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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 78 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I love being able to build my own site that works like a motherfucking website. This example is even simpler, but in general, unless I am actively adding products to a cart, your website shouldn’t do jack but display media. Tired of all this modern web shit that attacks you every time you open a page.

Looking at you, every news site in existence

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What’s so refreshing about motherfucking website is that I feel no need to activate ”reader mode” just to make the site bearable. Basic HTML is perfect as it is.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago

I built my own blog that way. All static generated, no JavaScript, no cookies, just enough CSS to get a nice dark mode look. Loads in 0.3 seconds on a modern connection, or around 10 seconds if you're on a shitty 2G connection. 370KB load, and about 270KB of that is a picture on a post that could be slimmed down if it used something more modern than jpeg compression.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Holy crap, motherfucking website is beast! I love how simple and straight forward it is. Reminds me of the 90s before ad placement took over the entire internet.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Good design is as little design as possible."
- some German motherfucker

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is my new favorite website, thank you

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

IMO, the original is the best one. I think all variations are just over designed. HTML default settings aren’t that bad.

Na, dark mode rules, the best o e was thebestmotherfuckingwebsite, it even had colors

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh my beloved motherfucking website author, I do in fact remember when websites were good, it was about 15 or 20 years ago.. Sob (maybe more depending on who you ask)

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 31 points 2 days ago (7 children)

In America cookies are called cookies but all other biscuits are also called cookies. In Australia lollipops are called lollies but all other kinds of sweets are also called lollies. I don’t really know where I’m going with this.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't either, but in America biscuits are savory or near flavorless, not sweet like cookies.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They need to get better biscuits then!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Tell me what you’re gonna do now.

[–] USSMojave@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What British people call biscuits are called cookies in America. American biscuits are more like what British people call scones

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

But a cookie is still a cookie - e.g. the one in the meme. That bit is universal.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Sweet is not inherently better than savory. Some of us think it's worse.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I do be wondering what a British person would call a Southern style US biscuit... Which is sweet (they're usually glazed with honey), but still not like a cookie.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think they are closest to a scone. There's a YouTube series I can't recall the name of that has British teens try American foods. One of the ones they did was biscuits and gravy. The Brits were mostly in shock at how good it was.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We’re pretty obsessed with gravy tbh. Never had a savoury scone but expect it must be a similar vibe to dumplings in a stew.

In Australia KFC automatically comes with a crappy little bread bun called a dinner roll and I don’t see the appeal.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

I've never met someone that actually wanted that little roll and I'm not sure I'd trust someone that did. Begrudgingly eat with apathy? Sure that's fine. But actively want it? Nah.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Not usually glazed with honey, but sometimes (and it's good too). Most are buttery flaky goodness you cover with sausage gravy or cut in half to sandwich a slice of cheddar.

The key when making them is not to crush your butter too much with your fork.

[–] JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

English as a language was seen as too easy. So we decided to mix it up.

Why would you ever be the global language of trade and commerce and the go between for multiple nations, whose entire structure is a hodgepodge of latin, Germanic, and mistranslated root structures and made up rules, if you didn't decide to mix it up from time to time and region to region?

Embrace the bastard language standard. This is the way.

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[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

uBlock origin > config > enable all annoyances list

Alternatively, there's this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ (works on android)

[–] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

GDPR says you shouldn't get a single cookie until you click the consent button. Try this: clear all cookies for a web site that has one of these banners, refresh the page and let it finish loading, and then see how many cookies you have for it before you consent to any.

[–] childOfMagenta@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Depends on the purpose of the cookie.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 2 days ago

*third-party

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

When you disable saving cookies in your browser, you'll get this all the time. YouTube is the worst offender, because it takes ages to load (not because of internet).

[–] CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 8 points 2 days ago

Meme is true, sure, but that cookie looks effin delicious

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Reject all.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t think you understand what a dark pattern is.

[–] weird@sub.wetshaving.social 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Isn't it when ui/ux uses deceptive practices to confuse the user into doing something?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes. It's when the UI leads YOU to do the thing you don't want. So unless the banner telling you that the site uses cookies is doing something to make you accept them when you don't want to accept them (such as by not having a button to not accept them visible) having cookies itself isn't a dark pattern.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is... exactly what most sites do with their consent banners.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most sites I've visited since they had to disclose their use of cookies have clearly visible "accept all" and "reject all" buttons, along with a "more information" button that often lets you configure what cookies you want and what you don't.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You must be visiting much more upstanding sites than I do! 😆

For those still curious, here's an article with some examples of dark patterns.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Given that cookies are just one of many ways you can be tracked on the web, isn't the who cookie banner thing kind of pointless to begin with? You can be identified by the fonts on your system, browser size, add-ons, and canvas fingerprint, WebGL fingerprint, screen resolution, time zone offset, hardware specs, what peripherals are plugged-in... It goes on and on.

We don't need tracking cookie banners, we need tracking everything banners.

[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

are they called biscuits for co.uk sites?

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Cookies are not inherently bad. How do you think identity and access management (logging into websites, etc) work?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Easy fix: Don't. I'll open KeepAssXC and manage my own access tyvm.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

Sure. But why does a website want to place a cookie when there is no IAM involved like news sites, blogs? For ad Tracking!

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