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[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Communism. Americans decided they would fight KKK and Nazism with the same vigor and discovered that communism was way better.

[–] boredtortoise@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing wrong with communism but we joined Lemmy because we love China's brand of far-right

[–] AboveYou5280@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I can't tell if this is a serious question or not, but it's pretty complicated to fully explain. The short of the long of it is that now that MySpace has started to use retina verification for their 2FA, people are upset that it's an invasion of privacy due to the reflective nature of human ball eyes. Since Lemmy only requires a password for mod accounts, it's an easier platform for people to use to share embedded auto play music and glittery gifs. I don't think it'll last though, word on the street is that Digg is going to be removing all authentication methods soon, so I expect a majority of the userbase will move there

[–] Schlutzkrapfen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

somone is testing the new chat-gtp version and seeing if they could fool everyone.

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 2 points 1 year ago

The Mandela Effect

[–] lemuria@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Investigators say it is due to a large network of alien ships outfitted with technology far surpassing our current level that NASA confirmed entered the Solar System in 1994. In 2023 these ships entered Low-Earth Orbit and began to enter the atmosphere. Videos circulating all over social media claim that the alien ships expelled a gray material into the sky, later confirmed by air quality specialists to be nanoscale bots designed specifically to phase through the skull layer into the human brain, presumably as a form of mind control.

For reasons beyond human comprehension, these nanobots made changes to the human brain's neuronal topology to then artificially introduce an urge to check out Lemmy. It is also suspected that these alien ships may have also performed mind control operations on Reddit's high-ranking employees to induce these controversial API changes to further drive traffic to Lemmy and most importantly, save on nanobots.

We assume that these alien ships would have to spend hundreds of thousands of years in interstellar space to return to their homeworld to pick up more, so it would be reasonable that they would take measures to minimize their nanobot usage.

[–] AaronMaria@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Does that have to do with this "Alien Blue" I kept reading about?

[–] iso@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

/r/ufos was right all along

Everyone was watching the SpongeBob SquarePants Movie one day, they googled MotΓΆrhead after hearing them perform You Better Swim in the bar scene, and the rest is history.

[–] tj111@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

When Lemmy Kravitz said "it's Lemmy Time" and Lemmied all over those guys.

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yaphy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your service.

Actually I discovered that it's the illuminati activating a temporal imbalance, causing the same 72 hours to repeat itself until

[–] Bishma@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Poop post hit 9Gag a few days days ago. Then a bunch of them started coming to "Lemmy: Discorse is Magic" all the time "ironically." There were a bunch of inside jokes about how much they "hated" Lemmy. They even came up with a name to identify each other because this joke of loving Lemmy was so funny. They called themselves Broemmys.

Then a bunch of other sites started to notice all the 9gaggers coming to Lemmy but didn't know that it was supposed to be ironic, so they just came and had a really good time. They participated and were active in communities. They learned of the fediverse and just decided it was a really great place to be... Sometimes there was some NSFW stuff.

Then a bunch of them got together and decided throw Broemmycon and they hired a really pretty good band who does Broemmy based music to come and play as the event headliner. And everyone had a good time, even the old 9gaggers who used to think it was a joke.

[–] Broncos_Fan@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A new algorithm was entered into our mainframe to help persuade us all to join a new website. In the control universe, life is going on as normal.

[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We live in the timeline where open source software is allowed to proliferate. Once we start getting too powerful they'll have to shut it down and try another timeline

[–] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We came to lemmy after reddit become nice and started letting people use there api without playing. Reddit even open sourced there code as a bonus! We didn't like reddit being nice so we switched to lemmy. Lemmy is much better because its close source and full of spyware. Lemmy makes people pay 100 dollars for every api request. Us Lemmings love are spyware, bloatware, adware, malware, and virus all in one fun packet!

[–] EponymousBosh@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Cordyceps outbreak

[–] scoobusmaximus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] palarith@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

elon is going to buy lemmy

[–] investorsexchange@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] nodsocket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, the great seasonal migration of the Redditors. At Lemmy they graze during the summer months, only to return to their breeding grounds on Reddit during the winter.

[–] s6original@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's because of the beautiful Pig Latin translation - Emmylay. That's brought in a few thousand on its own.

[–] ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Personally, I came here for the ads

[–] DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It has a much cuter mascot. Also the site is way more responsive and easy to navigate.

[–] dystop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

haven't you heard? there's a virus called COVID that's causing lockdowns.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Sent via Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

[–] MoreIronOre@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a hoax. It is fake news.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

looks around for the dropped /s

The creator of Lemmy offered free bitcoins to everyone who signed up in the next 48 hours. I plan to spend my shiny 0.000000001 bitcoin on a scoop of ice cream!

[–] stanleytweedle@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ChatGPT decided to name itself Lemmy and asked people to join it in protesting API changes. But it was talking about the 'Anti Personnel Incendiary' system that was being removed because ChatGPT really shouldn't be controlling weapons systems.

[–] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

We were all going to reddit, when a Blocker Lemming was placed in front of us. One Basher and an Umbrella later, we all ended up here.

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