this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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We had a very efficient and funny campaign to inform the general public that screenshots are not memes. However, people keep posting screenshots in this community. I propose that we establish a rule banning screenshots. Maybe there is a dedicated community or screenshots enthusiasts could create one. Of course if this proposal is widely opposed, I will withdraw it and go hide in a cave, never to be heard again. Also, cartoons are not memes either but this is a battle for another day.

Edit: added brackets to the title for clarity

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No need to hide in a cave, bro, but screenshots-of-screenshots, at least as far as I've seen lately, are already a part of "the culture." There's no winning this war; you can only hope to survive it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I beg to disagree. Lemmy is new, doesn't have to cave to "the culture" that is now prevalent on reddit. Memes are created by users. They are OC. Screenshots are reposts by design. I was hoping Lemmy would be a better place than what reddit had become

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can hope. But in the end it’s the people who post that will decide. I think we should continue to allow the people and culture of the sub to define itself, instead of making mandates

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we do that, the culture will be defined by people who don't care about the culture.

A proper discussion followed by polls to establish rules would greatly increase the content quality now that lemmy is moving towards mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are users not the ones who care about the culture?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On Reddit, wasn't that kind of thing mostly just relegated to other subs? Similarly to other whatever-th degree meta jokes. Could be a thing here too.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I just downvote any uncropped screenshot and ignore the content at this point. Have people really gotten too stupid to crop?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are in the social media age... yes, people really gotten too stupid for those kinds of things. Same with taking photos of screens instead of making a screenshot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can at least understand taking photos of the screen because console manufacturers go out of their way to make it difficult to take a screenshot and get it on your phone.

But cropping literally takes 10 seconds. Or 5 minutes if you're doing it for the first time and don't have an app that can crop.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You dont need an app. Both Apple's iPhones and Samsung's Galaxy Phones have built in photo editor. Not sure about other brands.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are stock apps, but they are usually incredibly bloated. Samsungs' wants you to log in to use it and last time I checked, it literally put ads in between your images.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Um, no I don't have any ads. Typically you get ads if you have a low end device or if it's from a carrier, the carrier will put bloat. But I got my Galaxy S23 unlocked from BestBuy and I don't have any ads or carrier stuff, and the Samsung bloat isn't even that bad, most of them can be uninstalled. The photo editor is literally within the gallery app, you just tap the little pen icon that shows up when you tap on an image. I don't know why you have ads or require a Samsung account, neither apply to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was an unlocked samsung phone as well, an S9 to be specific. All the bloat on there is from samsung themselves and it frequently sent samsung ads as notifications (which couldn't be disabled) and had a constant notification telling the user to sign into their samsung account (which couldn't be dismissed or disabled).

The gallery app had ads between the images, that's what I meant.

If that isn't bad bloat, I don't know what is.

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

Um... I think you might have malware on your phone. I've literally never seen an actual ad inside a default gallery app in any smartphone I ever had, including budget phones. I did a search on Galaxy S9 and anything about ads but all I could find is people finding out their phone is infected from malware after being advised to scan their phone by commenters. Can you post an image of the ad?

Also you might wanna run a malware scan. Malwarebytes is said to be reputable.

Edit: Do you used pirated apps? No judgement, just curious. Pirated apps are one of the common ways to get infected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The phone showed ad notifications right out of the box and got software updates without issues, so definitely no malware.

Not sure when the gallery thing started but it was definitely the samsung app (which is a system app so you can't do anything to it without root).

The phone is gone now because it got slower over time until it became unusable. Androbench showed that the eMMC was perfectly fine, so that was due to updates.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would I know how to crop if I'm not a farmer?

/s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If you share a cropped meme, are you a sharecropper?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd say lazy more than stupid

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

I do not think people became stupid, but it so easy to post stuff that even the technologically iliterate can now post. Also many people underestimate the amount of people acessing media on their phone. Maybe i am too old to know all options, but i feel like a phone is not the right tool to produce any quality content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Definitely takes time and effort

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's kinda hard on mobile

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info and the proposal. I see communities get organized and talk to each other. I gives hope for a better fediverse

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This sub needs more mods, I don't want to make this decision by myself. At the moment it seems like not everyone agrees with you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't really care either way about the outcome, but thank you for your honesty and transparency here. I think it's important that the community chooses their rule changes instead of a few mods. Maybe we could have a vote?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Coming out of the cave to point the numbers under the post. Seems that a clear majority has emerged from a honest discussion.

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

You mean a vote on who will be a new mod?

Interestingly enough this sublemmy never has any reports etc, y'all really are behaving very well.

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

I meant vote on the rule change.

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

Aaaaah, I see!

The screenshots have stopped anyways, so it's no longer relevant. You agree?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It looks like we've moved on to old memes instead!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love the energy that the meme subs on lemmy have developed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, @[email protected] suggested I added brackets to the title. Are there guidelines about title edition?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No guidelines, just do it :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does one make more moderators?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I and the lemmy.ml server admins can appoint them. And @[email protected], the other mod can also of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes Understandable I agree, that's why I opened the conversation

[–] chiwiu 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take the chance now to stablish rules for screenshots AND not allowing comics at the same time (I understand that it's what you meant by "cartoons", right?)

There is a community already for the latter here: [email protected] and if people like screenshots so much they can already create their own, as you said (def wont be joining that one myself 😅)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It seems that we need more mods in this commu

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