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.

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[–] gary@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Senseibu@feddit.uk 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Dustmuffins@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Well I'm certainly not above low effort shitposting.

[–] Goldenderp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That legal/illegal thing is going to be tricky to figure out. What's illegal exactly in a global federated social network? Whose law applies?

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The instance's hosting country's law applies to the instance and the communities it hosts.

[–] Goldenderp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Displaying illegal content from the fediverse is fine?

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Its a bit complicated. EFF has a good post from a US perspective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer . My understanding for US instances (and IANAL), is that if you have a TOS banning illegal content, register for a DMCA agent, and remove illegal content in a reasonably fast timeframe when you have knowledge of it, and ban repeat offenders, you should be okay.

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Acester47@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

do you remember when they tried to make Millhouse a meme

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I do say everything's coming up Milhouse sometimes.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't Millhouse was a meme before reddit was a thing? Pretty sure I saw Millhouse memes on 4chan back in the day.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely from the 4chan way-back.