I am a RiF defector and I have to admit that Lemmy is looking pretty promising! Screw the corporate scumbags!
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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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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Yea im kinda excited to transition back to smaller form communities. I remember back in the day when i was on bbforums with like 40 other people, and that was a lot of fun actually
Agreed! Over the years, I learned that in smaller communities, people engaged more, got to know each other, and had fun chatting on the same topic!
One of the nicer things I'm enjoying seeing after moving to Lemmy from Reddit, is seeing posts about the internet of 10, 15 and even 30 years ago and people having the same experience I had as well!
But also being reminded that the internet of today is definitely not how it used to be and finding like minded people who share the same values is something that's sparked my old interest in "being involved" in online communities again.
Gotta admit, the Fediverse is looking pretty sweet. A surprise, to be sure! But a welcome one.
Mastodon really helped get people acquainted with the Fediverse after the whole Twitter shitshow. My sincere hope is that the Fediverse continues to take off. Corporate-owned social media is failing at every turn.
I'm having more iterations and more interesting ones in Mastodon that I had in twitter during the last few years.
Mastodon reminds me of the early days of twitter, which is amazing.
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I'm here as a Sync defector and super hype that Sync for Lemmy is happening.
I was active on Reddit for well over a decade. Even helped mod a couple of small communities at various points. I also loved Apollo and was an early beta tester for that app. For me, Apollo was Reddit. It was the only Reddit client I used in recent years and I miss Apollo as much as I miss Reddit itself.
I don’t see myself going back to Reddit. Lemmy has been great and has quickly become very “Reddit-like” for me, but with the vibe of what the internet was back in the early 2000s. I am enjoying the communities that are forming on her.
I’m also very fond of the concept of the Fediverse as a whole. Corporate social media has failed again and again, so I want to move away from it as much as possible.
I have an 11 year Reddit account, and recently got banned for posting about how Nazi's shouldn't be around anymore.
Reddit has been slowly turning to shit, and Spez befriending Musk is a pretty big indicator that its going to keep going that way.
Sheesh. One thing that always bugged me about Reddit was the arbitrary power that mods had. I had a situation where I was banned from /r/glasses because I posted about Warby Parker (the mail-in glasses service) being a good option for lower-cost glasses in the U.S. Turned out the mod was the owner of an optical shop and he didn't like it when people recommended Warby Parker and other mail-order services for glasses because it was sucking away money from high-end, overpriced optical shops. So he just started banning people who mentioned any of these mail-order services.
One thing I like about Lemmy is that the modlog is public. I think that level of transparency is really important and helpful for avoiding situations like people have experienced on Reddit.
But I agree, Reddit has indeed slowly turned to shit. I love that the general concept behind it is being replicated here and that so many people are starting to recognize the importance of a company being free from a CEO.
I was a long time Redditor--a prolific lurker but infrequent poster. I never used third party apps, but Reddit's CEO behaved like such an asshat that I haven't been back since the blackout began. Dumped Facebook and Twitter for the same reason: their horrid CEOs. Found my way to Kbin and am enjoying it! Hopefully the the good content will keep on flowing.
Hell yeah! I'm having a blast too from Lemmy.
I feel a little guilty using Starlink, but it's the only half decent option out here.
Wowza where did 1.6k people suddenly came from. A million more on the way?
Good relations with the memes, we must have. If to succeed as a meme hub, we want.
Also post engagement
I keep going to Reddit out of habit but am trying to check Lemmy.world more often. Still trying to wrap my head around the whole architecture--I understand it at a functional level but still getting a hang of how it is to actually interact with various servers and communities. Anyway. I hear only a Sith deals in absolutes and /U-who-shall-not-be-Spez'd sure seems to be dealing in that way. May Reddit go the way of MySpace and the net return to a more decentralized and organic space.
We will watch your career with great interest
I moved here immediately when I heard Sync was making an app
Sync is so great. Out of all the 3rd party app creators, I'm happy that it was Sync's creator that'll take the first stab!
Still getting my bearings, but this feels closer to old (pre digg migration) reddit than current reddit does.
You might be interested in this: https://userstyles.world/style/10311/old-reddit-ish-lemmy
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I was a RiF user myself. Not interested in a reddit without it.
Yuuup. I want cards that show me the picture without clicking, I don't want anything suggested, and I want the video player to work. RiF did all that. I'm using jerboa for lemmy and it's close enough
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By the dark side reddit has been seduced.
It's going to take awhile before things go back to normal but it's nice seeing new communitys pop up
Frankly I’d be okay with plenty of reposts since I came to this sub so recently.
Infinity defector here: Post engagement noises
I feel welcomed.
Death to Reddit.
This is the way
Still trying to figure this out. Need a decent Apollo style app to fully move in. I’m so done with Reddit. I already nuked the content they let me and deleted a few accounts. Definitely phasing out.
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I'll miss Apollo more than I'll miss Reddit. God damn it.
Farewell rif! Hello Lemmy! Fuck u/Spez!
Ex-RIF user reporting in. I'm doing my part!
Oh I'm not brave enough for politics
Fuck spez
No one ever mentions the Narwhal users:(
Because they only bacon at midnight.
That's something I'd rather not bring back please
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