It does feel like that.
What you are seeing is the internet in its true form. Trekkies and computer nerds are the only native fauna of the internet, everyone else is an invasive species.
@DumbAceDragon you merely adopted the internet. I was born in it. Molded by it. When I saw broadband I was already a woman.
I was chatting on local BBS with a 9600baud Hayes external that was a huge metal box which would get hot to the touch.
Oh no!
Well anyway, I use Arch btw
Well anyway, I use Arch btw
Yeah, well I use Archer…in my memes.
I see you have faith of the heart
It’s been a long road…
Oh boy.
Ah shit, here we go again…
And DnD
Hey wait is this a nerd website
There’s not nearly enough D&D here
I’d take other ttrpgs if possible
Yeah Wizards can’t stop themselves from being the baddies
Let’s start talking about World of Darkness and Pathfinder
White Wolf isn’t better just because it’s smaller. And besides, we can branch out further. Burning Wheel, Lancer, Blades in the Dark, Monsters & Other Childish Things, The Quiet Year, Shadowrun…
Not quite! There’s also a load of… science memes… Fuck, it really is!
Also… Programmer humor! Well, shit. Political discussion! No, let’s be honest, that’s a different breed of nerd stuff, but still nerd stuff.
Roll for perception…
Natural 20
You also find some xkcd comics.
That doesn’t make it any less nerdy. Quite the opposite actually.
You find those on every website
Because there is always one relevant to just about every situation.
Don’t forget the communist propaganda.
I see more complaining about communism than communism itself. Do you reply to users from Lemmygrad or something?
Edit: Self-fullfulling prophecy in action. No wonder why I never saw it before. 😂
I had to block all of lemmygrad and hexbear(?) to make it stop
And further on from that the number of real tankies I’ve actually seen on here is miniscule compared to the howling mass of McCarthyites that crawl out of the woodwork.
McCarthyites
I never heard this term before do I looked it up. I can see why you would use it on people who actively seek communist content and then complain about said communist content.
Interestingly, I found this on the Wikipedia page for McCarthyism:
President Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9835 of March 21, 1947, required that all federal civil-service employees be screened for “loyalty”. The order said that one basis for determining disloyalty would be a finding of “membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association” with any organization determined by the attorney general to be “totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive” or advocating or approving the forceful denial of constitutional rights to other persons or seeking “to alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means”.[13]
Yeah that was part of the first red scare. McCarthyism was considered the second. All part of intrenching inequality by ensuring that the best paths to a healthier society are associated with authoritarianism.
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Propaganda is propaganda regardless of whether it’s good, bad or understandable
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Did I say I disagreed with you about the capitalism part? Propaganda can be both true and positive you know. Any information that attempts to change someone’s political views is by definition propaganda.
False dichotomy
it’s not a dichotomy, you brainlet
The mental cancer predates capitalism, and has also brutally manifested itself in parallel in socialist nations.
Stalin, Mao, the Gang Of Four, Honecker, Hoxha, Kim Il-Sung, Ceauçescu, Pol Pot… the list is dismayingly long; so many tyrants as fucked up as anything one could come up with in capitalist nations, and even more. They tapped into the bloodlust of the oppressed, to build a new apparatus of oppression, their generals covered in a hundred solemn yet worthless medals, those bastards sure loved the status and pomp, displays and parades.
These nations build walls not so much to keep a potential enemy out, but to keep their own people in. That should tell you enough you need to know about how life was in those places.
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No, you’ll still have all the memes about how it’s only Linux and Star Trek content left.
That’s not true! There’s lots of politics! sobs
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And it’s sometimes really local-interest stuff. My block list of commilunities is in the hundreds, because people create comms for their county/city/neighbourhood then that hits my frontpage
And a lot of those politics are some of the worst takes imaginable
Sighs and shakes head
I agree, it’d be much easier if everyone just agreed with my ideas
I agree with both of you. Damn, that was pretty easy.
The best thing about this comment is that both the people you disagree with and the people you agree with will feel identified with it.
Just block the communities that you don’t want to see content from. You always have the option to browse things while logged out to get a sense of what’s going on overall
I do. And then sometimes it feels like there’s nothing left except politics (which doesn’t confine itself to communities focused on it)
You forgot about leftist infighting.
Name a more iconic duo, leftists and infighting.
JPF vs the PFJ?
SPLITTERS!
Why not remove the tracking part? Everything after the ? In the link is just for tracking.
Peanut butter and bananas.
That don’t trend very often when sorting by “All top 6hr”.
For me it’s nice that you don’t have to set any filters just Linux and Star Trek memes all the way down!
Yeah exactly
Also I almost understand the DND memes so it’s great to have a break every 200 posts
Mostly the liberals and the tankies. So, left infighting, maybe, leftist, not so much.
I feel like the fact that you can name all of those as different groups means that you’ve already fallen for the feldspar trap.
I don’t have a response to this comment that doesn’t violate community rules.
I’m loving science memes right now
Science memes are like programming memes in that they teach me something because I have to look them up to get the joke.
Everybody moved to [email protected] because of some drama/bad mods at startrek.website.
If there’s one thing you can trust on the Internet, it’s people to be honest about what happened in nerd drama
That’s not been my experience (the opposite actually), but the cool thing about the Fediverse is that it has room for all. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations!
You’re an admin of StarTrek.Website. Of course it hasn’t been your experience. You’re biased.
So what happened exactly?
Nothing really, a banned user had an absolute meltdown and ran away to start their own meme community with blackjack and hookers (by which I mean they search “star trek” on ifunny.com and repost the findings).
Interesting
I see stamets drama is still effective on you guys.
You forgot our queer mates, there’s surprisingly a lot more communities about this than I expected
It does work tho. In the past six months, I’ve became a proud Linux champion and really enjoy it. It’s a nice change from Reddit celebrating women getting punched in the face.
Eh, I’m quite a big fan of linux, but having Linux mentioned under almost literally every post here feels tiring 😅. Yes I use linux but no I don’t want to constantly talk and think about my choice of operating system.
Feels like switching to Linux solves all your life problems according to people here.
My gf doesn’t like me anymore. Have you tried switching to Linux?
My bathroom door squeaks when opened. Have you tried switching to Linux?
I have bad diarrhea. Have you tried switching to Linux?
If you are having problems with all of the Linux posts then it’s up to you to fix the problem. I’d suggest you buy an old Lenovo laptop and install Arch Linux and compile everything from source. That should solve this and a multitude of other problems in your life right now. 🙂
😂😂😂
Feels like switching to Linux solves all your life problems according to people here.
That’s because it does./s
Can I run Linux on my chromebook?
Isn’t your Chrome book already running Linux?
My mom’s chromebook runs Debian.
Those are the whole reasons most of us are here.
Linux and Star Trek are the reason most people use Lemmy? Guess I didn’t get that memo.
you would have to filter out communism too ☭
That’s be the rest of Lemmy.
So, is politics in the Linux category or memes category?
Modern politics is the prequel of star trek
If we win.
