Statistics disagree with this. Some are listing ‘porn seeking’ where they include erotica and non-video content as high as 44%, others that are looking at video only are showing 11-15% or so. I’d have to go looking again, but that’s still not a small number of users, much more than 1%.

Do love the amount of tubers they eat, but I don’t know if I’ve had much that beats a proper gumbo and some bread pudding.

I don’t know. My assumption is that they’re easier to put together than well thought out titles and clear discussion lines, and there’s a certain level of inherent ‘safety’ in posting a picture/meme that does a lot of the heavy lifting for you for a joke. Not that I don’t like them, just that that’s my read of why they choose them over discussion

You ask ‘wouldn’t it be better’ if there were less memes

The community, through it’s posting, voting, and reposting, has chosen Memes regardless of whether it’d be better.

A lot of answers in here say “that’s how the fediverse works, people post what they want and engage with what they want, what they don’t want they can unsubscribe or block to curate their own feed, to avoid seeing parts of what the collective is sharing/talking about when using memes”.

What you’re describing requires unilateral control over what content various communities will engage in. It doesn’t matter if that’s what people like, so much as it’s what people continue to choose. If they like it, great. If they don’t, they’ll either curat their feed and not have a clue what you’re talking about regarding memes on the Frontpage, or they aren’t bothered or even like the memes on the Frontpage and aren’t looking to seek out more nuanced discussions and serious threads.

I don’t think he’s taking a shitty stance in stating that your job is relatively safe. Just that there are tons of safety regulations and protections that keep your profession off of a list like this

https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/civilian-occupations-with-high-fatal-work-injury-rates.htm

‘Organize a general strike’

You mean the thing they quash here with prejudice? The thing the US will build a jail on top of you for? The thing that they’ve prevented a majority of Americans from even attempting with the fucked social net and the paycheck-to-paycheck existence, dangling you just above homelessness (which they do nothing to fix or help people who are)?

Maybe in another part of the country I could feel that my neighbors and myself would provide and help one another, but I can’t even get these people to pick up their dog shit, let alone vote in their own best interests, or god forbid, take on the government that’s telling them I’m the devil and my cohorts are demons.

I agree with the want for one, but I think people’s wants and wishes get in the way of the colder reality. I used to think things like the trail of tears would be impossible to happen in the modern day here with technology and social mediabl, but honestly? I think the government would live stream it at this point