I'm tired of seeing an equal amount of bitching about current meme trends as I see the current meme trends, personally. Especially when the complaints are coming after less than 24 hours of a trend forming.
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Shitposting was more entertaining when each post was different, not whatever circle jerk.
Don't get me wrong, I have been laughing at some of the Taylor Swift and Jeans ones - but I haven't been going directly to c/shitposting because when most every joke is the same its a lot less entertaining because you already know the punchline.
I mean the difference is getting banned in 196 for mildly deviating from their approved perspective
i disagree with therealjcdenton but you're missing the point.
they're saying that 196 "infected" the previously good other communities on Lemmy, so them blocking 196 itself doesn't do much, and they're losing out on content if they block the"infected" communities as well.
what kind of infection are we talking about? shitposts? are there a lot of shitposts outside of 196 and lemmyshitpost? i haven't noticed
This is a natural downside of the fediverse. I'm sure there are hexbear folks who just made a new account somewhere and are in all our feeds again. Nothing to do about that
Reddit and similar had the same issue but in general account hopping was less normal
I'm sure there are hexbear folks who just made a new account somewhere and are in all our feeds again
at least they now can't identify each other and troll the rest of us as easily anymore
I didn't even know 196 was a thing on Reddit but I blocked them on Lemmy because my main page was all spam from them. None of it was funny to me, or entertaining at all. It's the only community I have blocked too.
In the beginning after the blackout, 196 was one of the biggest Lemmy communities. It definitely helped driving the switch