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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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Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta
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Special days!
Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.
Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.
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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):
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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:
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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.
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We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.
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I think that outcome has strong up- and down-sides.
In one sense, it allows someone to consume a collection of different-focused communities grouped around a topic, and allows each community to specialize better within it's "own" scope.
The flip side of that though is if that is excessive frontloaded as a default experience, or a recommended one, you wind up in a situation where none of those sub-communities matter as something unique to themselves. They're all just relatively interchangeable sources of content for the multi-magazine clustered around a topic.
When multireddits first launched and there was big enthusiasm for them on Reddit, there was a specific user who was forever trying to put together collections of spinoff "high quality" subs and package them as this sort of "true old-school reddit experience" - but what that resulted in was huge numbers of discussion subs becoming generically similar, because that one user was pushing the entire collective as this big homogenous "better reddit" experience and users entering the space via the multireddit engaged with the listing in that exact fashion. Then when those subs' own communities got fed up with the newcomers and went and created their own space, Our Helpful Friend would add the new community to their list.
Moderating in that space was incredibly frustrating, because both newcomers and the user spearheading this were diametrically opposed to the need for moderation - despite wanting an experience IMO is only available in highly moderated spaces, they all firmly believed that the community style they wanted was possible without moderation, if everyone just worked together and played nice. So you tell someone that their post doesn't meet standards, and they get upset that standards apply to them, cite the rules in some other community, or from Our Helpful Friend's values statement, or whatever they were using - not understanding that we had not signed on to their project and unwilling to respect that we have our own rules and would not be changing them.
So yeah. Both great feature and annoying feature, and I do vaguely worry that the prevalence of parallel and overlap communities across the Fediverse does risk that multi-mag function doing a little community erasure if it's not implemented carefully and gracefully.