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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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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.
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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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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:
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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.
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We are all friends here, and love (sometimes love to hate) Star Wars. Be nice to each other.
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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!
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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.
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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).
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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.
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General Kenobi.
You are a bold one.
General Kenobi
Reminds me of when the internet was new.
Ben? Ben Kenobi! Boy, am I glad to see you!
So you broke it!
Hi.
Welcome to Lemmy!
Hello from kbin!
Could we stop having animations all over the place without having allowed them.
Not a huge fan either, but can't really see a good reason to ban them. I'd also rather not see more simple "Hello there" posts, but don't wanna deal with a mutiny on my hands if I start deleting Kenobi.
That said, if it gets out of hand, we'll probably do something about it.
It's the autoplay that's annoying, if they only played when selected, it would be perfectly fine.
Maybe pitch it to the Lemmy devs or to the app of your choice.
Sure I would, except they are currently overburdened from what I understand.
So currently we must rely on self discipline, or simply block users who make posts that have thumbnails with animated gifs.
Animated avatar/thumbnal - instablock for sure.
I do expect some apps to have this functionality tho. Especially those that are ports of Reddit apps and thus farther along in development.
My app is Firefox.
Sorry, didn’t mean to start anything serious.
No worries
Are GIFs not allowed on certain communities? Do certain communities alter the thread when federating?
Pray they do not alter it further
Yes they are allowed, but they shouldn't be IMO. But I figure I'll just block users who make posts with animated thumbnails, until we can disable it.
Wait why are gifs bad?
Animated Gif, they are not bad by themselves, but they are noisy if they play automatically on your front page, if they waited until you expanded them, it would be perfectly fine.
But the autoplay is distracting and annoying.
Why don’t you want gifs?