Sadly, a lot of people genuinely believe this. That all nipples should be censored/covered up.
Look up some discussions about female toplessness online. Unless you are in a queer/very progressive space, a very large number of people would support banning men from being topless too. Most common argument I've found wasn't equality but rather some people being ugly and not wanting to see them.
Kinda funny; here on Lemmy they're appreciated, while on Reddit we hated "power users" with a passion.
That said, I really do feel like the posters on Lemmy are trying their very best to provide interesting content, and they do this by fostering their chosen communities by hand. I'm a fan.
Here on Lemmy we know there's no financial incentive, no perverse conflict of interests - just people who cared enough to build the infrastructure, maintain it, and provide service for others.
Yeah I had a realization that a lot of the things that used to bother me on reddit don't worry me as much here. Something is fundamentally working better but I'm not sure what it is yet.
I wouldn't say we appreciate all of them. Just depends on how they do it. If you post frequently that's great. If you dump a dozen posts in under an hour on the other hand I think you're an asshole. All it does is drown out communities. Leaves them dead.
Thank my lucky tuppence that those smashing knockers are pixelated or I would've spaffed right all over bloody Trafalgar Square and what a kerfuffle that would have been
One of the reasons I do it is because it's fun actually debating people and exchanging ideas. That simply wasn't even possible anymore on Reddit in the last four years or so.
I love the heck out of my regular commenters. I might be the foundation of a community, but without the people commenting, it's still an empty house. It needs the people there having fun to be a place that will keep attracting people. I've always put at least as much effort into making people that do comment feel appreciated for doing so, and I think that's why I've found relative success on a very niche topic, as I focus on educational content rather than the major focus on more general jokes that a wider audience can more easily enjoy.
It's tough because users here naturally use Linux more often which is incompatible with league. I stopped playing this season since I'm on Linux now, but haven't really looked back.
I was trying to run Windows for personal stuff and Ubuntu for work, but Ubuntu doesn't like my monitors. X11 has issues with resolutions and detecting my new 2k monitor. Wayland doesn't let me log in at all.
I haven't bothered to troubleshoot. So now I'm just in Windows. Maybe I should try a different distro.
Who would've thought ripping out everything that made the game unique and interesting in favor of an easier more casual game would be a bad long term decision for a competitive game 🤣
This, but also most of the casual players seems to have left.
We tried to play a couple of games back with my friends, every team we faced was much more skilled than us, and the match making couldn't find anyone that was our level
I'm glad to see some of you have really gotten impassioned about them that you come check them out every day. I've learned so much along with you guys doing this, and I has a lot of fun now working with animals from inspiring myself to do it bringing you all these photos and facts every day.
I get so overjoyed when you guys are able to post sightings of your own, and Lady Butterfly's Medieval owls the last couple weeks have been a nice addition as well.
You do a lot of great work as a poster and as a facilitator with getting the word out on a lot of things. You stepping up to do this macro level community building I think has really bolstered a lot of Fedi content, and I feel that's crucial to all of us having continued success as a platform.
Of course! Your work as a whole for Lemmy aside, you've been a great help to me personally many times when I get frustrated at things here, so my success is at least partially attributed to your support to me and my fellow posters.
I wonder if the internet culture of sharing has died off somewhat. Old guy here. Are people are so used to consuming they forget about sharing? Or maybe it's just the type of person who uses the internet today is inherently more consumer then early adopters?
In my day a big appeal of the internet was to share things. But now it is to consume things.
When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.
Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with "I know you are but what am I" or "that's what your mom told me last night", and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.
It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.
A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it's a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).
That is a fantastic article, thank you. I don't know if there is a way around the ennui engine, not without massive systemic changes; seems like it's part of human nature. It seems pretty rational too, from an animal-brain point of view ... to take a sure win right now instead of a maybe-win later.
It's unfortunate that this feeds so many people's anger cycle. I wonder if that's cultural.
Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists.
That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don't support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience.
So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.
I've been trying to keep !nebula@lemmy.world alive but it only has 356 members — if you use nebula or you watch any YouTubers like jet lag: the game, Todd in the shadows, any number of Breadtubers, it would be great to have more posters over there! You don't necessarily need the streaming service since most of the content goes on YouTube as well.
!taskmaster@feddit.uk is small as well but should hopefully be a bit busier with the new series starting tonight, it also has a user pretty much single handedly keeping it alive with posts from the official YouTube channel but it's still a bit quiet for comments.
