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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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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):
!starwarstelevision@lemmy.world
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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:
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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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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.
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Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.
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Is it really that bad over there now? I haven't been since RIF died
I don't know either, I don't visit reddit after joining lemmy
oh i'm not brave enough for politics
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
I check it every so often without logging in. A lot of the old major subs went dark and both All and Popular are almost exclusively memes. The occasional News or Politics article breaks through but, and this may be because I usually didn't visit All, it's like looking at a completely different website. The comments aren't too much different but it feels like desktop users are getting the upvotes now as opposed to the shorter but still solid replies from mobile users.
The fandom subs I frequented (Star Wars, NBA, etc.) have sort of gone to shit, though it's hard to tell how much of that was always there. Actually the biggest difference may be just how unmoderated some of the big subs are, so where before duplicate posts on the same topic would be removed in Technology, now you'll see 20 articles on the same thing. I suspect Reddit admins are inflating vote counts to make engagement look the same as always when participation is actually down, but it's just a hunch. I have no proof of it.
It feels like you see the same 5 popular subreddits get pushed on you either on r/all or your homepage. And if you visit any new subreddit you get spammed with posts on your homepage “because you’ve shown interest.” It all feels really desperate
IDK, nowadays I only ever use reddit desktop on my ipad (firefox on that forces desktop site everywhere) for a few of the naughty subs, but hopefully it won’t be long before they, too find out that most lemmy instances have an 18+ category too. I wouldn’t know.