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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?

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[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

This post is making me want to add hexbear to a word filter. Specially the blatant 4chan lingo such as "slop".

[–] airlinefood@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Is 'slop' from 4chan? I thought that was one of our originals?

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] scavenger_crab@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This might be why. I hate that I’ve seen this stuff before.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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