Well, that does it. I'm starting an indie music community.
We already sort of have a couple but most of what's on there is people posting songs and not getting any comments. I'll try to get that oldschool fanclub vibe going. That deep cut bootleg vibe.
EDIT: Done it. And now for a lifetime of posting stuff and hoping someone notices lol
Might I invite everyone to use the Scaled sorting algorithm to see more of what the small communities have to offer! To avoid the firehose, you can default your feed to Subscribed and then liberally sub to the communities you like or might like. Then once a day or so switch to All+Scaled or All+Top Day to see what you might have missed and perhaps make some new community subs.
I never got into the fediverse when I first made this account because everything seemed to be from a few communities. Used Scaled this time and it's so much better!
I've been using it as default ever since its introduction along with a large subscribed list and it's been great. All+Scaled for discovery of new community discovery, All+Top Day for checking on what Lemmy was on about today.
You can set whatever sort and feed defaults you like so that you don't have to set it every time you visit.
I used to be critical of this but I've come around because:
Creating memes takes ideas/time.
My ideas are wacky and untested.
So I might spend 20-60 minutes making something only for people to hate it. (This happened a lot more often in the beginning because I was bad and my ideas took a lot of photo editing.) I still make memes when I think the idea is worth it. Of course, I could just pander to what I think people want to hear, but I make memes for more organic reasons than that.
I mainly wish people would add a little something if they did that. Some kind of context, or a particular bit of the articles they share that makes it significant to them, etc. Basically anything that would make it seem like a human posted and not a repost bot.
I pull a lot of my content from Facebook since most sources are photography hobbyists and charities, which just use that as a free quick and easy platform to reach the most eyes so they can focus on making content. But I try to contextualize what is going on in photos, can provide background to the species or the procedure being done, and answer any questions about things, which I feel is a good value add service by me sharing it here.
I will post things from my personal work too, but the animal thing isn't my day job, so other than my weekly clinic shift or vacations, there's only so many opportunities I get to shoot my own owl photos! 😜 But I still get to bring a lot of daily joy to people that won't touch those other platforms, and I add a lot of research and experience they wouldn't get by going to the original source.
There is still use being a straight content curator, but I think it's just really going the extra mile by adding something to it yourself that can enhance it.
I am guilty of this, mostly because if I have to repost memes from somewhere, I'd rather it be somewhere off the fediverse so people don't see double. It would be hard work to only post oc, and my oc isn't always received as well as reposts. I personally aim for there to be regular posts by someone in the communities I post in, and collecting reposts allows me to build a backlog I could never build with oc alone.
Besides, I don't believe in meme ownership unless it took a significant amount of artistic talent to create. Since that includes none of my posts, I do onto others as I want done onto me.
Most of us (posters, commenters, voters and lurkers) know why we're here and why we need to do the work. We've been on so many platforms and gotten shafted. Many of us now know why and what needs to be done to avoid that for the long haul.
Do tell us!(Including me, when possible)
But no guys, keep posting USA political news, political memes, what Trump said and downvote any athletic, music and ASMR post just because it's not about USA or political, and then complain how niche communities are dead.
Don't forget to downvote this comment too, it's not political.
Are people really suppressing posts on niche communities like this? I almost exclusively sort by post age or engagement rather than votes, and I'm on an instance that doesn't support downvoting. Downvoting isn't something I've thought about since my Reddit days.
Always speaking from my point of view and what I have seen during my time on Lemmy.
I have see many posts about niche communities being dead, and I seen lots of posts getting downvoted right away, including my posts.
Users wanted to a change from Reddit, yet they replacate it.
Downvotes are almost never used correctly. People think if something isn't for them, it deserves a downvote. An inevitable bit of Reddit culture that comes with that user base jumping ship. Nonetheless, it could only cause the death of a community if the people in that community don't choose to spend time there.
When I browse my subscriptions, it doesn't matter if the posts I want to see score too low on the vote scale to be discoverable in All. I'm going to see them, because they're what I came to see. I went looking for those communities, and curated my own feed. I think if more people went looking for stuff they want to see instead of letting their client show them whatever is doing well on votes, the votes wouldn't matter nearly as much.
