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?
Not really. I find that most “pop culture” still gets talked about, it just doesn’t get pushed into everyone’s face by an algorithm.
If I drift away from my subscribed feed and look at the all feed, it doesn’t take long for something or another about pop culture to pop up. And then if I’m interested, I go to the particular community that’s talking about it and subscribe. The more I do that, the more interests start to show up in my subscribed feed.
For the most part, these communities all exist, there’s just no algorithm saying “hey…you’ll probably like this”. And so you have to find them yourself.
What pop culture communities are you a part of? I would also like to subscribe.
I haven’t been in the loop since 2016.
Hmm… maybe? But I’m ok with it. All those things in your second paragraph are things I’d never care about anyways.
That’s why I’m here. This week, I learned who Kendrick Lamar and Drake are, and I feel stupider for it.
Tbf, Kendrick Lamar is an unbelievably talented musician. Drake is just a lame ass celebrity, you can easily ignore him and be better off.
But Kendrick has made some really fantastic albums. If you’re not into rap than you might not care too much anyway, but he doesn’t belong in the same conversation as Drake, despite their dumb ass feud.
I don’t even like hip-hop that much but Section 80 and Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City are easily among my favorite albums of all time.
Kendrick Lamar has a Pulitzer, why would you feel stupid for learning about him?
Not him, per se, but the realization that I’m part of the same species with people who care about foreign royalty, what some actor was wearing, or a rap feud. Cripes, there’s even a separate Wikipedia entry about it, which somehow meets the notability requirement.
It’s a particularly notable rap feud though.
Kendrick Lamar is fucking brilliant. To Pimp a Butterfly and Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City are absolute brilliant albums that examine blackness in America, alcoholism, family dynamics… he’s a god tier lyricist.
And he basically dropped diss after diss on Drake - musically brilliant, while also airing out the fact that Drake is a sexual predator, involved with Diddy parties - like Kendrick was doing some shit akin to exposing an Epstein through music so fucking good and catchy that it took over TikTok and the world.
It’s probably the biggest feud since the West Coast/East Coast rivalry of the 90’s - which ended up with several people dead. Kendrick won with the power of his writing. Like people genuinely are expecting Drake to possibly kill himself, because you can’t beat the fact that every teen in America was singing along to “tryna strike a chord - probably A minor.”
I get being dismissive of pop culture in general, but I would strongly advise anyone who hasn’t listened to Kendrick to have an open mind. The show was also brilliant and layered - he brought out Serena William to crip walk to further own Drake - he had stalked and harassed her for years.
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.
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.
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
We did have a Luka to the Lakers over on [email protected]
Just saying.
I’m exclusively on the fediverse, I don’t feel disconnected from pop culture at all. There is a lot of politics and meta discussion, I’ll give you that
Subscribed, thanks! I searched NBA on the global community search and got nothing, I wonder if it just wasn’t federated on my instance yet.
I wish I was there losing my mind with the rest of you last week
It’s hard to figure out why some communities show up and others don’t on the search. It’s definitely a good idea to subscribe to [email protected] and other communities like it to make sure you don’t miss them when they come up. I think someone was working on a better search for Lemmy but it seems to be abandoned
Thank you, I couldn’t remember the latest community address when typing out my reply
I’ve never wanted to be in it.
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.
There’s indeed only one post on [email protected] with 25 votes and 0 comments
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
That definitely hinders discoverability. My feed is basically a depressing mix of climate change and politics.
Yes, the search is bad on the microblogging side of fedi
I find that I see memes here about a week before my wife shows them to me (presumably from reddit)
The memes here are definitely in 3008.
But you can’t really…discuss a meme, if you know what I’m trying to say (sorry I just woke up). In my post I gave examples of world events as my “pop culture”. I’m not really discussing memes around a water cooler, you know?
There is [email protected] for USA news without politics.
Not sure if there is anything similar for world news.
‘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
If [email protected] can do it, your interest can too
I’m of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don’t feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I’m out of it being around here.
On one hand I don’t mind that, as I’m frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It’s not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it’s produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it’s a vibe I resonate with.
On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you’re trying to cultivate. It’s too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there’s not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people’s interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.
So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.
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'cause capitalism trying to monopolize everybody’s time and make everyone feel they gotta make everything make money
This comment resonated with me a lot. I think I am in the same boat as you, and one of the reasons I am happy to use Lemmy as my primary method of social media/online engagement/whatever is that I am SO SICK of having algorithms pushing what I should like or be discussing. But also, people who are engaged enough to think like this are sometimes a bit too serious and (sorry to use a potentially dated term) I miss the normies a little bit, lol.
So in a way, yeah, but also I’m more bummed that it’s so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.
This is so real. Unironically, I miss BBS communities where you had threads/subcategories for whatever niches you had, and then when something big happened it would get pinned to the top and EVERYONE would swarm to it. Discord tries to do that, but it’s remotely not the same.
…should we go back to BBS?
Piefed has Topics, e.g.: https://piefed.social/topic/sports-fitness
They will probably improve that in the future
DAE is what? I know, but i need reminding.
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There it is. You win
“Does anyone else” sorry, I was trying to keep the title snappy
I know, thats why i asked for clarification. Thank you!
I love that the snark isn’t here yet. Lemmy still seems friendly
Oh snark is here in spades. Im guilty of it a lot myself.
DAE is short for Does anyone else.
Dysfunctional American English
I don’t. We have most of the news everyone else has, if not the same. So i feel up to date on world events on the days i don’t bother reading actual news.(Although id prefer less USA news everywhere)
For entertainment there are comms, especially on .ee that cater to movies and tv well enough. Though some stuff slips by, but that’s ok.
For more specific things it helps to search for whatever subject you’re interested in. Barring Superbowl, which is actually Superb Owl, I’m sure there’s people here talking about the game and the show. Sports is definitely covered on lemmy.
If there isn’t that you can find, then make it happen. People interested will reapond if you post it.
