listen, just let them enjoy things. My god. Yeah it's kinda cringe facebook level memes, but it's what they like

The vibe I've gotten from lemmy.ml is they're a lot of gen-x to late boomer nerdy programmer types who just wanna have a nice polite website. I find it charming honestly. They're sweet. A little lib sometimes but no one's perfect.

I'm convinced they have a bot that scrapes Reddit for the most dire memes of like 2017

Some lemmy users are 60 years old and that's OK

The three you posted are okay memes, not rancid (and that's like A LOT sadly) , but obviously not hilarious, nor surrealist nor avantgarde. Yet they are fine.

Some people just want to see cats in costumes. Not because of anything broken inside them, but just because they interact with the internet that way. And it's okay

OP posting almost no memes

i thought the lost hiker one was funny and relatable

I feel emotionally drained from looking at those memes like lemmy is just an instance for energy vampires.

Collin Robinson ass motherfuckers

Those are normal memes. We just happen to have a culture of great posting passed down to us from weird Twitter.

I just blocked the comm basically as soon as we federated.

this is just facebook boomer meme stuff

It's a known fact that Redditors (and these Ledditor knockoffs) are criminally unfunny. There's a reason why the only parts of Reddit that are remotely funny are 95% Twitter screenshots. It's because Twitter, unlike the bottomless pit of unfunny that is Reddit, is actually funny.

they have no community and are desperately trying to fill their instance with any activity to keep the thing alive

they'll all be back on reddit by christmas

I blocked that shit near immediately.

LEARN TO POST BETTER

So I've been out of the meme game for a while now but to me it felt like there were a steady stream of meme formats that would come out and then in the past, say 3 or 4 years, the overall volume of new meme formats took a huge nosedive for some reason.

Has any other (old) person noticed this or is it just me?

I agree with the IPA one, it's annoying. I think on our community a complaint about IPA would be in the chat section or something, it's not funny enough to be a meme but it is true

These are cute, it's like a time machine to something I'd find funny 10 years ago maybe

Not everyone's sense of humor is poisoned by being terminally online.

How can you say that with a gem like this? /s

A good half of the front page are facebook tier.

they needed 500 api calls on their custom reddit app to find a meme good enough they could pretend to be funny. left to themselves, they're full Tom Myers.

First thing I did after federation was block their meme comm. It's dire.

I've been gone for awhile so I missed the whole federation thing. I thought lemmy was made by Marxists?

Edit: oh nvm I was thinking of lemmygrad.

I'm not gonna lie, noticing the disconcerting number of hugely upvoted (300-600 vote) stuff that is just painfully unfunny or unenlightening is making me roll back my participation in hexbear. It's not my place to say anyone doesn't belong here, though. But I am sad that the huge influx of new users has changed the whole feel of this community overnight.

There's a certain amount of edge that you have to have for good meme making and milquetoast people don't have it.

Idk I got a good chuckle out of the GPS one. Most of that sub is pretty bad though, can't argue with that

First one is the worst, glorifying the ancestors of an imagined past