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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

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IMPORTANT

Please do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

  1. This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.

  2. We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.

  3. As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!

  4. Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.

  5. Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).

  6. Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.

  7. Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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

lemmy.world clobbered the gif in the main upload btw. Brought it in and turned it into a mp4, which the default web view doesn't know what to do with when the thumbnail is expanded. (apps and frontends like photon have been able to process it though.)

[–] ummthatguy 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm on Connect and had no problems. It's a bit fucky with other stuff sometimes. Thanks for the heads up. If you know, what's a fix for getting gifs to display correctly? This was from Tenor.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's just the default web view that struggles.

I don't think there's much of a fix, because it depends on the arbitrary decision that lemmy makes as to whether to just link to the file on an external site, or to try to download it and cache it. If it chooses the second option, then you're fucked.

The possible solutions all suck for one reason or another: make a text post and use an inline link in the body; use a big file and/or a low-bandwidth site so lemmy gives up trying to bring it in; or link to non-embedded version (e.g. https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/walter-didnt-know-did-not-know-that-idk-gif-17888366).

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

Bit of a gamble or a full site link, got it. Well, thanks again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's good ol' Lemmy-UI being dumb with gifs again (it does the same with webps too), I've fought it for hours trying to post gifs to no avail

There is a fix that should work (I think) but it's in the next release, whenever that's coming out