I have really fond memories of those old rage comics, they’re part of what got me to make an account in the first place. I know they’ve grown corny as they’ve aged, but gee so have I. I think most places online can’t really replicate the kind of communal rush to engage in the community, I think we’ve all grown a mite cynical.
I think you’re both spot on. What I hope is that by voicing this people can “get with the program” and not reward that kind of content. After all, we can still see downvotes on here ;).
You make me optimistic for the future of the fediverse! I’m also struck by how much discussion there is of instances, and how there’s still a vibrant marketplace of ideas. It’s pretty wild how much google has calcified the rest of the internet, and search has solidified the power of a few companies.
Yeah that’s a fair point. For me it was the constant twitter screenshots/ tiktok reposts and repeated and shallow discussion of whatever bullshit fill in the blank political figure/ tech billionaire was doing that was killing the fun for me. I really think memes were more fun back in 2012-~2018 or so, mostly because there seemed to be more emphasis on novelty, but the endless soyjack reposts or dead tv show memes (cough the office) were definitely getting stale. I think it works better when memes are on hobby/niche subreddits because I think they invited discussion in the comments, but man are they useless on anything related to current events. Some subreddits did it really well though, places like noncredibledefense (that’s the only one I can think of rn) really had a unique voice and were making new formats.
Yeah I think this is a good point. I’m still getting used to the interface, I wish there was a bit more salient of a way of discerning what is a kbin post on the all feed? I know I can look underneath the title of the post, but maybe having an icon (like whatever the logo ends up being) on the right side of the title might be a good idea to privilege kbin’s posts for kbin users over lemmy’s without exempting those posts from the feed?
I sure hope so. I’m just worried that we won’t have a mature enough community to strike while the iron is hot. I really want an alternative to succeed, and have for some time. I just fear that if the economy somehow turns around and tech companies start getting their VC money again, all the big companies will just keep on trucking and we’ll all learn entirely the wrong lesson from these experiences. It’ll feel like corporate consolidation of online spaces is an inevitability, and people will just increasingly capitulate. Meanwhile there’ll be an obscure userbase of antiquated posters on this website just quietly plodding along without making any headway, and nobody will come to join us because none of dynamism of a vibrant community exists here.