Memes

Oh, that reminds me something I wrote in Mastodon, about how some Romans would handle the internet, specially the fediverse. I'll translate and expand it here.

Cicero wouldn't ever use Mastodon, he'd say that it's "too limiting". Instead he'd be here in Lemmy and write huge walls of text. Nobody would read them right off the bat, but years later people would look and say "this guy was spot on".

Marcus Antonius would reply Cicero with NN = nimis, neglego (too long, didn't read) from his Kbin account. Cleopatra would send him some sex NDi = nuntii directi (DMs), but Marcus Antonius would reply to her in the open. "It's fine, nobody here gets the context, plus we're talking in Greek!". Everyone would see the interaction, roll their eyes, know exactly what's about, and move on.

Catullus would spend 90% of his time in saving and reposting Clodia pics. 10% mocking Caesar. I bet that his poems would be highly upvoted though, they're fun and nice. He'd do it from Kbin.

Caesar would be astroturfing the shit out of some Mastodon server.

Martialis would be self-hosting his Lemmy, with exactly one user. Eventually some big Lemmy server would get enough of his merdifari (shitpost) and the admins would decide to defederate him, but that would cause some drama because his merdifari was actually fun.