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I've noticed that there isn't a single Lemmy community, Mbin magazine etc. for Fediverse memes.

Is that because 99.9% of the Threadiverse came directly from Reddit, almost all Lemmy communities and *bin magazines are outposts of subreddits, and Reddit doesn't meme the Fediverse because hardly anyone on Reddit knows the Fediverse in the first place?

Is it, in addition, because especially Lemmy is too detached from the rest of the Fediverse to know what's memeable and to really understand memes about the Fediverse outside Lemmy?

Or is it simply because Fediverse memes go into other, more general communites/magazines where they simply drown in the flood of other threads?

I mean, I barely see any memes about the Fediverse anywhere on Mastodon. That may be either because your typical Mastodonian is not cut from meme-maker wood, or your typical Mastodonian doesn't know enough about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, or next to nobody hashtags their meme posts. so they're impossible to find.

And so I thought that this is more common in the Threadiverse, seeing as how meme-happy Reddit is.

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[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What I meant weren't screenshots from social media that are treated like memes.

I rather meant original memes made in the Fediverse for the Fediverse, lampooning the Fediverse, parts of it or certain aspects of it. Even if they're based on existing templates, no matter how old.

Also, it'd be nice if there was a place where such memes can be posted in the first place.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

Fediverse memes can be posted anywhere, including in existing memes communities. That's where all the beans and jeans memes are.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You missed the beans thing, then.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Emperor 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There were beans, lots of beans.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just... lots of beans? Don't get me wrong, I love beans, but they don't seem particularly meme-worthy. Any good examples I should look for?

[–] Emperor 3 points 2 months ago

Here and here. And that broken context link.

It's basically beans all the way down.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 6 points 2 months ago

Most things on the Fediverse are limited by someone willing to put in the effort to make them happen. Create it, populate it with memes, and it will exist. People will still post to the larger communities though, bc they are more well-known.