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Not really. I find that most "pop culture" still gets talked about, it just doesn't get pushed into everyone's face by an algorithm.

If I drift away from my subscribed feed and look at the all feed, it doesn't take long for something or another about pop culture to pop up. And then if I'm interested, I go to the particular community that's talking about it and subscribe. The more I do that, the more interests start to show up in my subscribed feed.

For the most part, these communities all exist, there's just no algorithm saying "hey...you'll probably like this". And so you have to find them yourself.

Ooooh, we do need a Eurovision community if we don't have one already.

Edit: there's one at [email protected]. I'll see you there!

Anything black/“urban” generally gets heavily downvoted on Lemmy. Haven’t figured out why. With all the other heavy virtue signaling you’d think it would also be pushed.

It’s one of the many things that aggravates me about my experience here. I went back to Reddit after over a year of only spending it here.

It has gotten better though.

Yes and I love it

I feel it, but to me it's kind of positive.

Like, I can belong to a social group without being bombarded with nonsense that is just noise meant to distract.

It's the same kind of liberation and control I felt when switching to Linux (since you mentioned it) - one decision, and the entirety of Windows drama is no longer relevant to me. I'm part of a much smaller, much more concentrated group of real people, in a sort of blissful silence to which I only admit the information and people I find worth my attention.

That's why I'm here. This week, I learned who Kendrick Lamar and Drake are, and I feel stupider for it.

I specifically came here because I was uninterested in the pop culture chat that I was seeing in my socials. I want to talk to more people in less mainstream nerd culture

Hmm.. maybe? But I'm ok with it. All those things in your second paragraph are things I'd never care about anyways.

I made a community for survival horror games because I like them and like talking about it. Build it and they will come. Make a community to talk about things you like and those with similar interests will join.

We did have a Luka to the Lakers over on [email protected]

Just saying.

I’m exclusively on the fediverse, I don’t feel disconnected from pop culture at all. There is a lot of politics and meta discussion, I’ll give you that

I mean, post the content and people will come? I think a lot of people would have commented on these things if they saw the thread

DAE is what? I know, but i need reminding.