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zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 133 pts · 347d
Who censored the beautiful nipnips of poor
SisyphusAtlas?Okapi@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 347d
If female nipples are still considered obscene, the same rules should apply to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 76 pts · 347d
I feel like the argument "If some people are wronged, everyone should be wronged!" has some flaws.
Okapi@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 347d
It's rather meant to show the absurdity of censoring female nipples (in a small sidenote)
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 347d
I would propose censoring female nipples with male nipples then. Since the latter need not be censored.
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 347d
This is perfect
lena@gregtech.eu · 3 pts · 345d
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 347d
Sadly, a lot of people genuinely believe this. That all nipples should be censored/covered up.
Look up some discussions about female toplessness online. Unless you are in a queer/very progressive space, a very large number of people would support banning men from being topless too. Most common argument I've found wasn't equality but rather some people being ugly and not wanting to see them.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 347d
In that case, just ban ugly people entirely, not only their nipples.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 347d
Yeah, always better if all equally lose, instead of letting others win. Our society is doomed with a mindset like this.
Sergio@piefed.social · 4 pts · 347d
You missed a great opportunity for an "Atlas shrugged" quip.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 347d
Isn't that Atlas?
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 347d
You’re right.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 347d
don’t want to scare the horses
Speiser0@feddit.org · 5 pts · 347d
The one who was seeking for your engagement.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 347d
No worries: this is Atlas. S*syphus is not censored
RaccoonBall@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 347d
The nipples are censored. Does this imply they're girlboobs?
stickly@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 347d
I had a great Sissy-phus joke lined up until I realized that's probably Atlas
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 347d
Missed opportunity with an At-lass pun
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org · 10 pts · 347d
insert right wing ramble about the left making everything trans
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 347d
Kinda funny; here on Lemmy they're appreciated, while on Reddit we hated "power users" with a passion.
That said, I really do feel like the posters on Lemmy are trying their very best to provide interesting content, and they do this by fostering their chosen communities by hand. I'm a fan.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 347d
Here on Lemmy we know there's no financial incentive, no perverse conflict of interests - just people who cared enough to build the infrastructure, maintain it, and provide service for others.
Feels nice for sure.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space · 18 pts · 347d
Yeah I had a realization that a lot of the things that used to bother me on reddit don't worry me as much here. Something is fundamentally working better but I'm not sure what it is yet.
traceur201@piefed.social · 6 pts · 347d
$$$
njm1314@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
I wouldn't say we appreciate all of them. Just depends on how they do it. If you post frequently that's great. If you dump a dozen posts in under an hour on the other hand I think you're an asshole. All it does is drown out communities. Leaves them dead.
Ofiuco@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 347d
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 53 pts · 347d
Are Atlas' nips blurred? C'mon let me see the skittles don't be g greedy
livejamie@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 346d
Hips and nips, otherwise I'm not eating.
OopsOverbombing@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 346d
Gotta make it sexy!
ickplant@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 347d
4.8K posts in 2 years… I’m doing my part!
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 347d
You really are, i love your posts thank you for continually making my day a little brighter
ickplant@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 347d
Thank you! I love knowing that it brightens your day, that’s exactly why I do it.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 347d
You are an animal content machine! If I see an animal that I didn't post, I usually expect to see your name under it. 😄
ickplant@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
Thanks! I really try, and I love that Lemmy appreciates all the cuteness.
Addv4@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
Truly. When I see a cute animal pic, I'm surprised if you haven't posted it. Thanks for your work, it makes Lemmy a lot more enjoyable!
ickplant@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
Aww, thanks! I truly enjoy posting animal pics, and it’s nice to know it brings joy to others.
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 346d
Loving your posts ickplant
ickplant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 346d
Thank you!
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 347d
Thanks for posting!
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 347d
Me too, thanks, but I wouldn't call the shitpost/meme communities I post to small
ickplant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 347d
I say that still counts. Most of mine are in tiny animal communities, and I really enjoy curating animal pics. It’s become a hobby for sure.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
I recognized you instantly
Cheers!
