Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
Now that a lot of the commotion has subsided I’m just curious to know how y’all are finding the Lemmy experience in general and whether you use it regularly like you did reddit?
This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as “slop”.
Is ‘slop’ from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?
It’s their way of saying “low quality”, usually thrown at things they deem forced by a marketing team. Always gave me some anti-semitic vibes when I used to see it used in context but I’m not sure why off the top of my head.
It’s absolutely not a 4chan thing, “slop” has been used for aaaaaaaages.
I’d say it’s just an american thing, possibly specifically new york? idk
I don’t believe there is any 4chan connection - instead slop is used in the sense of
This might be why. I hate that I’ve seen this stuff before.
That’s gross (thank you for sharing the link, I haven’t heard of that one) but it is 100% not what hexbears mean as they refer to their own forum posts as “slop”. They just mean low effort “content” in the more generic English slang sense.
Yes you’re right (though I am not familiar with hexbear). The chan slang was just derived from the standard slang and once you learn about them it can taint your interpretation of it because dogwhistles can sometimes be subtle.
“If I encounter a word I do not know used by communists, it must be from 4chan because I am the most highly educated and professional person ever to walk the Earth.” — liberals
(I am Jewish and have been terminally online for years and have never heard that ‘slop’ is anti-semitic. Sounds like libs are just using anti-semitism as an empty accusation to silence communists to me, especially heinous when you consider who funded the Nazis in the first place and who rescued the Nazis after the Soviets destroyed them.)
Yeah, it’s ironic. Cause the slop is for US
WE consume the slop, it’s not an insult for the posts it’s an ironic insult towards ourselves for being too online