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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] dingus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and you have the risk of a other vlemmy debacle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happened to vlemmy? I've noticed it's been down for a while but I haven't managed to find out why...

[–] dingus 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been curious about it as well. No one seems to know for certain and we may never know.

Some people seem to hypothesize that the owner got in trouble because they had federated with burggit.moe in the past, which is an instance that hosts content that borders on child pornography from my understanding. The sudden disappearance of vlemmy.net seemed to happen just after the admin said they would have to defederate from them because of legal issues...