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?

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
    38·
    13 days ago

    I’m of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don’t feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I’m out of it being around here.

    On one hand I don’t mind that, as I’m frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It’s not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it’s produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it’s a vibe I resonate with.

    On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you’re trying to cultivate. It’s too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there’s not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people’s interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.

    So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

    obligatory

    'cause capitalism trying to monopolize everybody’s time and make everyone feel they gotta make everything make money

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzOP
      2·
      12 days ago

      This comment resonated with me a lot. I think I am in the same boat as you, and one of the reasons I am happy to use Lemmy as my primary method of social media/online engagement/whatever is that I am SO SICK of having algorithms pushing what I should like or be discussing. But also, people who are engaged enough to think like this are sometimes a bit too serious and (sorry to use a potentially dated term) I miss the normies a little bit, lol.

      So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

      This is so real. Unironically, I miss BBS communities where you had threads/subcategories for whatever niches you had, and then when something big happened it would get pinned to the top and EVERYONE would swarm to it. Discord tries to do that, but it’s remotely not the same.

      …should we go back to BBS?

  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    321·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
      2·
      12 days ago

      The place was truly dead when the front page became indistinguishable from supermarket tabloids.

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    Personally I’m longing for more discussion about ideas and less about events and definitely less about people.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzOP
      10·
      12 days ago

      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.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    15·
    13 days ago

    I mean, post the content and people will come? I think a lot of people would have commented on these things if they saw the thread

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzOP
      15·
      13 days ago

      This is true, but 1) It’s hard going from a passive consumer of a community to a facilitator of discussions (I have anxiety issues lol) but also 2) It’s hard to even know/find if there’s a community TO post in, you know?

      Maybe I’m just a Lemmy noob after almost two years here, but I do find community discoverability harder here, and there’s always discussions of fractionating communities even further. I don’t want to risk creating a new community, take up server space that my instance host generously provides, and then find out it was redundant.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    15·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzOP
      62·
      12 days ago

      Hahaha yeah Funko Pop collectors are so weird right hahahaha

      -casually hides my Play Arts Kai Sephiroth and Cloud behind a curtain-

  • dance_ninja@lemmy.world
    12·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • Battle Masker@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 days ago

      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

      • dance_ninja@lemmy.world
        4·
        12 days ago

        That definitely hinders discoverability. My feed is basically a depressing mix of climate change and politics.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    111·
    13 days ago

    I feel it, but to me it’s kind of positive.

    Like, I can belong to a social group without being bombarded with nonsense that is just noise meant to distract.

    It’s the same kind of liberation and control I felt when switching to Linux (since you mentioned it) - one decision, and the entirety of Windows drama is no longer relevant to me. I’m part of a much smaller, much more concentrated group of real people, in a sort of blissful silence to which I only admit the information and people I find worth my attention.

  • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
    10·
    12 days ago

    ‘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

  • Lenny@lemmy.world
    111·
    12 days ago

    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.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      12 days ago

      You get it. People are already dismissing Kendrick as “some rapper”. Imagine trying to talk about Single’s Inferno here. 💀