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 347d
Thank my lucky tuppence that those smashing knockers are pixelated or I would've spaffed right all over bloody Trafalgar Square and what a kerfuffle that would have been
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 33 pts · 347d
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 347d
3K+ comments in my two years on Lemmy. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 13 pts · 347d
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
One of the reasons I do it is because it's fun actually debating people and exchanging ideas. That simply wasn't even possible anymore on Reddit in the last four years or so.
lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 347d
wait... is it? it's all i do.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 6 pts · 347d
tburkhol@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d
It's even easier to lurk and just look at the funny memes. A post with no comments gives the poster no encouragement or feedback.
lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 347d
yeah but replies are seen by few, posts by many, so you need to think much more about relevancy.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 347d
In that case, thank you for your service!
anon6789@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
I love the heck out of my regular commenters. I might be the foundation of a community, but without the people commenting, it's still an empty house. It needs the people there having fun to be a place that will keep attracting people. I've always put at least as much effort into making people that do comment feel appreciated for doing so, and I think that's why I've found relative success on a very niche topic, as I focus on educational content rather than the major focus on more general jokes that a wider audience can more easily enjoy.
Blaze@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 347d
What happened to the potential consolidation between !world@quokk.au and !globalnews@lemmy.zip?
Serinus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Reddit still has an absolute stranglehold on !leagueoflegends@lemmy.world
Maybe I should take this opportunity to move the community over to piefed.
Sl00k@programming.dev · 7 pts · 347d
It's tough because users here naturally use Linux more often which is incompatible with league. I stopped playing this season since I'm on Linux now, but haven't really looked back.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
That's a damn good point I hadn't considered.
I was trying to run Windows for personal stuff and Ubuntu for work, but Ubuntu doesn't like my monitors. X11 has issues with resolutions and detecting my new 2k monitor. Wayland doesn't let me log in at all.
I haven't bothered to troubleshoot. So now I'm just in Windows. Maybe I should try a different distro.
Blaze@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 347d
Sorry to hear. If Ubuntu doesn't work for you, you're probably out of luck, it's one with the best support.
Maybe Mint could be worth a try if you have time?
Serinus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 346d
https://lemmy.world/post/35790913 maybe. Sounds like a similar issue.
Blaze@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 347d
The game seems much less active nowadays, to be honest.
https://playercounter.com/league-of-legends/
Sl00k@programming.dev · 4 pts · 347d
Who would've thought ripping out everything that made the game unique and interesting in favor of an easier more casual game would be a bad long term decision for a competitive game 🤣
Blaze@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 347d
This, but also most of the casual players seems to have left.
We tried to play a couple of games back with my friends, every team we faced was much more skilled than us, and the match making couldn't find anyone that was our level
Pandantic@midwest.social · 31 pts · 347d
Shout out to anon[some numbers] over at Supurbowl, literally bringing cute owls to everyone alone!
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 13 pts · 347d
That would be anon6789@lemmy.world and seconded!
anon6789@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 347d
That's meeeeeee! I always feel unworthy when you guys mention me, but I love that you have a fun time talking about grumpy birds with me.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 8 pts · 347d
You're not unworthy, you fill our days with owls and we learn things everyday cause of you!
anon6789@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
I'm glad to see some of you have really gotten impassioned about them that you come check them out every day. I've learned so much along with you guys doing this, and I has a lot of fun now working with animals from inspiring myself to do it bringing you all these photos and facts every day.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 6 pts · 347d
Aw I'm glad to hear that!
anon6789@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d
It's no exaggeration - I look forward to seeing the comments from you guys as much as you look forward to seeing the photos I share! ❤️
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 6 pts · 347d
❤️
anon6789@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d
I get so overjoyed when you guys are able to post sightings of your own, and Lady Butterfly's Medieval owls the last couple weeks have been a nice addition as well.
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 347d
That Lady Butterfly
sad_detective_man@leminal.space · 17 pts · 347d
Also everything she posts is nice.
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 346d
Thanks sad detective, I like bringing wholesome cheer to people's lives
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 346d
We appreciate you 😊
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 346d
I live for comments like this so thank you 😊
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 346d
And I comment for lives like that so you are welcome 🤗
Sunshine@piefed.ca · 28 pts · 347d
Why is everyone looking at me!
lime@feddit.nu · 10 pts · 347d
👁️
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 346d
Thank you for your service:-)
Oh look, now we are talking with you too ☺️
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 346d
🤗
Vegeta@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 346d
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 347d
Why did they censor Sisyphus's nipples
MoonMoon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
Coz they've been slapped onto Atlas
Valmond@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 346d
Did you blur out his titties or what?
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 345d
Them Titan titties are notoriously seductive. Can't have the horses sppoked.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 345d
atlas titan titties.
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol · 22 pts · 347d
Remember FlyingSquid?
