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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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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm a software developer. For me, "alpha" means somethings that's still buggy, unfinished and unfit for wide availability.

[–] JATtho@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I'm a hobby software developer and a fan of reading a lot of about physics. To me, "alpha" means an highly unstable configuation with massive amount of over optimistic excitement and just one wrong nudge will have catastrohic emmission of high energy photons and sounds. But it all decays away eventually and reaches stable state. xD

[–] some_guy 2 points 12 hours ago

Wrong. Beta means that. Alpha means "set everything on fire."

I'm not saying that you're wrong. I'm saying we have different definitions. Cheers!

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'm a wannabe software developer. to me, alpha is when you're bored of using latin letters

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 11 points 20 hours ago

I'm a physicist. To me, alpha is highly dangerous but is incapable of penetrating the human body. Seems to check out