outoftheloop

I am hesitant to Google because of all the absolute garbage that will come up, I don’t want to sift through. Can anyone give me a little sparks notes on the shit he stands for? What has everyone whipped up into a frenzy?

Is Musk competing with Zuck for the worst branding ever?

Posts referencing some things happening or not happening in small towns are all over lemmy & mastodon, sometimes with a picture of some country singer (?) with a cowboy hat (but never with a name do I can’t just google what’s going on)....

There’s been a lot of controversy lately surrounding the protest actions over on r/place but having never been there myself I don’t understand what the purpose of the subreddit was originally, or why protesting users chose that specific subreddit to utilize, a breif explanation would be much appreciated ✌️

I’ve seen headlines about actors/actresses protesting about stuff. The same goes for other creative talent in the entertainment industry. What’s going on there? What are their demands? What fueled these protests all of a sudden?

The site is down, and I don’t remember any calls for defederation or anything like that

Since yesterday the FMHY instance, lemmy.fmhy.ml, is seemingly offline. My main account is registered there amd I haven’t been able to access it all day....

It all of a sudden became TERRIBLE and now I can’t find anything? When did this happen? Why did this happen?

Woke up to Ohio (replacing beans)? Whatup Lemmy!?

What’s with all the downvotes?...

Also, what’s activitypub and mastodon? What do they have to do with threads?

I’ve noticed a lot of posts that have the word “rule” added to it even when it doesn’t seem to make sense. Sometimes I’ve even seen titles with only the word “rule”. Anyone know what it’s about?

Why the obsession with beans on shipost communities? What’s the origin of the bean meme?

Ages ago Elon Musk used to be positively regarded by most people. I missed everything that happened that changed the public opinion, I missed the changes he imposed on Twitter (though I gather it’s the same as it happened with reddit, only earlier) and yeah. I’m out of the loop. If someone can briefly recap the main events...

Why is everyone talking about some married couple traveling around upset about money? How does race factor into it? One of them is named Harry right? Did they have to change the rules about who gets to be queen because of this?

Something something happening is Moscow?

Hey folks… What’s up with the poop challenge?

I am very confused and disturbed 😳

I've seen quite a lot of memes and content related to the titanic on my frontpage. Waht's going on?

I keep running into comments where users are arguing for avoiding Lemmy, claiming that Lemmy supports authoritarian governments, supports the CCP, sides with Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, denies genocides committed by nominal communist governments, and other similar political claims. I know there are communist instances...

I heard Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world among others, but recently I have been seeing content from beehaw communities and users. Did they re-federate? If so, why? And if not, why am seeing updates from their servers again?

I vaguely recall reading that they expressed support for trans people and now conservatives are boycotting....

I get the concept of the Fediverse… and signed up/in on the sh.itjust instance (only to be defederated by Beehaw, but I digress)...

I’m almost always out of the loop and depend on people asking about loop things that Im not aware of to get back in. Can y’all start asking more about current events, pls?