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DAE feel a bit out of the pop culture loop using Lemmy as their primary social media? (sopuli.xyz)

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I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there's a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I've blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.

But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy's, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country's Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?

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[-] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

I haven't been in the loop since 2016.

[-] paequ2@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile

OH SHIT! That's right! I forgot! Kendrick was doing the half time show! 😂

Thank you for posting this! I gotta watch the half time show now!

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[-] BillTongg@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I haven't followed pop culture since about 1985. I've never heard of Kendrick or Drake (apart from Sir Francis Drake and Nick Drake, and of course you can't mean either of them, given they died in 1596 and 1974 respectively).

I like it here, not least because I understand a lot more of the things people talk about than I ever did on Reddit. Perhaps the users here tend to be older on average, I don't know. There are certainly fewer people than over there, and that must account for some of the differences in content scope.

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

I used to interact with people from my country on reddit

Because of that, along with me not watching/reading romanian news, i miss big events like the country being invited to schengen

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't that be at least on !europe@feddit.org ?

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, it was. It was all over lemmy for several days.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Got to be the change brother. Start posting stuff. I'll read it.

[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

DAE died a violent death on reddit years ago. I was there. I remember the backlash.

Let's not revive it here. This place is special.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but every time I hear about celebrity shit it's fucking stupid and it pisses me off so I consider missing it a good thing.

[-] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 4 points 1 week ago

I don't feel out of it, but I also use tiktok, ig reels (suprisingly amazing algorithim, least controversial, my 3d edm visual profile (amateur af) only sees 3d and edm reels for the most part, doesn't really favor low follower counts but its great for popular stuff.

I miss old twitter, wondering if any mastodon or pleroma instance is like that. Sharkey seems more tumblr ppls vibe. It was always current and fun to talk in.

Reddits out of it forsure, ppl can identify a redditor and its never a compliment lol. I always hated when ppl called me on, but they were spot on. Lemmy's not too bad, ppl just dont seem to care about pop culture here, might be due to lack of communities or posters, gotta be the change you want to see in growing communities like this.

I need to start posting more stuff on the edm ones, I feel out of the loop there and want them to be as active as reddit was.

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[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I’ve never wanted to be in it.

[-] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago

Be the change. Start discussing those things, and others will eventually discuss it with you.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

The problem, I find, is that it's very discouraging to do here. Much of the Fediverse is completely averse to mainstream media/pop culture. Even if you create your own community on your own instance, others will see it in their feed and will downvote it and tell you why they don't like it. And whether or not those users outnumber the users who would actually want to engage with that type of content, they are definitely the louder group.

[-] atomicpoet@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

Of course it’s discouraging because any deviation from a norm requires change, and people by their nature hate change.

But I’ve been on the Fediverse for quite a few years, and nothing moves the needle like stubbornness.

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