• Rose56@lemmy.caEnglish
    114·
    1 day 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
      6·
      1 day 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
        21·
        1 day 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·
      1 day 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·
        1 day 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
          4·
          1 day 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.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    53·
    2 days ago

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

  • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 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
      5·
      1 day 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
        3·
        19 hours 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·
          7 hours 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.

  • hotdogcharmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 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

    • Okapi@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      517·
      2 days ago

      If female nipples are still considered obscene, the same rules should apply to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Okapi@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          392·
          3 days ago

          It’s rather meant to show the absurdity of censoring female nipples (in a small sidenote)

          • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
            591·
            3 days ago

            I would propose censoring female nipples with male nipples then. Since the latter need not be censored.

          • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            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.

      • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        101·
        3 days ago

        Yeah, always better if all equally lose, instead of letting others win. Our society is doomed with a mindset like this.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
            7·
            2 days ago

            It’s because the backslash is a special character called an “escape” character. The same way you make italics by putting *asterisks* around something, you can use backslashes to tell the system to ignore other special characters and use them literally. In this case, the underscore, which if you had no backslash would cause the face to be italic, becomes “escaped” by the backslash so we see the underscores as normal. But then you don’t see the backslash.

            So you need to “escape” the backslash itself. Put two backslashes, and you’ll see one. ¯\(ツ)/¯ ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

            But then you’re no longer escaping the underscores. So now you’ve got one backslash, but the face is italic and you don’t see any underscores.

            So instead, as a final step, add a third backslash. The first backslash escapes the second one, so we see the second one. Then the third escapes the underscore, so we see the underscore. (For a bit of extra security, you can optionally also escape the second underscore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

            ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    2 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·
      2 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·
        2 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.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    571·
    3 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·
      2 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
      181·
      3 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
      5·
      2 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
      5·
      2 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.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    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