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I had two different reactions to your comment simultaneously.
First, yeah the meme is political but you went hard on the American angle. But the image is of israel, it says israel in two places, it's joking about the pope which is not an american thing, and then it mentions the name of a dead american.
Second, I just don't think Lemmy has enough users and enough content to be picky and granular about categorizing all memes into the appropriate community. And that's before we even get into the realities of federation and how there could be multiple active "memes@*" communities.
First yeah sorry, I agree this one is more political than American, I guess I'm asking if I can expect to see more American and political memes in this community in general
I 100% get why you think this, Lemmy is for the most part dead, there's maybe 30 or so 'active' communities and then participation drops off pretty hard and fast, and the few active comms are left wing progressive/Linux/Queer related, not like Hobbies/random things to discuss, there's almost 0 niche comms here
But my biggest problem is that despite the tiny size I feel like we're making it even worse by throwing American political shit in with everything
If you enjoy funny jokes for example and you went to the funny jokes community or whatever and threads were like:
non political funny joke
who is dumb? DONALD TRUMP! LOL
non political funny joke
REPUBLICANS ARE STUPID LOL
DONALD TRUMP SUCKS LOL
non political funny joke
non political funny joke
ISRAEL IS BAD NOT A JOKE
WHY NO AMERICAN HEALTHCARE NOT A JOKE
non political funny joke
and you weren't a left wing progressive American you'd get pretty annoyed, how many people are we fucking off just by having our loudest members of the community hog up the most visible comms?
This place is tiny and yet I've seen loads of people now commenting about how they hate, well let me quote this came up yesterday:
https://piefed.social/c/fedimemes/p/1825718/hurts-every-time
Anyway I'll leave it there but nice comment ty
edit: I just realised this place already has a rule for this:
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
There are so many comma splices in there.