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Star Wars Memes

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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.

Technical note: if you're coming from another star system and are getting a "Subscription pending" message when trying to dock, that's just the console being slow to display the right message. The connection is already established. (Probably.)

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IMPORTANT

Do not post the "good friend" or similar copypasta

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Special days!

Friday and weekends: Caption contest. An image will be pinned, and we shall make captions for it and post them in the comments.

Wednesday: Theme day. We have Droids day, EU day, poem day, aliens day... Let the pinned post guide you. Memes with the theme are preferred.

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Separatist systems:

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Oh hey some real SW content for a change (perhaps):

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Our galactic citizens have requested more specific rules, so here are a few.

The general idea is, if you're looking here for rules, you're probably someone who doesn't need to have them spelled out. You're fine. But anyway:

This is a community for Star Wars memes. This means typically screenshots of Star Wars media with some text or context that's meant to be funny and/or thoughtful. All SW media is welcome: movies, games, comic books, fanart... Other kinds of content, like video links or meta memes (about this community, or Lemmy), are fine as well, just keep it on topic.
We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
As fans of fictional media, we can be passionate. If you very strongly disagree with something or someone, take a deep breath before reacting. Anger leads to the dark side!
Everything in Star Wars has happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and it's a rich universe of millions of words and millions of years of history. So current Earthly matters really shouldn't concern us here. In other words, leave politics, philosophies and convictions behind the door. This applies even if it's about something related to Star Wars.
Original content is preferred. Reposts are fine, just please limit to a maximum of 3 per day, per citizen. It is recommended, but not required, to mark original memes as (OC) and reposts as (repost).
Local mods are the Jedi council. They may take actions that are necessary to maintain peace and stability of the Republic, even beyond the rules outlined here. Follow their guidance.
Regular rules of the Lemmy.world instance apply.

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When they were your brother and you loved them (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Image Transcription: Meme

['Cast it into the fire' - a three panel meme featuring Isildur and Elrond from the Lord of the Rings. In the first panel, Isildur's hand is shown holding the ring between his fingers. In the second, Elrond speaks to him with an expression of distress and desperation, and the third panel shows Isildur responding with a smirk. The words "!starwarsmemes" (star wars memes) has been placed over Elrond's forehead in the second panel, and the words "r/lotrmemes" (lord of the rings memes) is written above Isildur's forehead in the third panel. The large text "reddit" in the first panel is placed on top of the ring itself]

Throw it into the fire

No

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It means a lot to see our transcription brethren out here in the fediverse. o7

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honoured to continue to serve o7

Accessibility should be a requirement, not a luxury

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hello there! You are strong and wise.

[–] DaleGribble88 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Star Wars Memes: "No, thank you! We don't want any more visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations!"
Lord of the Memes: ([email protected]) "And what about very old friends?"
Star Wars Memes: (clicks link) "Gandalf?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://epicsaxgandalf.ytmnd.com/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YTMND.... now there's a name I've not heard in a long, long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I kinda miss it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Who else is going to be in this fellowship? We need a full cast of players

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I was disappointed to see how much hate the mods were getting for taking a stand. Most of it was from people posting. The comment sections were mostly rebuking OP. Most people were saying things like “yeah, lord of the rings is TOTALY about bending the knee to fa face less power /s”.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meme of the day :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Great meme kid, now don’t get cocky

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really sucks cause that was one of my favorite meme subs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I feel like the quality over there of late was pretty good. Haven’t been to Reddit since mid June tho so idk what’s goin on over der atm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought I saw a lotr or other meme community here?

Well, it's not like that's stopping anyone from spinning up one here.

This community has no affiliation with any of the Reddit subs either. In fact I had pinged mods of all four star wars meme Reddit subs about moving to Lemmy, and neither has even responded.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe the admins went all Trade Federation and disrupted all communications.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That was even before the blockade.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lord of the memes
[email protected]
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Glad to see it growing. Made it a week before the blackout to have it ready and now the ball is rolling and it's getting a bunch of users

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm seems to be an empty community for me?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it depends on when your Lemmy server/instance first discovered it. In other words, I don't believe a Lemmy server will show posts from a community on another server from before someone searched for "[email protected]" from your Lemmy instance for the first time.
I think. I'm no Lemmy expert.

