Cmon guys, this is c/memes and not c/politics yet you make it look like we’re in a fucking civil war lol
This site is in the process of fighting its own culture war. You have the hardcore communists, anarchists and tankies who were here the longest, and the meme page is on one of their original domains (the ml in lemmy.ml is supposed to stand for marxist-leninist ). And then you have the twitter and reddit refugees who in general lean more center left, liberal, or libertarian. ml was the domain that was advertise the most to people on reddit, and world was where people were directed to once ml’s sign ups were limited.
memes@lemmy.ml is kinda going throught the gaybar effect with the influx of redditors. Like sometimes when a gaybar gets popular, it attracts non-queer customers, who tell their friends, who invite their friends, to the point the original queer customer base gets crowded out. I imagine that’s what the marxist-leninist community base is feeling now that a lot of former redditors call their instance home, and their meme page is the defacto meme community of lemmy.
As long as the mods here allow it, and as long as people keep upvoting, this problem isn’t going away, no matter how many complaint memes get posted. The best solution I can think of is boost other meme pages on different instances, maybe with mod teams that are more willing to keep the page apolitical (which is hard to do in general cause everyone’s definition of political is different.) kbin has a fairly large meme community that could use some more love, same with memes@sopuli.xyz. Hell, considering most users are from world or shitjustworks, I’m surprise I don’t see their local meme pages get more use.
Some claim .ml stands for marxist-leninist, some claim Dessa didn’t choose it for that purpose. Personally idk but I’m mentally preparing for another round of this debate :')
Considering what is known about lemmy, its creators, and the original instances, it seems to hold up. But regardless of the true meaning of ml, the political leanings of lemmy.ml were very far left before the reddit migration, and I feel that’s the reason why you see such an aggressive presence of communist memes on ml’s meme page.
My first account on Lemmy got banned for suggesting that ml was for marxist-leninist even though it clearly is.
Like why do you think Lemmygrad, the explicitly tankie instance, chose the same domain? Coincidence?
I’m kind of shocked that ml is marxist-leninist. I thought it was Malaysia or something
The domain is, but the reason they chose the domain is because it shares the initials of marxist-leninist.
Oh, makes sense. Are all two letters TLDs countries (I kinda always assumed they were)?
I totally agree and I find it weird that some people (very loudly) don’t. You can make a community for it, but right now this one is the largest general community for people who just want to laugh and politics sometimes can make me cry.
Yes, I wouldn’t care if it was occasionally (1/20 or 1/30), but it’s more like 1/3 and always the same sub narratives and the same people joining in with their pre-written comments they already used in 5 memes or so. And I don’t want to tackle someone specifically as I have seen various examples on all political sides.
And it’s not that I’m apolitical. I just don’t think I need to convince anyone that my personal beliefs are the only correct ones out there. Our fundamental views and beliefs are being shaped by our environment and our personal experiences alongside many other factors. You may have certainly had other experiences in life than me and that’s perfectly fine.
Sometimes when seeing a political comment I’m thinking about only replying “Cool 👍” regardless of whether I agree or not… Better than writing half an essay wasting another hour of valuable life time for literally nothing.
It’s especially awesome how Americans won’t shut the fuck up about their godawful politics. I so sick of hearing about trump.
I love this take. I feel very similarly and understand that everyone has their own reasons for their political beliefs. But at the end of the day, politics are usually just depressing and I just wana laugh at some funny, non-policical memes.
If you don’t want to see politics just elect me and I promise I will handle everything for your sweet little head. Just keep playing with your toys now, no I earned all this money.
But but… you have to kill your landlord and your employer. Please. image of pig pooping on its balls
I think the best politicised meme is this one
