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Post memes here.

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] embrcrndm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would you mind doing a quick "ELI5"?

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm probably not the right person to explain it as I still only have a rudimentary understand of it.

[–] embrcrndm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tkk13909@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@embrcrndm @altima_neo I'll just say this: I'm currently sending this from Mastodon. Your instance and my instance both use the ActivityPub protocol which is likened to email by many people.

[–] embrcrndm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tkk13909@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago

@embrcrndm No kidding :)

Welcome to the #fediverse!

[–] joshuaacasey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's like email. With email, if you have a @gmail.com address you can communicate with @hotmail.com addresses.

Well, with lemmy/mastodon/whatever they work the same way. Users don't have to all be on the same server to interact with each other.