Sergio

I’m just here to appreciate the tribute to Goya’s “Saturn Devouring his Son.”

Yeah, the niche knowledge is what I’m talking about, I agree.

But as for the memes… you know, a couple months ago I looked at the reddit goth memes sub to try and swipe some memes for !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, and… I only found like 4-5 decent ones. And most of those were swiped from Insta or Facebook, by their own admission. If I want to find good new goth memes I gotta look at Insta or I think Tiktok. (for old ones, I’d look at Facebook, maybe imgur or pinterest.) I don’t think reddit has a lot of good original stuff any more. Maybe it’s different for different types of memes, tho.

I never felt that Reddit has a sense of community, even on mid-sized subs like r/karate or the sub for my local town. On the other hand, there are several people here on Piefed/Lemmy whose names I recognize exactly because we have smaller communities.

The main advantage Reddit had is that for any topic, you were likely to have a world expert in that topic weighing in. You might have to scroll down a ways to get past the slew of stupid one-liners and joke-of-the-weeks, but it’d be there. But I suspect that fewer of those experts are weighing in these days, now that their only purpose is to feed the AI models.

Etymology: lol, with the o replaced by an e.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lel

Lel
Used instead of lol; when you’re too dank for lol

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lel

lel Pugsley is just starting to plan mischief.

MC Hammer - Addams Groove. “Speaking and thinking about the Addams Family. They don’t hurt anyone, they just like to have fun!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuYlLZ8Qg48

EDIT: oh yeah also The Citizens of Halloween - This Is Halloween (From Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVuToMilP0A

I thought it was like a Free Anti-Slop Kitto Coupon.

They were dead to me the moment CmdrTaco sold the site roughly 15 years ago

oooh yeah, I vaguely remember the whole site taking on a significant tone-shift at some point. I think it was just before Columbine, bc when that happened I remember some new non-tech-guy doing a whole series of multi-part posts on it. Eventually after that I faded away from it.

I just checked it out and yeah it’s still there, chugging along.

Are you familiar with the concept of a “fish story”, in which someone tells you of a fish that they almost caught that was SO BIG, but it got away, so they don’t have any proof?

I had a very low digit Slashdot ID, but I forgot the password and the free email provider I’d used shut down so I can’t rescue it. I guess that’s a Slashdot fish story.

Same generation as FREE SHAVOCA DOO!!!

Not that old, but I was just now looking up the Scottish Guy Gets Stuck on a Roof.

will use these in the future.

A lot of good advice here. Making Feeds on Piefed works too. Ex:

• https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
• https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent

Tildes is a pretty small community, so a lot of people are likely to be unfamiliar with it.

For example, I realize it’s a small independent platform, but I don’t know how I’d characterize the vibe, let alone what about the vibe you liked. Also, what type of content did you like there? If you’re more specific about that, maybe people can give you better advice.

https://youtu.be/RM2N1w6t1KM?t=101

I think “Scene” died like 10 years ago, so looks like they’re just uploading old videos.

I can’t tell if that’s real or not. On one hand it’s obviously a hilarious parody. On the other hand several news outlets are reporting on it.

I don’t know what reddit’s culture is like, since I left years ago.

it’s kinda funny how they’re freaking out over Lemmy and Piefed’s “incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant” UX compared to… Reddit?

If they really love the ads, bots, and default feed of Reddit then I’m happy they’re staying there. I just hope for their sake they don’t get site-banned by an overzealous AI moderator.