this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

But your first post was 11 days ago

[–] brimnac 24 points 1 year ago

General Kenobi.

[–] Thteven 17 points 1 year ago

You are a bold one.

[–] nefariusmarius 11 points 1 year ago

General Kenobi

[–] BuckRowdy 8 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of when the internet was new.

[–] p5f20w18k 7 points 1 year ago

Ben? Ben Kenobi! Boy, am I glad to see you!

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

So you broke it!

Hi.

[–] Pixlbabble 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Hello from kbin!

[–] Buffalox -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could we stop having animations all over the place without having allowed them.

[–] WhoRoger 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a huge fan either, but can't really see a good reason to ban them. I'd also rather not see more simple "Hello there" posts, but don't wanna deal with a mutiny on my hands if I start deleting Kenobi.

That said, if it gets out of hand, we'll probably do something about it.

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

Sorry, didn’t mean to start anything serious.

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Buffalox 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the autoplay that's annoying, if they only played when selected, it would be perfectly fine.

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

Maybe pitch it to the Lemmy devs or to the app of your choice.

[–] Buffalox 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure I would, except they are currently overburdened from what I understand.

So currently we must rely on self discipline, or simply block users who make posts that have thumbnails with animated gifs.

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

Animated avatar/thumbnal - instablock for sure.

I do expect some apps to have this functionality tho. Especially those that are ports of Reddit apps and thus farther along in development.

[–] Buffalox 1 points 1 year ago

My app is Firefox.

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

Are GIFs not allowed on certain communities? Do certain communities alter the thread when federating?

[–] Chickenstalker 2 points 1 year ago

Pray they do not alter it further

[–] Buffalox 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes they are allowed, but they shouldn't be IMO. But I figure I'll just block users who make posts with animated thumbnails, until we can disable it.

[–] robotdna 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Buffalox 1 points 1 year ago

Animated Gif, they are not bad by themselves, but they are noisy if they play automatically on your front page, if they waited until you expanded them, it would be perfectly fine.

But the autoplay is distracting and annoying.

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

Why don’t you want gifs?