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  • They are.

    They’re certainly not the kind of purely creative art most people think of as ART, and it’s definitely a crossover kind of art. But if memes aren’t art, then pretty much nothing Warhol did was either. Yeah, that’s not only an argument people have made, it’s also an interesting debate about the essence of art. But Warhol did memes. To an extent, Basquiat did too.

    All visual art is a form of shared consciousness, and that’s what memes are at the core.

    I would even argue that making a good meme, one that actually becomes widely shared because it transmits an idea, is a very difficult form of art. There’s skill involved, and thought. It’s only partially about the format/template (in cases where that’s the expression of the meme rather than it being less formalized). There’s an element of writing to it, some design craft, and you have to find the right audience.

    Memes are an art form with a low barrier to entry, but that doesn’t invalidate the form any more than cheap digital cameras invalidate photography as an art form.








  • Eh, anonymity is great for some things, less so in others.

    But burner emails are pretty much as anonymous as it gets on the fediverse. If you pick a random user name and cycle to a new account fairly often, you’re anonymous to other users. A VPN mostly anonymizes you from the instances.

    Being real though, that’s kinda dickish to the instances because you’re wasting the tiny bit of resources used to create accounts. If you do it often enough to really anonymize, it adds up.


  • It can go either way tbh.

    .world has some serious federation issues because of how big it is. Some communities do better after a move away because of that. Some do worse, particularly when the move isn’t handled right, or the move is to a new community that’s purpose made for moving to, and isn’t promoted well.

    In this case, I think that there’s room for multiple communities with the same name. No need to actually move anything because the topic is popular enough, and this instance is stable enough to make it more reliable.