I love interacting with you all very much, and I know there’s a lot of important political issues in the world going on right now. I love my Linux Mint setup, I support Palestine and trans people, and I’ve blazed through all of OG Star Trek, TNG, Voyager, and am now on DS9.
But I also want to discuss Luka to the Lakers and Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile and getting 5 Grammy’s, a tour, and a Superbowl halftime show out of it, you know? I wanna talk about your country’s Eurovision entries. Am I just not in the right communities?
That’s one of the reasons I use Lemmy. I see links to major news stories, those I’m likely to care about and nothing else news related. I think there are celebrity news and sports communities. I’d also be surprised if there isn’t a Eurovision community out there. But if the things you’ve described are “pop culture” then seemingly I have no interest in it.
Nah I’m with you on this. I have this weird set of interests that align me well with Lemmy, but also as a dirtbag couch goblin who binges reality TV like my life depends on it. I feel like Lemmy can get a little uh… holier than thou about it and I don’t feel like I have any trashy echo chambers anymore. I miss Instagram reality and all the snark subs tbh.
You get it. People are already dismissing Kendrick as “some rapper”. Imagine trying to talk about Single’s Inferno here. 💀
‘there is no posts related to my interests’ ‘go to domains specific to your interests!’ domain specific to your interests: last post is a reddit screenshot from 3 months ago, 0 comments
If !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works can do it, your interest can too
Gonna be honest, pop culture is the thing about Reddit I miss the least. I couldn’t care less what drama some rich people are getting into, unless that drama is their yachts being sunk by killer whales.
The place was truly dead when the front page became indistinguishable from supermarket tabloids.
Got to be the change brother. Start posting stuff. I’ll read it.
DAE died a violent death on reddit years ago. I was there. I remember the backlash.
Let’s not revive it here. This place is special.
Yes and I love it.
You can always create posts in appropriate communities to start conversations on topics you’re interested in. Be the change you wish to see in the world.
I don’t care much for most pop culture stuff and get enough by happenstance from other sources/people.
Even when I was still on Reddit, I needed a friend to explain to me that Funko Pops don’t do anything - you just have them.
So really I think it’s just me.
Hahaha yeah Funko Pop collectors are so weird right hahahaha
-casually hides my Play Arts Kai Sephiroth and Cloud behind a curtain-
No. I make my own pop culture.
Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.
I think this is a problem with the Fediverse in general.
Search Kendrick Lamar on BlueSky and it’s filled with people celebrating it, breaking down different aspects of the show, and making memes. Search the same on Mastodon and you get news articles about the show and the occasional personal post. A majority of the posts have 0 engagement on most of the posts.
There’s indeed only one post on !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz with 25 votes and 0 comments
I think that’s more mastodon’s flawed search than anything. Cause it’ll only look for the specific term, so if someone don’t use Kendrick’s full name, it’s not gonna show up. Or if you look by tag, you won’t see much anything cause no one tags half their stuff
Yes, the search is bad on the microblogging side of fedi
That definitely hinders discoverability. My feed is basically a depressing mix of climate change and politics.
OP, this is a pop culture reference. Your lemmy account will now be revoked. 🔫 Hand it over
I am nothing if not a contradiction.
*I’m nothin’ ifn’t a contradiction
I’m: A Contraction
Personally I’m longing for more discussion about ideas and less about events and definitely less about people.
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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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.
Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes. Because it’s like the users here actually want ‘All’ to just be politics all the time and for there to be no variety to anything. You can talk about missing features from Reddit and think of ideas to make this place a little better and you’ll get responses like “No. Why would anyone want more features? I know that I don’t have to personally use them if I don’t like them but I prefer pretending it’s 1998, so no one can have them. And why would we want more users? I like empty communities with no activity. And then complaining about empty communities with no activity.”
So I dunno. It’s gonna be interesting to see if this place actually grows or if it just stagnates. I’m right there with you though. I’d be more than happy to see pop and sports and things I’m not really interested in because then there’s a bigger chance of things that I am actually interested in taking off here.
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).
“Why would you want to, pop culture is vapid”
A lot of these people think they’re better than you for having more s o p h i s t i c a t e d and mature, adult-like interests.
I won’t challenge them directly, I guess, because it’s the entire thread and that would be aggressive, but it is rooted in insecurity.
Honestly this place is starting to piss me off a little bit sometimes.
What you describe is a vocal minority. It’s pretty obvious that most of the users wouldn’t wind getting the place getting at least twice as active.
Not sure if I mentioned it to you, but you are aware of !communitypromo@lemmy.ca ? I’m going to start daily threads there to promote non-political communities
You are a shining light in this place when it comes to promoting growth. So just so we’re clear, because I’ve discussed features and stuff with you a couple of times now, I was not picturing you when I made my comment here. You’re more or less carrying this place on your back as far as guiding and encouraging new users goes. So also thank you, you rock.
And yup. I’ve seen you promoting this community lol and I’m already subscribed!
Thank you for your nice comment!
Politics flood All because that is what most people post and upvote here.
Building a new community requires yelling into the void for a few months and heavy cross promoting to get any traction.
a few months
Depends on the community. We started !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com a few days ago and reached 1000 users.
You can have users, but they need to participate.
For something as mainstream as popculture, it shouldn’t be that much of an issue.
But indeed, I agree with you for a niche topic.
