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Lemmy Shitpost

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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

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2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

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3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

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-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

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-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

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6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

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[โ€“] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 198 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I once had a potential employer tell me that they canโ€™t trust me because I have no social media presence.

[โ€“] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 196 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like you dodged a bullet

[โ€“] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, absolutely. His next question was going to be what my passwords were.

In that case, I would have stopped the interview and excused myself. Wouldnโ€™t have been the first time.

[โ€“] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have even excused myself at that point, I would have just:

And then left.

[โ€“] Deceptichum@quokk.au 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fuck, I forgot all about Maddox lol

[โ€“] mo_lave@reddthat.com 31 points 3 days ago

Thanks to that, I know an employer I can't trust.

[โ€“] halvar@lemy.lol 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

even better i dont have social media

[โ€“] a_person@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago (7 children)

What do you call lemmy/mastodon then?

[โ€“] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 150 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Asocial media.

[โ€“] SippyCup@feddit.nl 21 points 3 days ago

I'm in this comment and I don't like it

[โ€“] shiftymccool@programming.dev 45 points 3 days ago (16 children)

The best distiction i've heard is that social media follows people (twitter, youtube, mastodon, etc... whereas lemmy, reddit, etc... follow topics. They're more like news feeds with a comment section.

[โ€“] Almacca@aussie.zone 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

We used to call things like Lemmy a 'forum'.

[โ€“] 843563115848@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

We used to call things like a forum a "BBS".

[โ€“] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I came from ebaumsworld forums to Reddit, and Reddit to here, and they all scratch the same itch, which is basically me engaging in meaningless (not always) conversation with people, sometimes seriously, sometimes jokingly. All that's changed is how it looks and how people talk.

[โ€“] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

that would make sense if there wasnt a number of lemmy communities dedicated to documenting drama from other lemmy communities and users, not to mention blood feuds between different domains

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[โ€“] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ive always differentiated lemmy/reddit from social media for 2 main reasons. First because it isnt (or wasnt) full of "influencers" trying to push shit on you. Second and probably more so, becausee its anonymous. I dont know anyone one here personally and no one knows me. These platforms are more like collections of the internet with a comment section, imo. Not much different than things like The Chive or even a news site, but instead of news, its memes and sometimes news

[โ€“] toofpic@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The structured user information is what I think killed the "free" vibe of the early internet: you naturally see a lot of information even before you contact anyone. That removes some intimacy of exchanging information about who you are, in a way you want. Around 2000, I was playing pool with random people on Yahoo Games, and trying to learn English talking to them. I've met a girl of my age from Jakarta, I talked to some boomer Arizona cowboy who was relieved to know "we're not fucking commies anymore" (I`m Russian). These were interesting conversations where we discovered each other. Now I wouldn't talk to the guy like that, because "I see we probably don't have much in common, and he wrote this and that to other people"

[โ€“] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"Social media" is as much "social" as that "dating apps" are "dating"

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[โ€“] shneancy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

don't forget memes about the news

And, unfortunately more and more frequently, news about the memes.

By which I mean that politics has become a farce where memes are often taken more seriously than things like science and thoroughly researched journalism ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

They don't count it as social if it's pseudonymous.
Even thought, that's not what social means.

No more social media than 4chan

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[โ€“] MissJinx@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thats me. I have 2 "social media" accounts, Lemmy and YT (coz I need the tutorials). My yt account is an old ex-boyfriend account that I stole from him a good 10 years ago lol

[โ€“] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Heck ya, tutorials and hobby tear downs and builds. Also a good smattering of science education.

[โ€“] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I love that

[โ€“] CleoCommunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] Ydna@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Mine are up but the details apply to about 2010-2013 era activities. Definitely no longer a priority ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In case there is any confusion,

fr = For Real

[โ€“] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago

In case there is any confusion

Vrum = Vrum?

[โ€“] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago

Who up posting they shit

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