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DAE feel a bit out of the pop culture loop using Lemmy as their primary social media?

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  • Subscribed, thanks! I searched NBA on the global community search and got nothing, I wonder if it just wasn't federated on my instance yet.

    I wish I was there losing my mind with the rest of you last week

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  • OP, this is a pop culture reference. Your lemmy account will now be revoked. 🔫 Hand it over

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  • Would you be interested in my 4 000 word thinkpiece on how Kamala Harris' campaign co-opting Charli XCX's Brat Summer is a perfect encapsulation of the how the neoliberal mechanisms in the United States try to use cultural capital to mask their regressive politics? Trump appearing on Joe Rogan, and George Bush's "drinking a beer with the little guy" will also make appearances.

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  • YES LETS GO! Subscribed. That place better be popping off in May.

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  • I've noticed this too, but I didn't really want to say anything because I don't want to get into internet drama. I'm overwhelmed from this post as is lol.

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  • I dual boot Mint and Win11...maybe that's my problem...

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  • Link pls

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  • I hear you. I could go on about how pop culture is lame etc and not really answer your question but I think, the more the merrier. If I’m not interested in the Lakers, I can ignore it and scroll past it. Easy. It would be nice for people who want to discuss the Lakers to have a place to discuss the Lakers, though.

    Thank you for this! I got a few comments being like "Why would you want to, pop culture is vapid" and like...I know T_T, but that doesn't make ME vapid. Some people go on COD or whatever to blow off steam after work, I just want to go on my non-corporate social media to discuss how the Lakers traded away their future for AD and somehow STILL CAME OUT ON TOP (I have been praying for their downfall my entire life and it continues to not work).

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  • This comment resonated with me a lot. I think I am in the same boat as you, and one of the reasons I am happy to use Lemmy as my primary method of social media/online engagement/whatever is that I am SO SICK of having algorithms pushing what I should like or be discussing. But also, people who are engaged enough to think like this are sometimes a bit too serious and (sorry to use a potentially dated term) I miss the normies a little bit, lol.

    So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

    This is so real. Unironically, I miss BBS communities where you had threads/subcategories for whatever niches you had, and then when something big happened it would get pinned to the top and EVERYONE would swarm to it. Discord tries to do that, but it's remotely not the same.

    ...should we go back to BBS?

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  • I saw you commented several times on this thread, so just want to take the time here and thank you for all that you do to promote Lemmy communities and fedi in general, Blaze! You're one of the people who's efforts is what keeps me using Lemmy as my primary form of online engagement.

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  • This is what I'm kind of thinking too, like a r/popculture chat, but less related to celebrities and more about general non-political happenings. Maybe I'll message my instance admin and see what hosting something like that entails.

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  • The memes here are definitely in 3008.

    But you can't really...discuss a meme, if you know what I'm trying to say (sorry I just woke up). In my post I gave examples of world events as my "pop culture". I'm not really discussing memes around a water cooler, you know?

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  • This is a bit mean. Just because I want to talk about the WEIRDEST trade in the modern NBA (that has collusion vibes all over it), doesn't mean I am vapid and shallow.

    I volunteer a lot in my community and mutual aid spaces, and things have gotten a lot worse since the pandemic. Talking about so called "vapid" social topics is how a lot of us avoid burnout.

    Also if you watched Kendrick's Superb Owl performance, saw the message he was trying to portray about black empowerment, how ANGRY the establishment MAGAbros are over it, and still think of it as mindless drivel...maybe you're part of the problem.

    Things don't have to be academic to matter.

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  • I'm...not really sure what you mean here...but I think I understand and appreciate the sentiment?

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  • This is true, but 1) It's hard going from a passive consumer of a community to a facilitator of discussions (I have anxiety issues lol) but also 2) It's hard to even know/find if there's a community TO post in, you know?

    Maybe I'm just a Lemmy noob after almost two years here, but I do find community discoverability harder here, and there's always discussions of fractionating communities even further. I don't want to risk creating a new community, take up server space that my instance host generously provides, and then find out it was redundant.

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  • "Does anyone else" sorry, I was trying to keep the title snappy

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  • Hiphopheads community hosted on my home instance, and I had no idea it even existed. . Lemmy is never living down the poor community discoverability allegations.

    Kudos on trying to keep the TS community alive here. I don't really follow her outside of whatever hits the radio/wider pop culture news, but I remember when I moved to Lemmy your community would hit my front page and I was insanely jealous of everyone kee-keeing together in the comments. Maybe you're right and I should start shitposting about my hobbies on Lemmy, but dang it's hard going from a consumer to an active poster in any social media lol.

    • Rogan rule

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  • I sent this post to my friend. His response:

    • Betraying the honor of your own wife: JD Vance dragged for defending Musk aide who posted, ‘Normalize Indian hate’

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  • It's so sad because if you look at their resumes, Usha Vance is actually much more accomplished than her husband. Peter Thiel just prefers JD, I guess.