this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
551 points (99.3% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
35926 readers
2456 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm actually enjoying the smaller community. I joined reddit back in 2012. It was popular but not at the level it became. It was also mostly millennials back then.
I met a lot of cool people in meetups. I actually ran local monthly reddit meetups for 5 years until I moved.
Now reddit is mostly bots. But even before the level it is now, there were a lot of grifters. Rage bait. Thirsty posts. A lot of theft in art communities (not an issue anymore cause AI has stolen everything).
Fake bot accounts reposting front page stuff 2 months later and getting back on the front page. Trolls were getting out of hand.
All the companies selling reddit accounts. You could literally buy up votes. Still can.
Its just been going downhill for a while. And then the 2025 censorship and purge of veteran users.
All of my accounts are perma banned cause I outted some extreme hostile maga trolls. (And id do it again!)
You know there was a time when a lot of reddit was actually just being funny in a slightly antagonizing way. Like every one would play along and just ham it up. People do it here and it's definitely a more comfortable online space to be in.
Where people asked genuine questions they wanted to know the answer to instead of just asking for people to validate their opinion. Which is most of social media.
I sound like an old fart and maybe I am. But my gen experienced the Internet for the first time in our youth. And online social spaces were king of magical. I think I still cling to the idea that they can still be places of possibility. Places to connect genuinely with like minded people.
Back in my day, You could make your own geocities websites. For free. You had chat rooms. Yahoo games where you played with strangers across the country and chatted with them.
Msn Messenger.
I'm getting all nostalgic. And off topic.
Anyway. I like the smaller community in lemmy.
It's probably like 90% real people. For now.
And i don't think anyone sells up-votes . For now.
I don't mind if there is less content. The quality is decent and the comment section is more manageable and easier to be included in.
I hope we never change the Lemmy upvotes.
Both of these, especially together, created a chilling effect on open discussion. People would even delete their posts to preserve their karma.
Even when you're reading someone else's comments, it's delightfully difficult to cyberstalk them. "Sort by controversial" or "sort by negative" were great ways to find the least popular thing anyone said and smugly quote it years later.
Sure, there's third-party sites where you can see all that and more, but I'm not tempted to use them, and they reveal their users as losers.
Edit: to the downvoters, jk I don't care