Update 2025-9-11: If you cannot tell this joke to a 5-year-old and they would understand, you should probably post it to the this community: !unclejokes@lemmy.world. Please message me if you think it could be different.
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Freaking THANK YOU.
The whole concept of a “dad joke” exists because dads realize they probably shouldn’t be telling sexualized jokes to small children and adjust their humor accordingly. They are inherently family friendly.
I’m baffled that the r. mods even let it be up for discussion.
Dunno. Always seemed straightforward to me. That community consists of millions of people and necessitated a broader view of the dadjoke definition than a single cultural or geographical view.
People who didn’t want to view NSFW jokes could simply not open them. In theory everyone could have the experience they wanted and work with the definition of dadjoke they wanted. I was always puzzled by the people who opened NSFW jokes just to be offended. Like don’t open them?
I guess the nice thing about Lemmy is you can have both “dadjokes” community views via different servers - and again the users can have the experience they desire as long as they choose to.
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But I can tell a 5-year-old any joke. I just shouldn’t. s/
That’s exactly what uncles are for.
Agreed! I always hated that Reddit mods took such a lax stance on this subject.
Same, honestly this might be the one thing that makes me choose Lemmy outright instead of visiting them both. I was SO tired of nsfw “dad” jokes.
I think the most annoying part about it was that the argument kept happening.
Dad jokes are jokes dad tell their kids. That sub just became another jokes.
Is uncle jokes gone already? I wanted to post one.