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 346d
Paging @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world !
lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 347d
Honestly, I try not to.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 346d
Why? Did they do something bad?
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol · 2 pts · 346d
Argued with tankies
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Yeah same, Jesus Christ.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 347d
What happened to Flying Squid?
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
A horrible fate. He went to England.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 346d
Oh shit I totally forgot about him
Blaze@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 347d
!fedigrow@lemmy.zip for people interested to see how it is to grow a community, week after week
anon6789@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 347d
You do a lot of great work as a poster and as a facilitator with getting the word out on a lot of things. You stepping up to do this macro level community building I think has really bolstered a lot of Fedi content, and I feel that's crucial to all of us having continued success as a platform.
Blaze@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 347d
Thank you for your kind words, and thank you for your continuous work on !superbowl@lemmy.world
anon6789@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
Of course! Your work as a whole for Lemmy aside, you've been a great help to me personally many times when I get frustrated at things here, so my success is at least partially attributed to your support to me and my fellow posters.
n0respect@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 346d
I wonder if the internet culture of sharing has died off somewhat. Old guy here. Are people are so used to consuming they forget about sharing? Or maybe it's just the type of person who uses the internet today is inherently more consumer then early adopters?
In my day a big appeal of the internet was to share things. But now it is to consume things.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 7 pts · 346d
When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.
Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with "I know you are but what am I" or "that's what your mom told me last night", and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.
It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.
A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it's a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).
n0respect@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
That is a fantastic article, thank you. I don't know if there is a way around the ennui engine, not without massive systemic changes; seems like it's part of human nature. It seems pretty rational too, from an animal-brain point of view ... to take a sure win right now instead of a maybe-win later.
It's unfortunate that this feeds so many people's anger cycle. I wonder if that's cultural.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 345d
Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists.
That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don't support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience.
So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.
ctry21@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 347d
I've been trying to keep !nebula@lemmy.world alive but it only has 356 members — if you use nebula or you watch any YouTubers like jet lag: the game, Todd in the shadows, any number of Breadtubers, it would be great to have more posters over there! You don't necessarily need the streaming service since most of the content goes on YouTube as well.
!taskmaster@feddit.uk is small as well but should hopefully be a bit busier with the new series starting tonight, it also has a user pretty much single handedly keeping it alive with posts from the official YouTube channel but it's still a bit quiet for comments.
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 347d
omg I had no idea! I was doing that early on but I got tired of it and stopped checking. Looking forward to the new Jet Lag season!
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 347d
Same! Three teams of two will be an interesting change.
I didn't know there was a Lemmy community for nebula.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 347d
Well, that does it. I'm starting an indie music community.
We already sort of have a couple but most of what's on there is people posting songs and not getting any comments. I'll try to get that oldschool fanclub vibe going. That deep cut bootleg vibe.
EDIT: Done it. And now for a lifetime of posting stuff and hoping someone notices lol
Skavau@piefed.social · 8 pts · 347d
You should advertise it on newcommunities@lemmy.world and communitypromo@lemmy.ca
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
Thank you! That's super helpful! I will as soon as I make a few posts! :)
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 346d
Might I invite everyone to use the Scaled sorting algorithm to see more of what the small communities have to offer! To avoid the firehose, you can default your feed to Subscribed and then liberally sub to the communities you like or might like. Then once a day or so switch to All+Scaled or All+Top Day to see what you might have missed and perhaps make some new community subs.
spacemint_rhino@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 346d
I never got into the fediverse when I first made this account because everything seemed to be from a few communities. Used Scaled this time and it's so much better!
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 346d
I've been using it as default ever since its introduction along with a large subscribed list and it's been great. All+Scaled for discovery of new community discovery, All+Top Day for checking on what Lemmy was on about today.
You can set whatever sort and feed defaults you like so that you don't have to set it every time you visit.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 12 pts · 347d
me propping up the comment section
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 347d
o7
teft@piefed.social · 9 pts · 347d
A lot of those types are just reposting reddit’s top content. Or copying from facebook.
