this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024

137 points (87.0% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

26815 readers

2848 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!

Rules:

1. Be Respectful

Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...

2. No Illegal Content

Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...

3. No Spam

Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...

4. No Porn/Explicit

Content

-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...

5. No Enciting Harassment,

Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts

-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...

6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.

Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)

Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

137

average reddit user (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by DanTDM to c/lemmyshitpost

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 23 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Melvin_Ferd 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Its crazier going back to reddit and asking if each post is really just an advertising for someone's product. Its surprising how often a post is a commercial vs real content.

I saw one yesterday for a water bouncing scooter thing where a guy rides across a river and delivers a beer. Water scooter gets placed perfectly to showcase the name. Multiple comment chains of "cool this looks fun what is it how does it work" along with explanations and hype threads like its a ginsu knife at a Florida flea market.

Reddit is a commercial that we can comment on

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I saw that shit, did you see how hard that guy had to work that thing to keep it upright? Probably not the couch potato weekend toy people hope it is.

Totally an ad.

[–] steeznson 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Saw a post the other day on AskUk or somewhere similar which was the most blatant astroturfing I've seen to date. It was someone asking if people had seen the latest ad for a toilet paper brand on tv with a brief description of the ad. The ad itself sounded like it had been designed to be a bit gross to up the meme potential, didn't watch it though.

[–] Melvin_Ferd 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder where these ad people go to air their dirty laundry. Its an industry that never seems to reveal their secrets but we all know they do some crazy stuff. Hell they use to flash images of food in the movies decades ago right before intermission so movie goers would get hungry

[–] steeznson 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah the creative side of it is nuts. They seem to just throw things at the wall to see what sticks. I used to work in adtech doing web attribution so I've got some perspective on that. The upshot of it is that like 90% of a marketing budget is always wasted but no one knows which is the good 10%...

Made a comment a wee while ago with more details if you are interested - https://lemmy.world/comment/7031249

[–] LesserAbe 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't line up with my experience at all. I wonder if it might be that the subreddits a person follows make a big difference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

It definetly does. Small niche subs dont attract advertisers the way the massive subs do.

It makes sense advertisers are going to target spaces with the most people

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

obsessed with conspiracies and psyops, has a massive digital footprint from being terminally online

don't worry! lemmy has the c/privacy community as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah I was gonna say... That one checks out on lemmy as well.

[–] LesserAbe 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't ring true at all for me. I still like a lot of the people who are on Reddit and it has helpful, interesting content. Much better niche stuff than Lemmy. I just disagree with the way it's heading administratively and I think it will ultimately mean the community and content aren't valuable enough to keep visiting. It's why I'm on lemmy now, not necessarily because all the content here is better yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Definetly still alot of good content on reddit. Lemmy is very new so the niche communities arent here, and lemmy doesnt have years of post and comment history to fill things out.

I do think with time those things will happen on lemmy & that the administrative priorities of reddit will slowly make that space less useful. Right now both have their uses, but i have high hopes for the furture of decentralized social media.

[–] IsThisAnAI 12 points 7 months ago

Something something glass houses and stones and all. Self awareness goes pretty far as a skill.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Should have given the clown a red hat

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Remember what an absolute dumpster fire The Donald was? I remember one of their users got a front page post one day and said he called in sick to work to stay home and answer all the comments because he was so excited lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I get it. I skipped school once to do an online ARG for the second film in the Saw franchise.

[–] Dasnap 4 points 7 months ago

At least when I first started using the site, it was staunchly atheistic. I mean, you were subbed to r/Atheism automatically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

gay hentai

That's called yaoi if you may

[–] Meron35 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually, "gay hentai" could refer to yaoi (gay hentai for women), "bara" (gay hentai for men) or "shota" (gay hentai for those who belong in jail)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Im pretty sure shota just means "little boy" no? I don't think this has anything to do with gayness

[–] riodoro1 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nobody cares, to us it’s just gay hentai.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well people who read/watch hentai care

[–] Earthprototype 2 points 7 months ago

You can kick the rat out of Reddit, but you can never kick Reddit out of the rat.

[–] CultHero 2 points 7 months ago

I had been on reddit for well over a decade. Joined because I miss message boards that died when Facebook became a thing. I spent almost 15 years on different message boards for different interests and just wanted that feeling of community back.

And it was fine, until americans decided to go full blown nazi. Now there is nothing but americans shitting on every minority they can get away with and reddit mods do fuck all about it.

Not everyone online is american and the rest of us are fucking done with their bullshit. The internet is a global community not a recruiting platform for nazis.