• grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    51·
    4 days ago

    Are Atlas’ nips blurred? C’mon let me see the skittles don’t be g greedy

  • hotdogcharmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    4 days ago

    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

  • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    4 days ago

    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.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      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.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        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.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          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.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    571·
    4 days ago

    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.zoneEnglish
      38·
      4 days ago

      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.spaceEnglish
      161·
      4 days ago

      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.

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      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.caEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      On reddit there were powermods, who manipulate hundreds of subs by removing posts that made good karma and then reposting them themselves and removing any kind of unwanted discussion (backed by the admins).

      On the fediverse, we have power users that seem to post a lot, but it’s mostly because nobody else wants to post for some reason (not counting news comms that use bots or scripted users to automatically post).
      Sometimes a mod powertrips or we learn that someone is trying to manipulate a comm, so usually the instance owners just kick then out… And if it turns out they are backed by the owner, then people call it out and usually the instance gets defederated.

      There are consequences in the fediverse, so mods/owners are usually more careful about it and the power posters don’t go around removing posts to pass then as their own to farm karma.

  • Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
    104·
    3 days ago

    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.xyzEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      People should just block communities they don’t care about instead of downvoting posts from those communities in the all feed.

      • Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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.

    • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • hazel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          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.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        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.

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            4 days ago

            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.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    34·
    4 days ago

    It’s damn hard to get other people to post. Every so often I like to go around and find smaller communities to share content to.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        13·
        4 days ago

        Nice! Commenting is the hardest part and the most vital to community.

        I’m nearing half that on this 3 month old account, I’d hate to think what my total has been over all instances these past 2 years.

        • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          4 days ago

          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.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          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.

      • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        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.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          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.

          Monitors

        • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          4 days ago

          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 (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4·
            4 days ago

            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

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    4 days ago

    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.mlEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      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!

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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.