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?
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.
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.
I don’t feel out of it, but I also use tiktok, ig reels (suprisingly amazing algorithim, least controversial, my 3d edm visual profile (amateur af) only sees 3d and edm reels for the most part, doesn’t really favor low follower counts but its great for popular stuff.
I miss old twitter, wondering if any mastodon or pleroma instance is like that. Sharkey seems more tumblr ppls vibe. It was always current and fun to talk in.
Reddits out of it forsure, ppl can identify a redditor and its never a compliment lol. I always hated when ppl called me on, but they were spot on. Lemmy’s not too bad, ppl just dont seem to care about pop culture here, might be due to lack of communities or posters, gotta be the change you want to see in growing communities like this.
I need to start posting more stuff on the edm ones, I feel out of the loop there and want them to be as active as reddit was.
Ngl, Mastodon is closer to feeling like Lemmy than Twitter. I know it’s heresy to say here, but Bluesky is probably the closest feeling to old Twitter, including the random 3am hole pics on “What’s Hot” lol. I scroll there, but I don’t post bc I find talking on Lemmy a nicer experience tbh.
I also find it interesting that you find IG Reels a better algo for you than Tiktok, because most people say their Reels algo is a MESS. You must have curated your follows and likes pretty well.
Yeah I unfollow ppl if they like stuff I dont like since it taints the algorithim, for the most part I get a suprisingly decent feed on my official real person account, and a really good one for my 3d visuals account.
I like seeing other ppls likes, my whole twitter feed used to be some of my friends likes that ithe algorithim realized I enjoyed (itd show who liked it when showing you the post) my feed went to shit after they turned that off.
I do think if any of those pop culture communities get abnend because of a controversy they might come here, isnt there a defederated drama community?
Yes and I love it.
Yes and I love it
Go on asklemmy and ask what people think of the situation. Go on casualconversation and talk about your opinions.
Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile
OH SHIT! That’s right! I forgot! Kendrick was doing the half time show! 😂
Thank you for posting this! I gotta watch the half time show now!
Watch for the enormous shit eating grin behind the microphone when he says “Hey Drake” on stage.
💥💥💥
I’ve been way out of pop culture loop even before I started using Lemmy.
Yeah, but every time I hear about celebrity shit it’s fucking stupid and it pisses me off so I consider missing it a good thing.
I made a community for survival horror games because I like them and like talking about it. Build it and they will come. Make a community to talk about things you like and those with similar interests will join.
Link pls
Feel free to promote it on [email protected]
Thank you! I will!
It’s not like Reddit stopped existing. Lemmy will (hopefully) never be Reddit. That means that some itches Reddit will still have to scratch.
You want to be on a bigger instance, like Lemmy.World. Always room to grow, but closer to what you’re wanting these days
I’ve never wanted to be in it.
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
Wouldn’t that be at least on [email protected] ?
Yes, it was. It was all over lemmy for several days.
I feel it, but to me it’s kind of positive.
Like, I can belong to a social group without being bombarded with nonsense that is just noise meant to distract.
It’s the same kind of liberation and control I felt when switching to Linux (since you mentioned it) - one decision, and the entirety of Windows drama is no longer relevant to me. I’m part of a much smaller, much more concentrated group of real people, in a sort of blissful silence to which I only admit the information and people I find worth my attention.
I dual boot Mint and Win11…maybe that’s my problem…
Some people recommend dual booting. I recommend having at least one cheap SBC in your home that’s dedicated to running Linux, and eventually to keep Windows on big enough machines for professional work, video games, and so on.
But the kids? Sure, they should run Linux, unless specified otherwise by their schools, until they’re old enough to decide by themselves.
I’d encourage you to push for free software if you’re stuck on Windows, but that’s another issue, I just think you might keep this machine on Windows and install Linux on a lowtech computer. It depends on what you need Linux for but with my eeePC the only bottleneck is the web.
