I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

  • gary@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy will likely have its own “the narwhal bacons at midnight” phase.

    It’ll interesting to see what it is…and then almost immediately tiresome.

    • Dustmuffins@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think that stuff like that developed when the userbase was pretty young. Don’t think something like that will happen again.

      At least I hope not…

      • Sens@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        It’s a free society here, if Lemmy really takes off its most likely going to happen and you’re free to partake in the joke or not.

        Lemmy is here to serve all, I imagine some hard boundaries around illegal content will be put in place though.

        De-federation can happen for that sort of scenario

    • solstice@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I remember cackling at the narwhal nonsense ~15 years ago. Definitely makes me feel old thinking back to those days.