What’s the most bizarre thing you have seen on Lemmy so far?

the dude trying not to shit
- My curiosity is piqued, mind giving a link?
  
  This one
  And then the same dude asked...

Marxists supporting Putin and his war
- Marxists? Got a link?
  
  Any comment by someone from hexbear.net when Ukraine is brought up.
- Tankies are like cockroaches
- Basically r/TheWayOfTheBern found their way over to Lemmy

A dude asking how to remove a cock ring on the lemmy.world support page
- So did he ever get it off
  
  Post was removed before we knew.
  
  I mean, I'm guessing he got it off before he realised it was stuck.

Beans. Lots and lots of beans.
- God I’m glad that’s over.
- Care to elaborate?
  
  It was a meme that started not long after the Reddit migration.
  Very very boring imho but some people clearly loved it.
- Is this a Magical Trevor thing?

The other day, I saw an A-list Hollywood actress going around Lemmy shitposting and promoting her latest movie on Lemmy.
She's obviously very talented and very hot and deserves to finally get an Oscar this year, but I would say it's pretty bizzare.
Also she's now the top mod of !android@lemmy.world for some reason.
- You know, come to think of it, how do we know you're the real Spider-man and not some imposter?
- Wait is this some sort of joke I'm not privy to? That's not actually Margot Robbie right? I can never tell what's real on the internet nowadays.
  
  Of course I am, why would Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie go on the Internet to lie to you? Because she thinks messing with a bunch of tech people on a niche forum is hilarious?
  That would be pretty bizarre.
- Self referencing meme accounts were something I hoped we'd be leaving behind on Reddit.
  
  Tell that to my publicists, please.
  They'll throw a fit if they find out about this.
- As a gay guy, Margot is pretty hot, but she's no Robert De Niro.
  
  Ahem. That's Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie to you.
  It's because of De Niro's 2 Oscars, right? 😭
  
  As a straight guy, Margot Robbie is what I think of when I need my dick to unwind
- is there proof that's her??
  
  Maybe I can buy a blue checkmark or something here.
  
  Considering the profile pic is ai generated, I highly doubt it

Leftists claiming Stalin was right wing.
- I'd take them over the ones that think Stalin was a good guy any day tbh
- It's an oversimplified anarchist talking point against authoritarianism and the state. It's noting the similarities between conservative talking points and auth-left socialist rhetoric. Basically, almost everything you criticize about capitalism can be applied to the state. And defenses for the state from auth-left socialists sounds an awful lot like right wing talking points in defense of capitalism/imperialism/insertotherismhere. Not to mention, the USSR was pretty socially conservative and that's a big mark against them imo. Liberatory politics should liberate people, after all
- Leftists who think, if I don't subscribe to their narrow, personal definition of leftism, I must be an epistemically evil conservative maniac with no middle ground whatsoever.
  
  what I hate is that when I say I'm not affiliated with a political party - people try to assume I must be a fucking centrist and therefor secretly conservative.
  Those people have some kind of mental deficiency that prevents them from thinking outside of what they already know. It's sad really. It's like their brain can't comprehend anything outside of what they were told to think.
- I can sort of see where they’re coming from, if they’re equating authoritarianism to conservatism and libertarianism to liberalism. But in reality, Stalin was a left wing authoritarian.
  
  If we look at the rhetoric, the soviet state was certainly left wing, but the main policy was state capitalism. To my mind, state capitalism is not a right wing (favors private control of industry) nor a left wing (favors worker control of industry) policy.
  This is definitely a case where pure left/right dichotomy doesn't serve to accurately describe the situation on the ground.
  
  What was left wing about stalin?
- Makes me wonder why we even still have wings. Nobody can seem to define them adequately.
  
  Horseshoe theory.
- They probably mistook right wing for auth
- Good ol' conflating right/left and authoritarian/libertarian.

The guy who designed the Debian logo showed up

Your Username
- Also usernames that are just emojis. That's just so odd. I'm not even sure how to think of their username in terms of pronouncing it.
  
  I pronounce it as "that guy with the emojis as a username"
  
  Interesting fact. The Unicode Consortium, which defines what is an emoji and how they are encoded in text, has an official list of descriptive short names for almost all 3k+ of then. So although they don't have pronunciations, they do have names.
  
  I mean, I knew a reddit user whose name wasca string of uppercase Is snd lowercase Ls.
  
  Praise be Eternity/Infinity for only displaying the actual username

lemmy.world blocking access to some of their biggest communities.
- I only know about piracy. What else did they block access for?
  
  They defederated from dbzero which I believe has other large 'communities'

A post touting rural and suburban North Korea as a capitalist-free, pedestrian friendly utopia full of happy people.

The CIA setting up a base of operations on here and strawmanning the left. You can even see it here already. Well, I suppose the CIA disrupting leftist spaces isn't all that bizarre.
- I honestly thought you were referring to the Jesus. The horrifying part is that it did not seem out of place with what he said.
  
  You haven't run across a post screaming about tankies or a strawman of leftists supposedly supporting authoritarian governments? Jesus must be your roommate under that rock in which you live.

This reply you’re reading right now being downvoted to oblivion using a supposedly unwanted karma system.
- Expressing our dislike is not the same as the karma system. My profile does not have a score that communities will use to discriminate against me and stifle my comments because I'm not popular enough. We should be able to express our dislike without having a giant thread of arguments over it.
  
  Exactly; the main point of karma for Reddit doesn’t apply here, and there are options in apps to just show total score.
  I use downvotes for two things: the person was, needlessly, a jackass, regardless of whether they’re right, or they’re wrong in such a way that I don’t have the energy/ability to sort that out (or just trolling). I’m sure others do the same for me, and that information should be available to others.
  
  How is this so? Everyone here has a karma score. I see mine, and everyone else’s when I look at their profile.
  
  Comments are still sorted on a post based on its points, hence it’s technically karmic. And would ya look at that, the seemingly-innocent-enough (to not expect fate to oblige) comment was no joke. It’s almost as if the originating source of visibly expressed opinion on a predictive basis works for me.
- Kids need karma to post or comment I guess. It's gamification of social media.
  I would have had points for each comments in a post, so it's possible to order based on that, but absolutely no karma tied to accounts.
  
  It’s still based on the karma system though, enough that many dub it one.