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?

  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
    2·
    2 hours ago

    That’s one of the reasons I use Lemmy. I see links to major news stories, those I’m likely to care about and nothing else news related. I think there are celebrity news and sports communities. I’d also be surprised if there isn’t a Eurovision community out there. But if the things you’ve described are “pop culture” then seemingly I have no interest in it.

  • Lenny@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 hours 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·
      2 hours ago

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

  • laranis@lemmy.zip
    5·
    6 hours ago

    DAE died a violent death on reddit years ago. I was there. I remember the backlash.

    Let’s not revive it here. This place is special.

  • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
    6·
    7 hours 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

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 hours ago

    There are bajillion other sites where you can wallow in mainstream pop culture and consume whatever slop that has been deemed as sufficently advertiser friendly. I am here to fly my freak flag high.

  • 31337@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    9 hours ago

    You can always create posts in appropriate communities to start conversations on topics you’re interested in. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

    I don’t care much for most pop culture stuff and get enough by happenstance from other sources/people.

  • slinkyjelly@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I dunno I barely know what people are talking about anyways even when using reddit or twitter because most of my interests are aren’t that mainstream

  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    281·
    13 hours 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
      1·
      5 hours ago

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

  • SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    13 hours ago

    Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    15·
    14 hours 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
      41·
      14 hours 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
    11·
    15 hours 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
      2·
      14 hours 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
        2·
        12 hours ago

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

  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
    5·
    13 hours ago

    I used to interact with people from my country on reddit

    Because of that, along with me not watching/reading romanian news, i miss big events like the country being invited to schengen