 106 points 5 days ago (10 children)

No mention of dbzer0. com anywhere in the meme or text? To any newcomers, if you wouldn't download a car then you don't need to know about that instance.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (31 children)

From what I can tell, this tankie stuff is bullshit. In the years I've been here, I've seen close to zero 'tankie' content from any of these supposedly tankie instances. There's like maybe one or two people on those instances who might fit the description if you search for them. Meanwhile, literally every day there are posts spitting on these supposed tankie instances. (And actually, it's again a very small number of people complaining - but they put their crap into cute memes to get traction).

I don't like the idea of shouting slurs at entire instances. In my view, if you hate those instances so much - just block them. Problem solved. No need to spew hate all over lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (21 children)

In the past week I caught a 7 day ban for "misinformation" (x3, then for reposting a link to the mod logs, "skirting the rules", "repeated offenses" etc.) from /c/WorldNews for accusing Democrats of being complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. An actual fact - tens of billions of dollars in arms sent to an ongoing genocide/ethnic cleansing by Biden. No problems like that on lemmy.ml. That really says it all for me. Lemmy's basically just a fediverse reddit, with the same mod structure - if mods abuse their power, and admins don't keep them in check, it's time to ditch the instance.

By the way, Lemmy itself was created by Dessalines, the admin of lemmy.ml. Who I collaborated with briefly on building some of the UI that you're using right now to read this. Very thorough guy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

I caught a 7 day ban in microblog memes for "whataboutism" after I pointed out that leftists were not responsible for the democrat's loss, their actions would have been wildly unpopular whether we told them or not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

.world needs a targeted marketing campaign, we just need to point to the very public mod log. The mods at .world do all the work for us lol.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

If I were criticizing various nations more than the U.S., I wouldn't shame people for "authoritarian bootlicking". Glass houses and all that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

And critically, not just since Trump. As soon as the ink dried on the Nazi surrender, the US and OSS/CIA armed and funded every fascist they could find since fascists are the most dedicated anti-communists.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (26 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This seems like an odd message considering that Lemmy, as software, is being praised here; and what is being criticized are instances wherein the admins enforce apologism for authoritarian regimes.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I would argue FOSS is more akin to cooperative anarchism or library economics. Murray Bookchin

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

"Tankie Triad?" Really? This is just McCarthyian LARPing, you don't have to constantly saber-rattle towards the Marxist-friendly instances.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Hopefully .world will serve as a quarantine instance for all the cringe-ass former redditors who love strawmen and reductionism and lame as fuck sayings like "tankie triad" and "narwhal bacon"

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (28 children)

Love everything about reddit but inexplicably wish to leave it?

Hate the idea of an english speaking internet that doesn't slavishly adhere to the party line of the US alphabet agencies?

Do you think the parable of the nazi bar is bunch of hokum?

Do you have shrieking anger towards people who refused to support genocide while having shrieking anger at (usually the same) people rejecting decades long debunked accusations of genocide made by the perpetrators of aforementioned genocide?

Join the lemmyverse! We have racism! We have homophobia! We have trans misogyny! We have daily 5 minutes hate!

And if anyone tells you different, have you considered they're a paid shill by the notorious gay sex haver Putler??

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Authoritarian bootlickers is ironic, while at leats the Americans are watch their country go full authoritarian fascist right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

And actively defend when their preferred side talks about having the biggest military budget and loves war as a method of spurring the economy!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Days since Ive seen posts mocking tankies: 0

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Is Lemmy.ml really that bad? I haven't spent enough time on lemmy to know yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you're pathologically afraid of actual communist theory.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There are some real weirdos here that have this as the major part of their personality.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The tankie triad

making a bunch of forums seem so dark and mysterious

have you considered that some of us are just silly goofy girls

catgirl-sorry

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (9 children)

I will never understand how you would defend an instance that is not only deep in genocide denial and praise of authoritarian regimes.

But also one whose head admin (and main Lemmy dev unfortunately) is a transphobe

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (13 children)

It's way more fun to pretend hexbear and .ml are super dark and scary than to admit what they mostly actually are: leftist memes and shit posting.

Notice Beehaw's not on the "good" list anymore? Wonder why they're not on there...

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (12 children)

I think Beehaw isn't on the good list here because the account that shared the meme is on Lemmy World which isn't federated with Beehaw.

So it's a lack of knowledge of the users that left it off not any nefarious intent.

But that's my 2 cents.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Yes, welcome redditors to .world, which is trying to model itself as reddit 2.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)

Looks at the lemmy devs on GitHub

All them use lemmy.ml

lemmy.world in shambles

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (34 children)

Lemmy.ml is the original instance and the dev instance. I joined it because there was literally no alternative at the time. It's pretty annoying being called a tankie left and right because of this

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (7 children)

everone knows you join instances based on how funny the @ is, duh

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