balderdash9

@balderdash9@lemmy.zip

I’m mostly half-serious.

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balderdash9,

Damn, we just screenshotting The Onion? That sure makes things easier

balderdash9,

All the money was spent on the corvette outside

balderdash9,

there is a solution

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/ce92df1f-5b01-465a-9f59-886145f79f41.webp

balderdash9,

Really let the guy with the lever off the hook. It’s your moral dilemma now lol

balderdash9,

Often the mods are arbitrary and inconsistent. Moderation can really suck sometimes

balderdash9,

Since I’m getting downvoted right now I can punch up: fuck you dann! Am I doing it right? lmao

balderdash9,
  1. The joke is in the image: of course the text description of it won’t land. But I can’t post it because it would get taken down
  2. Whether its funny is beside the point. Why did it get taken down? I see people screenshotting unfunny tweets and posting it to meme communities and it gets 1k upvotes.
balderdash9,

It’s starting to sound echoy in here. You can joke about kids being shot up in American schools but you can’t joke about abortion, fat people, etc., because then it seems too mean spirited.

balderdash9,

The left when you say anything vaguely offensive:

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/0a7681df-4106-4f2f-be59-0e6831258ed4.webp

balderdash9,

No, I’m a liberal but this site is sensitive af. I made a meme about a drinking pregnant woman and it got taken down

balderdash9,

What?

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/eeca756e-0c4a-4389-ae8a-ac1d19524941.webp

balderdash9,

The caption said: my wife out-drinking everyone at the table; our unborn son:

Then it has a picture of Tom the cat with eyes bulging that I edited to be in a womb. Guess darker memes aren’t allowed here?

balderdash9,

No, there is definitely a list of things you can make fun of on this site, capitalism, American healthcare/infrastructure/etc, bills/how expensive things are, killing the rich, etc. It doesn’t matter how tasteless or dark the meme is so long as you direct it at the right subject matter. This is effectively an echo-chamber.

balderdash9, (edited )

Anime has more broad appeal but the philosophical community on Lemmy seems virtually non-existent. Reddit even had graduate students/professors answering questions on r/askphilosophy. And r/askhistorians had even more success. It’s going to take a while for that to be replicated here.

balderdash9,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/8a540e30-9bb6-47bd-945c-2666a426c6c1.webp

Yeah, reddit admins won. Most people don’t care and at this point its hard to see what the admins could do to start a real exodus. Hell, my reddit usage is way down, but I still go there for niche subjects (anime, philosophy) because nowhere else is comparable.

balderdash9,

Also let’s not forget that Reddit has duration as an advantage. I can look back 10 years on a tv show that is no longer airing and there will still be discussion threads from when it came out. That’s literally impossible to manufacture overnight, so Reddit has a huge edge.

balderdash9,

I think you’re right. And if anyone wants to give a deep/thoughtful comment it often feels like swimming upstream. Nuances are ignored and people will just downvote you if they think you’re disagreeing with them (even if disagreement is only partial).

balderdash9,

And this is why we hate watermarks. Shit looks tacky

balderdash9,

Not everyone wants to pay for features that should be free anyway

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