• li10@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    What is it with Lemmy users and not knowing what shitposting is…

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      5 months ago

      Probably has to do with it not being defined except for being confusing and possibly enraging

      Would posting any other lie be a “shitpost”?

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        It’s in the shitpost community, it’s like a textbook shitpost…

        When you watch TV do you say the actors are liars because they’re not actually the characters?

        It’s supposed to be stupid and ridiculous.

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          Yeah because when I watch TV the only expectation I have is for the actors just to state falsehoods /s

          Apparently according to people like you, this community should’ve just been named falsehoods

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                  “See if you think it’s a lie, that proves it’s a shitpost!”

                  So shitpost just means “I don’t ever want to see this pointless, boring and unfunny misinformation”. Cool, thanks for clearing that up.

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                    It’s satire, it mocks the idiocy of plugging AI into every single conceivable product or the current AI-will-solve-every-problem techbro overhype that’s constantly being talked about every day now.

                    Just cause you thought it was real and googled it doesn’t make it less of a shitpost my dude, sorry.

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            Key word there is “just”. It can include other things, but it can simply be a low effort post meant to infuriate people.

            Judging by the thread, and the fact that you keep dying on this hill, it worked beautifully on you.