Basically a crowdsourced instance where memes are kept
But not just a pile of hopeful clip-art which mostly doesn’t apply anywhere specific, not just a collection of tired arbitrary animated gifs from the past 10 years or so
This would be a curated, dynamic and above all meaningful set of memes that reflect the zite-guys (oh those guys, the zite guys, they’re always on top of things, it’s as if they’re the spirit of the age)
technically, the animated gif is actually a good medium (scarred by the amount of prehistoric pixels animated gifs extant from the days of the last century)
Even the two-frame; three-frame; four-frame memes consisting of static images with burned-in text are valid stories
But we have other formats now, a simple two, three, or four step sequence of still images with dynamic overlaid SVG text and arrows and stuff could work as a new meme format (wrapped as SVG)
This could need and complement the MFM markup that Calckey promotes
But anyway, whatever the details, the idea that there’s a place to go to to refer to current memes and pull them from there would mean that individual instances don’t have to have the load to store the (by then) multiple copies of it as it spreads, it’s all canonical
The curated side of it could mean that that’s where the topicality, the currency, the finger on the button is – that’s where the pulse of the thinking of the fediverse is – that pile of memes in one place
Dangerous idea: it could also be curated in terms of thought direction, to weed out ‘poisonous’ or ‘bad’ thinking, to weed out unhelpful memes from the perspective of human potential or achievement or integrity, and promote good helpful (happy?) thinking to build on – ie weighted more to the positive than evil