Sergio@piefed.social · 13 pts · 347d
on the bright side, now I don't have to look at reddit or facebook.
besides, that's why I like fedimemes, bc it's usually fediverse-original.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 347d
I used to be critical of this but I've come around because:
So I might spend 20-60 minutes making something only for people to hate it. (This happened a lot more often in the beginning because I was bad and my ideas took a lot of photo editing.) I still make memes when I think the idea is worth it. Of course, I could just pander to what I think people want to hear, but I make memes for more organic reasons than that.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 347d
I mainly wish people would add a little something if they did that. Some kind of context, or a particular bit of the articles they share that makes it significant to them, etc. Basically anything that would make it seem like a human posted and not a repost bot.
I pull a lot of my content from Facebook since most sources are photography hobbyists and charities, which just use that as a free quick and easy platform to reach the most eyes so they can focus on making content. But I try to contextualize what is going on in photos, can provide background to the species or the procedure being done, and answer any questions about things, which I feel is a good value add service by me sharing it here.
I will post things from my personal work too, but the animal thing isn't my day job, so other than my weekly clinic shift or vacations, there's only so many opportunities I get to shoot my own owl photos! 😜 But I still get to bring a lot of daily joy to people that won't touch those other platforms, and I add a lot of research and experience they wouldn't get by going to the original source.
There is still use being a straight content curator, but I think it's just really going the extra mile by adding something to it yourself that can enhance it.
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 345d
I am guilty of this, mostly because if I have to repost memes from somewhere, I'd rather it be somewhere off the fediverse so people don't see double. It would be hard work to only post oc, and my oc isn't always received as well as reposts. I personally aim for there to be regular posts by someone in the communities I post in, and collecting reposts allows me to build a backlog I could never build with oc alone.
Besides, I don't believe in meme ownership unless it took a significant amount of artistic talent to create. Since that includes none of my posts, I do onto others as I want done onto me.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 9 pts · 347d
Please help those people out if you enjoy the communities!!
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 346d
thank you @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 🫡
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 346d
It is an honour and a privilege 🫡
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 346d
Such a wholesome thread. 🥰
Most of us (posters, commenters, voters and lurkers) know why we're here and why we need to do the work. We've been on so many platforms and gotten shafted. Many of us now know why and what needs to be done to avoid that for the long haul.
Lurkers, step up your voting duties!
roserose56@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 346d
Do tell us!(Including me, when possible) But no guys, keep posting USA political news, political memes, what Trump said and downvote any athletic, music and ASMR post just because it's not about USA or political, and then complain how niche communities are dead.
Don't forget to downvote this comment too, it's not political.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 346d
People should just block communities they don't care about instead of downvoting posts from those communities in the all feed.
roserose56@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 346d
That's a good example! I have done so with almost all USA political communities, and now when I browser all I discover more stuff.
hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 346d
Are people really suppressing posts on niche communities like this? I almost exclusively sort by post age or engagement rather than votes, and I'm on an instance that doesn't support downvoting. Downvoting isn't something I've thought about since my Reddit days.
roserose56@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 346d
Always speaking from my point of view and what I have seen during my time on Lemmy. I have see many posts about niche communities being dead, and I seen lots of posts getting downvoted right away, including my posts. Users wanted to a change from Reddit, yet they replacate it.
hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 346d
Downvotes are almost never used correctly. People think if something isn't for them, it deserves a downvote. An inevitable bit of Reddit culture that comes with that user base jumping ship. Nonetheless, it could only cause the death of a community if the people in that community don't choose to spend time there.
When I browse my subscriptions, it doesn't matter if the posts I want to see score too low on the vote scale to be discoverable in All. I'm going to see them, because they're what I came to see. I went looking for those communities, and curated my own feed. I think if more people went looking for stuff they want to see instead of letting their client show them whatever is doing well on votes, the votes wouldn't matter nearly as much.
Skavau@piefed.social · 6 pts · 347d
Even larger communities are held up by 1 or 2 posters
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 347d
I had some momentum before lemm.ee shut down. I consider my comms a success when someone else starts posting.
!animearmor@lemmy.zip
!mecha@lemmy.zip
You should be able to guess what kind of comms they are, lol.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 6 pts · 347d
Teknevra keeping furry_memes alive
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 346d
My posts have almost exclusively become pics of my horse lmao. But I do try to make the posts regular to do my part.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 4 pts · 347d
[insert picture of a microwave here]
hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 346d
@TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 346d
👁️👁️
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 346d
i noticed since ee. fell there has been less content of certain communities.
mrodri89@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 347d
alyth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
omniman@anarchist.nexus · -7 pts · 347d
Literally me , who agree ? Upvote this comment for je+sus to give you blessings