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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 94 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think the slowness is partly by design.

Their goal is to make everything available, not necessarily available quickly; people going to an archive are generally looking for something in particular so a bit of latency doesn't really affect the majority of valid use cases. They're not hosting a CDN and they want to discourage people from treating it as such. It also puts off scrapers as I imagine the rate at which you could scrape is slower than the rate at which content is added to the archive

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

I know. I'm not saying I need it any faster and most people in fact don't, but as they have no incentive to widen their bandwidth, we can expect outages if they ever make some lawless group angry.