First yeah sorry, I agree this one is more political than American, I guess I'm asking if I can expect to see more American and political memes in this community in general
Second, I just don’t think Lemmy has enough users and enough content to be picky and granular about categorizing all memes into the appropriate community. And that’s before we even get into the realities of federation and how there could be multiple active “memes@*” communities.
I 100% get why you think this, Lemmy is for the most part dead, there's maybe 30 or so 'active' communities and then participation drops off pretty hard and fast, and the few active comms are left wing progressive/Linux/Queer related, not like Hobbies/random things to discuss, there's almost 0 niche comms here
But my biggest problem is that despite the tiny size I feel like we're making it even worse by throwing American political shit in with everything
If you enjoy funny jokes for example and you went to the funny jokes community or whatever and threads were like:
non political funny joke
who is dumb? DONALD TRUMP! LOL
non political funny joke
REPUBLICANS ARE STUPID LOL
DONALD TRUMP SUCKS LOL
non political funny joke
non political funny joke
ISRAEL IS BAD NOT A JOKE
WHY NO AMERICAN HEALTHCARE NOT A JOKE
non political funny joke
and you weren't a left wing progressive American you'd get pretty annoyed, how many people are we fucking off just by having our loudest members of the community hog up the most visible comms?
This place is tiny and yet I've seen loads of people now commenting about how they hate, well let me quote this came up yesterday:
https://piefed.social/c/fedimemes/p/1825718/hurts-every-time
As for the reason for this decision, it’s because Lemmy and the Threadiverse in general didn’t turn out into what I envisioned it would be.
For a hot minute it was honestly great but eventually all that remained was tankies propaganda and depressing news. And probably a few non-political communities that sadly don’t really offset it for me.
Anyway I'll leave it there but nice comment ty
edit: I just realised this place already has a rule for this:
- No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world