To be fair, ‘memes’ is inherently a generic community. If you don’t like that, then you should sub to more specific comms and block ones whose scope is too generic. You can’t answer all posts to generic comms like ‘videos’ by saying “Well, there’s this more specific comm”. The threadiverse isn’t a directory structure where you should necessarily filter down to more specific subdirectories where possible.
I agree that LCD genericization is a huge problem on sites like Lemmy and Reddit. It’s seriously troubling how it eventually becomes one big mass without meticulous moderation. But the problem you’re describing is baked into the comm in this case.
I mean I think most people would agree that a meme template is necessary for something to be a meme. Microblog “memes” that are just a funny post on Twitter or Mastodon are fundamentally a different thing.
You’d be surprised at the amount of people here on Lemmy who insist that Twitter screenshots fully classify as memes and that they belong here… or maybe it was a different memes comm on another instance when I involved myself in a massive fight about it.
The problem is that there are no meme communities on Lemmy of comparable size that do not allow screenshots of witty social media posts/comments.
I wouldn’t even count these as memes, but we already had that discussion. Some people think everything is a meme and that everything can be posted here, some disagree. The problem is there’s no space for those who disagree. And I’ve even seen it that people who don’t want these screenshots go and create their own community (or rather subreddit to be specific) but when it got sizeable enough, too many people don’t care about why that sub was founded, and the sm screenshots were everywhere again.
There are however numerous large enough communities that allow or even specialize in that kind of content, so is it really asked too.much to move it to those communities?
To be fair, ‘memes’ is inherently a generic community. If you don’t like that, then you should sub to more specific comms and block ones whose scope is too generic. You can’t answer all posts to generic comms like ‘videos’ by saying “Well, there’s this more specific comm”. The threadiverse isn’t a directory structure where you should necessarily filter down to more specific subdirectories where possible.
I agree that LCD genericization is a huge problem on sites like Lemmy and Reddit. It’s seriously troubling how it eventually becomes one big mass without meticulous moderation. But the problem you’re describing is baked into the comm in this case.
I mean I think most people would agree that a meme template is necessary for something to be a meme. Microblog “memes” that are just a funny post on Twitter or Mastodon are fundamentally a different thing.
You are right. I don’t want to read X posts on my brainrot meme feed.
You’d be surprised at the amount of people here on Lemmy who insist that Twitter screenshots fully classify as memes and that they belong here… or maybe it was a different memes comm on another instance when I involved myself in a massive fight about it.
The problem is that there are no meme communities on Lemmy of comparable size that do not allow screenshots of witty social media posts/comments.
I wouldn’t even count these as memes, but we already had that discussion. Some people think everything is a meme and that everything can be posted here, some disagree. The problem is there’s no space for those who disagree. And I’ve even seen it that people who don’t want these screenshots go and create their own community (or rather subreddit to be specific) but when it got sizeable enough, too many people don’t care about why that sub was founded, and the sm screenshots were everywhere again.
There are however numerous large enough communities that allow or even specialize in that kind of content, so is it really asked too.much to move it to those communities?