Yes, I can assure you that stupid memes have always been around.

What if they don’t use social media?

They’re around but not nearly as bad as they are on sites like Reddit, Facebook, X, etc. They are also usually called out when someone is trying to circumvent the bot tag. It probably helps that Lemmy is much smaller, so there’s less incentive to send spambots to something like Lemmy compared to larger places.

That said, asudox is right in that there aren’t really any built in safeguards either, it’s pretty much up to the admins and/or mods to stop them.

FFS

There’s nothing more free speech than banning a stupid meme.

That’s up to you, doesn’t really affect me, but it might affect you at some point.

Mine is still 3x7 - I like being able to climb just about any hill and having the option to go fairly fast on a flat.

I still ride mine!

Agreed, but it’s still weird to see Americans who claim to be patriots do stuff like wear the flag as clothing, let the flag touch the ground, etc.

Sure, and people will think of you what they will.

What’s a really good one?

Stalemate, then they become buddies

They’re all just forums with voting, but the salient point was that they were created to make money for the people who started the company.

Wearing the US flag as clothing is actually against US flag code, so when people wear it, it really highlights their ignorance and disrespect.

Capitalism also made reddit in the first place though. Greed isn’t exclusive to capitalism either.

Greed ruined reddit, AI was just some shitsauce on top.

Gliding is definitely my favorite, but that about sums it up. Still, I hope it gets a sequel or an expansion or something.

You answered your own question: The reason is because public policy has failed to protect people.

When you see it’s featured on Yanko Design, you can pretty much rest assured it will be functionally absurd.

Classic Yanko Design lol