No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes?
I've noticed that there isn't a single Lemmy community, Mbin magazine etc. for Fediverse memes.
Is that because 99.9% of the Threadiverse came directly from Reddit, almost all Lemmy communities and *bin magazines are outposts of subreddits, and Reddit doesn't meme the Fediverse because hardly anyone on Reddit knows the Fediverse in the first place?
Is it, in addition, because especially Lemmy is too detached from the rest of the Fediverse to know what's memeable and to really understand memes about the Fediverse outside Lemmy?
Or is it simply because Fediverse memes go into other, more general communites/magazines where they simply drown in the flood of other threads?
I mean, I barely see any memes about the Fediverse anywhere on Mastodon. That may be either because your typical Mastodonian is not cut from meme-maker wood, or your typical Mastodonian doesn't know enough about the Fediverse beyond Mastodon, or next to nobody hashtags their meme posts. so they're impossible to find.
And so I thought that this is more common in the Threadiverse, seeing as how meme-happy Reddit is.
No time to run and moderate it. I'm not primarily a Lemmy user, I'm mostly on Hubzilla and (streams). It can happen that I'm absent from Lemmy for weeks.
to be fair there isn't that much about the fedi in general that you can meme about. the closes you can get are in jokes but:
a) lemmy doesnt have them because this place is uncreative and only serves as a dumping ground from memes from other places when they aren't bickering about politics
b) in jokes of different parts of fedi do not translate well just because they share a protocol, given the extremely little overlap on people here
c) they're not really "fediverse memes" just because they happened in the fediverse, are they
most people on lemmy do not understand the tradeoffs both activitypub and it's implementors do, as evidenced by this exact community we're in. these memes wouldn't gain any traction even if they were funny to their intended audience (which i have doubts on if it's possible to do but idk i'm not creative enough)
Mastodon users thinking the Fediverse is only Mastodon
Lemmy users thinking the Threadiverse is only Lemmy
Mastodon users thinking the Fediverse started with Mastodon
Mastodon being ridiculously underpowered in comparison to just about everything else, particularly Hubzilla and (streams)
Mastodon users wishing Mastodon (or, better yet, "the Fediverse") had certain features which are readily available just about everywhere outside of Mastodon
Mobile apps built against only Mastodon
Fediverse tools built against only Mastodon
Pleroma being lightweight
Mastodon's culture which Mastodon users are trying to force upon the rest of the Fediverse
Forkey antics such as "Speak as cat"
Forkeys in general
Forkeys inspired by Blåhaj vs Mastodon's mastodon plushie
Mastodon users still uploading videos to YouTube and not to PeerTube
Hubzilla's UI
Sharkey's infamously bad Mastodon API implementation
Friendica federating with everything, especially juxtaposed with some Mastodon users not wanting to federate with anything that isn't vanilla Mastodon
Hubzilla's ability to host Web pages
Nomadic identity
Bluesky's AT protocol seeming like a cheap knock-off of the Zot and Nomad protocols in parts
Self-proclaimed Fediverse experts who actually barely know anything about Mastodon and don't know anything about the rest of the Fediverse
Character limits
Threads perhaps wanting to EEE the Fediverse vs Mastodon actively trying to EEE the Fediverse right now
Mastodon's poster-side content warnings set in stone in what they want to be the Fediverse culture vs Friendica's, Hubzilla's, (streams)' and Forte's automated, reader-side content warnings which have been around for longer
Generally, the Fediverse being older than Mastodon
Lemmy only barely federating with everything else
/kbin essentially being dead
Permissions on Hubzilla and (streams)
"Conversations" on Mastodon vs conversations on Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams)
Certain points in the Fediverse history
Granted, I guess almost all of this will fly even over most c/Fediverse users' heads due to how detached Lemmy is from the rest of the Fediverse. But I don't really expect that many more Mastodon users to understand it, and those who do may be offended. Oh well.
id argue none of those are fun topics you can joke about but "memes as a form of outrage" (aside from, like, two) which is already a problem (see all the political memes on any of the meme communities for countless examples) we do not need to encourage imo
What I meant weren't screenshots from social media that are treated like memes.
I rather meant original memes made in the Fediverse for the Fediverse, lampooning the Fediverse, parts of it or certain aspects of it. Even if they're based on existing templates, no matter how old.
Also, it'd be nice if there was a place where such memes can be posted in the first place.
Most things on the Fediverse are limited by someone willing to put in the effort to make them happen. Create it, populate it with memes, and it will exist. People will still post to the larger communities though, bc they are more well-known.
Beyond that, I've got loads of ideas. But I don't want to post more of them here than on (streams). So I'll first have to define my way of posting them on (streams) to what will be a largely Mastodon audience in a way that satisfies Mastodon's accessibility requirements the best. I hope to speed up my meme-posting rate then.