I’ve noticed that there isn’t a single Lemmy community, Mbin magazine etc. for Fediverse memes.

Is that because 99.9% of the Threadiverse came directly from Reddit, almost all Lemmy communities and *bin magazines are outposts of subreddits, and Reddit doesn’t meme the Fediverse because hardly anyone on Reddit knows the Fediverse in the first place?

Is it, in addition, because especially Lemmy is too detached from the rest of the Fediverse to know what’s memeable and to really understand memes about the Fediverse outside Lemmy?

Or is it simply because Fediverse memes go into other, more general communites/magazines where they simply drown in the flood of other threads?

I mean, I barely see any memes about the Fediverse anywhere on Mastodon. That may be either because your typical Mastodonian is not cut from meme-maker wood, or your typical Mastodonian doesn’t know enough about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, or next to nobody hashtags their meme posts. so they’re impossible to find.

And so I thought that this is more common in the Threadiverse, seeing as how meme-happy Reddit is.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    I feel like at least half of Lemmy is memes, and a good portion of those are about lemmy and the fediverse.

    you’re right, they aren’t hashtagged.

    I guess if you want to centralize them or hashtag fediverse memes specifically, you might want to start a community.

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      No time to run and moderate it. I’m not primarily a Lemmy user, I’m mostly on Hubzilla and (streams). It can happen that I’m absent from Lemmy for weeks.

  • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    to be fair there isn’t that much about the fedi in general that you can meme about. the closes you can get are in jokes but:

    a) lemmy doesnt have them because this place is uncreative and only serves as a dumping ground from memes from other places when they aren’t bickering about politics
    b) in jokes of different parts of fedi do not translate well just because they share a protocol, given the extremely little overlap on people here
    c) they’re not really “fediverse memes” just because they happened in the fediverse, are they

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      Oh you could absolutely meme about the protocol itself and the way it is implemented. lots of potential there.

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        most people on lemmy do not understand the tradeoffs both activitypub and it’s implementors do, as evidenced by this exact community we’re in. these memes wouldn’t gain any traction even if they were funny to their intended audience (which i have doubts on if it’s possible to do but idk i’m not creative enough)

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      Communities are called magazines in Mbin. They are called “Groups” in ActivityPub. It’s all up to the implementation to call it what it wants.