• Safipok
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    8 months ago

    I upvoted, but is c/Memes just Lemmy general now?

    • Andy@slrpnk.netOP
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      8 months ago

      Is this not a meme? I thought this counted. Lmk if it doesn’t belong.

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        8 months ago

        If you wanna get technically, according to Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene (1976) which first coined the term “meme”, a meme is "a unit of culture—such as “tunes, ideas, catch‐phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or building arches.”

        So yes, your post would count as a meme, but so would pegging