Try https://midwest.social/c/lotrmemes and you should see content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Damn. Maybe we should get the high ground fist...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Light the beacons!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What if we take the high grond instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

shakes fist at ground

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel the same way about r/mylittlepony.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aw, them too?

Though it's been kind of peculiar seeing people discussing whether a subreddit is "officially" moving to some place other than Reddit, because aside from a few subreddits where there's clear corporate backing there's nothing "official" about any of them in the first place. The only people who claim to be making some kind of "official" decision are a couple of mods, and ironically Reddit's fundamental position in this whole mess is that mods are easily replaceable.

I would dispute that "easily" part, especially for good mods, but it's not like the creation of each domain-specific subreddit was some unique event that can never be replicated elsewhere. There are bronies here in the Fediverse. There's [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], probably others I haven't bumped into yet. They're all small but they could grow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Though it's been kind of peculiar seeing people discussing whether a subreddit is "officially" moving to some place other than Reddit, because aside from a few subreddits where there's clear corporate backing there's nothing "official" about any of them in the first place. The only people who claim to be making some kind of "official" decision are a couple of mods, and ironically Reddit's fundamental position in this whole mess is that mods are easily replaceable.

The most official sense you get from the average community is that it is "this group of people" and if you convince enough of them to move, you've relocated 'officially' - in most settings, I don't think that the mods have that sort of relationship with the community members, that they can just announce a move and the move has happened. Instead, you need to coax people to the other site and persuade them to migrate over, and if you manage to move enough of them over then the previous community has "officially" moved - even if their old location still exists and there are still people there and maybe even a community reforming without the previous group.

Community migration I think is something that needs to be done protracted and over time, rather than in one big collective leap.

I would dispute that "easily" part, especially for good mods, but it's not like the creation of each domain-specific subreddit was some unique event that can never be replicated elsewhere.

In the fediverse, I think it really come down to which Named communities can grow the most in the near future; people go where other people are, so the easily accessible names and largest communities are going to see the easiest adoption by new users interested in that topic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. The idea of migration propably has to emerge from the community itself. It is quite humane for mods to cling to their position and to impede dismantling of their communities. That being said there has been some brave harbingers among moderators.

I think that every comment and post here is a step forward. After all more content means more people, and more peolpe means more content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm writing these comments from the perspective of a mod over there who is looking at trying to prompt community migration and who has a reasonable mandate from community voting around pursuing that - just that I'm super conscious at the same time that what they're asking for requires me or the rest of the team accomplishing a bunch of things that we can't directly influence.

I don't think a lot of the votes we're getting are also volunteers to come over here and be pioneers, they're indicating that they support moving everyone over. They want the community and population from over there, but located somewhere else, and practically speaking we can't make it happen that fast. They all have free will and it'll take time for them to contribute it. They're not driven to build a community or develop content - they want to join something already-existing and already meeting a need.

I think no matter where we end up, we're still facing a tipping-point problem as far as getting that momentum happening - while I'm also needing to weigh responsibility to the people remaining behind, the people showing up late, and balance being a good steward to both of those responsibilities without sabotaging the new community. That's further complicated by the fact that if we try to migrate and we "dismantle" our old community, Reddit just turns up, gives the subreddit to someone else, and the newcomers have every incentive to keep as many people on-platform as possible. In that specific case, everything gets worse, and community migration fails.

Equally, it's something I think needs to be a "carrot" solution, not a "stick" - they need to want to move to a new location, and we have to offer them something that they want in that location, it's neither appropriate nor productive to make the old community suck until they move to the new one. Doing that just winds up where they're going to resent us and they're going to actively seek out a community run by other people who haven't, to their perception, "pushed" them out of the old space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In the fediverse, I think it really come down to which Named communities can grow the most in the near future; people go where other people are, so the easily accessible names and largest communities are going to see the easiest adoption by new users interested in that topic.

There's been a fair bit of discussion on how to implement "multireddits" in Kbin and Lemmy (Lemmy issue, Kbin issue) and depending how that shakes out it might make even that less of a problem. I could group all those MLP groups together and view them all as a unified interface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel the same way about r/noncredibledefense and r/skyrimmods.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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And I still don't understand what it even means.

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