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commrequest: popularculture (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dead@hexbear.net to c/commrequest@hexbear.net

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popular culture

For observing and discussion of cultural phenomenon, entertainment, celebrities, internet culture, zeitgeist, etc.

Every newspaper has a culture section. The news comm doesn't like culture/entertainment articles. The chapo comm doesn't like stuff outside of the chapo subculture. People want the gossip comm to be closed. The slop comm is meant for screenshots of stupid internet posts.

Pop culture influences the way that people feel, think, and live their lives.

Pop culture would attract people to the hexbear instance.

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We could change it to c/gossip & popular culture

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

In some interfaces and apps for Lemmy, the display name for a comm is not visible, so it would just show up as c/gossip. I wish there was a way to force a name change on a comm instead of just deleting it or locking it. I get the desire to want to preserve the existing comm and its subscribers. But people who were subscribed to c/gossip might just be interested in posting shit takes from Musk and Co into the Slop comm and might not be interested in talking about Taylor Swift's relationship status.

But that's why the distinction is good. c/slop is like the low effort version, where we can take obvious shit takes, regardless of who they are, and post them to catharticly point and laugh. c/pop_culture would be the place for people invested in the more interpersonal aspects of popular culture or long drawn-out dramas between people (think the Hasan vs Ethan drama for example)