this post was submitted on 22 Jun 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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[–] joneskind 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Numbers of posts, active servers and daily users have a mostly linear increase day to day but comments hence engagement have skyrocketed. It makes me think it's mostly not bots

[–] WhoRoger 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Exactly. I don't doubt there's tons of bots, but regular people are coming as well to the degree that this platform is really beginning to feel alive.

[–] zammy95 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I read WAY more than I comment, and comment way more than I post. I imagine there's a lot of people like me who are here, but are on the quiet side.

[–] ShakeThatYam 6 points 2 years ago

I also imagine comments increase exponentially once a critical mass of people have joined. Hard to comment without other people to talk to.

[–] STUPIDVIPGUY 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's a lot of signups for one day... bot accounts?

[–] WhoRoger 19 points 2 years ago

Lots of bots for soe but this comm alone blew up to 3x the users in 2 days, and people make lots of OCs... So not just bots

[–] Gerryflap 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah my guess as well. The Reddit blackouts have been going for quite a while, and the 3rd party apps are still going. There's no reason why we would suddenly grow 300K in a day

[–] Moohamin12 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Half and half.

Also, growth is exponential.

Its when it reaches a plateau aka once the dust settles, how much people remain engaged that matter.

[–] Moohamin12 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Half and half.

Also, growth is exponential.

Its when it reaches a plateau aka once the dust settles, how much people remain engaged that matter.

[–] lightsecond 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Half and half.

Also, growth is exponential.

It’s when it reaches a plateau aka once the dust settles, how much people remain engaged that matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Half and half.

Also, growth is exponential.

It’s when it reaches a plateau aka once the dust settles, how much people remain engaged that matter.

[–] MsPenguinette 3 points 2 years ago

I personally was able to go a week without reddit and just be a normal person. The need for a replacement grew. And lemmy has been picking up enough thy I feel like I can come here whenever I pick up my phone and have a decent chance of getting content for my dumb chronicly content addicted brain.

So yeah. Probably a bunch of other people doing the same. I finally created an account yesterday after a bunch of days lurking.

[–] kevtav 6 points 2 years ago

Attack of the bots

[–] MicroWave 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh hey, that's my post in the meme. I'm famous :)

[–] residentmarchant 3 points 2 years ago

You're famous in my book

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

Maybe even for more than 20 minutes :p

[–] MicroWave 2 points 2 years ago
[–] bathorygod 6 points 2 years ago

1 million so far...

[–] Nytelock 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Tarkcanis 4 points 2 years ago

TBF that's accounts across Lemmy, but still, the single instance Lemmy.world has been growing like crazy. It's gonna be wild watching this place grow over the next few months and years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@WhoRoger Let's not forget the fact that Lemmy and Kbin are both connected to the broader Fediverse, thanks to the AcitivityPub protocol! In other words, might be 1 mill Lemmy-accounts, but many more mill potential users that could interact with the content even without Lemmy or Kbin! 😄

[–] WhoRoger 1 points 2 years ago

True. Haven't seen a lot of people from outside Lemmy interact here, but that might be another interesting wave if something from Lemmy gets traction on Mastodon or wherever.

[–] OracleofPythia 4 points 2 years ago

The great migration is here! The future is now!

[–] moog 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seems like bots... but I hope not.

[–] joneskind 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

Number of comments have increased way more than the number of posts/users per day. So I have hope

[–] moog 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

dont do that. dont give me hope

[–] Otakeb 4 points 2 years ago

I try to comment as much as I can just to increase activity for now. Anytime I feel I can add just a little bit of insight or discussion I comment rather than not even if it's not substantial. Like this comment, for example lol