Why is the meme presenting moralistic points as reasons to like/dislike a character when that has nothing to do with how engaging a fictional character can be? People like characters that are engaging, compelling, and entertaining, not because they are objectively good and perform good actions.
It's kinda like saying "This circle is red and this circle is blue. Guess which circle the fandom likes more?" and then completely disregarding the fact that one circle is simply drawn way better.
I've seen a lot of awful subreddits over time but PoliticalCompassMemes was the first subreddit I ran into that made me feel like I was actually staring into the start of the pipeline. The way it was masquerading as a "funny all inclusive political humour sub" at the time was nauseating and it's only gotten worse since.
I'll make the mandatory "Hi, I came here from Reddit" post that I'm guessing is mandatory on lemmy for threads dunking on the site? Might as well be my first post in the fediverse too to get that out of the way. Wish I had known about lemmy sooner tbh but better late than never.
Also if someone has the spare time for it, I'd love to get pointed towards whatever's commonly used for onboarding here. If there stuff I should be aware of and tools I should look into, what phone apps people use, that sorta stuff. I picked my host because I wanted something european but I'm now kinda eyeing the old layout option that world seems to have since I used to use the old layout on reddit too.
EDIT:
Wow, thank you for all the recommendations. Definitely gotta take a look at all the various apps that people are using to find one that works for me!
Why is the meme presenting moralistic points as reasons to like/dislike a character when that has nothing to do with how engaging a fictional character can be? People like characters that are engaging, compelling, and entertaining, not because they are objectively good and perform good actions.
It's kinda like saying "This circle is red and this circle is blue. Guess which circle the fandom likes more?" and then completely disregarding the fact that one circle is simply drawn way better.
I've seen a lot of awful subreddits over time but PoliticalCompassMemes was the first subreddit I ran into that made me feel like I was actually staring into the start of the pipeline. The way it was masquerading as a "funny all inclusive political humour sub" at the time was nauseating and it's only gotten worse since.
I'll make the mandatory "Hi, I came here from Reddit" post that I'm guessing is mandatory on lemmy for threads dunking on the site? Might as well be my first post in the fediverse too to get that out of the way. Wish I had known about lemmy sooner tbh but better late than never.
Also if someone has the spare time for it, I'd love to get pointed towards whatever's commonly used for onboarding here. If there stuff I should be aware of and tools I should look into, what phone apps people use, that sorta stuff. I picked my host because I wanted something european but I'm now kinda eyeing the old layout option that world seems to have since I used to use the old layout on reddit too.
EDIT: Wow, thank you for all the recommendations. Definitely gotta take a look at all the various apps that people are using to find one that works for me!