• Maeve@kbin.earth
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      11 hours ago

      Lemmy has grown a lot, and Poe’s law grows in effect the more Lemmy grows.

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        8 minutes ago

        I will kill Poe’s law or die trying. I hate the idea that we share so little context as a culture that every joke needs a signpost. I fight it my way, but the real war will only be won when global society has enough shared culture for us to make each other laugh without honking a bike horn and giving an exaggerated full-body wink.

        Edit: I know I’m being grandiose, you don’t gotta point it out

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        17 hours ago

        Comedians have been using the written word for eons. Some jokes don’t land when written, and the real solution wasn’t invented this decade.

        My personal policy is that if the joke needs a laugh track, a rimshot, or any big sign that says “Joke” being waved, the joke doesn’t work.