I took it as satire too, but what tells it’s /v/ ?
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setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This is /v/, which means this post is behind over 9000 layers of sarcasm.
polotype@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
The blue colorscheme indicates it’s from one of the non-18+ boards, and /v/ is the one of those that it would fit the most.
Technically you can set any board to any of a bunch of color schemes, but most users just leave the defaults or pick on dark theme for all of them.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Blue board talking about game industry stuff, it’s the only place that fits.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
All of which this platform will be oblivious to, because Lemmy just doesn’t do satire.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lemmy hates the shit out of satire lol
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
And 4 years on, I still can’t figure out whether it’s because of neurospiciness or divergent interests. Linux? 471 communities. Writing? 2 and the mods of the second one abandoned their accounts years ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Maybe it’s because even within the fediverse, there are too many people who agree to it unironically. i.e. Lemmy is just a little too diverse for most satire.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Pretty sure it’s the tism.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve gotten considerably more replies here than on Reddit from people who don’t understand sarcasm.
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Neurodivergents being overrepresented likely accounts for some of the tendency of people mistakenly taking things literally on Lemmy. But I think a bigger issue is just a lack of media literacy. People tend to close themselves off from opposing viewpoints, and what does filter through is often exaggerated or otherwise misrepresented to make it easier to ridicule. This pattern leads people into thinking something intentionally absurd is in fact serious. Poe’s law is something easy to observe on other platforms too, but it’s worse on a platform with an especially political and nondiverse userbase.
_g_be@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Damn autists, taking everything literally
mutilated_sphincter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No, you must be thinking of kleptomaniacs
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes, we are all very serious here. Yup. No funny business going on. Just us and our incredible seriousness. Sooo serious.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Oh tha k god its not just me.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lemmy is a big guy.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
For you
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Lemmy is still a relatively young community. I bet it gets better with time. I like to think that I already noticed small (and healthy) community growths.
And I do not have a metric nor an example. This is super vague, I know.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I don’t know. Lemmy’s majority user is former reddit users and even at the size reddit is now, sarcasm would constantly go over peoples’ heads
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure it’s because most of the people here are on the spectrum.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
A lot of users came here to boycott reddit. Taking this kind of action is quite hard when it comes to dopamine sources like reddit. The users that migrated have at least that in common. I’m curious what Lemmy will look like in 5 to 10 years with this kind of starter on the “lemmy agar”.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Lemmy does satire all the time, you’re just not reading it.
The problem that you are trying to identify is that satire needs to actually be satirizing something, ie, the context must be clear, and many people just assume the context in their head is the same as the context in everyone else’s heads.
You can see this illustrated by all the sarcasm that your comment has generated.
Now that the context is clear.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Satire in text form isn’t as simple to pull off as in visual media. Body language and tone matter a lot. As well Poe’s Law is in full effect anymore and someone having this view is actually not rare.