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[–] [email protected] 133 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The old post has 24 votes and this has over 400. Lemmy has grown exponentially since then.

Thanks spez for being such a big lemmy growth contributor.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dang we really have grown.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah, just like what Slavoj Zizek said about Stalinists: Joining into the applause themselves /s

In all seriousness, amazing work you are doing, one of the few projects I support financially, even with being on a subsistence-level income.

EDIT: You know what? I'll just leave this here for good measure:
https://join-lemmy.org/donate

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Try 1.2k votes.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Holy you've been here for four years?

[–] [email protected] 122 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yupp, blame my FOSS-fundamentalism and communism for being here early - but I still took a looooong break after first trying it out for a bit. Am elated it managed to grow a community since then.

[–] sturlabragason 26 points 5 months ago

Yeah FOSS fundemental communists, we’re the worst echo chamber.

Comrade.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lE4UXdJSJM4&pp=ygURTGludXggc3RhbGxtYW5pc20%3D

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

ayy, another OG

[–] Donkter 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I haven't been on Lemmy as long. How did Communism send you here?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The short answer: It made me interested in non-commercial alternatives. The fact that the main devs are communists in their own right (even though not necessarily of the same school of thought as myself, but close enough), certainly helped, too.

BTW, just in case you are concerned about that - they are commited to free software principles and the software they develop here is certainly politically agnostic, and they can't and won't keep anyone from hosting their own instances with their own focus or forking the software in the worst case.

[–] Donkter 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh I'm fine about communism I didn't realize the founders were communist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

People here describe them as tankies, which I take as meaning a person who thinks the Soviets did communism right

I prefer old commies. They wanted a local revolution and only liked the USSR in that they were the best source of money for funding such revolutions

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

There are dozens of us!

[–] Rolando 85 points 5 months ago (1 children)

100M view from normies or 10 upvotes from chads. You decide.

[–] Leg 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] JargonWagon 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] rockSlayer 51 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Still accurate, the amount of joy from a handful of upvotes beats thousands of updoots from the other place

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

100% right - I type while bathing in those sweet, sweet endorphins and taking in my brain thinking it's inside a valued person for a change

[–] FauxPseudo 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm constantly surprised at how many people upvote my Heathcliff without Heathcliff edits. It's the most derivative project I've ever done and that anyone pays attention is kinda amazing.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've have never seen tge original content, so from my point of view its original is yours and them someone add a cat (or a bird with a helmet? ) to it.

[–] FauxPseudo 15 points 5 months ago

I keep meaning to talk to Peter Gallagher about why he does that but I haven't had a chance. I have a feeling. He just thinks that it needs a cat. Though I do think the helmets add something.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

instead of upvotes, get 10 reply comments..

OMG ITS VIRAL!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

As 10 Lemmy upvotes are equal or greater than 100 Million YT views according to this metric, I am already deep into the billions of views, the whole population of the world has already viewed this several times

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, if I want dopamine hit from social media or forums, I prefer to get replies. I like discussions and see other people's opinions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Unless it's an argument in the reply.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Too many pixels, needs more compression

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's 4 years old. The pixels have aged since then.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Only the finest aged pixels can satisfy the sophisticated Lemming palate.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes I like a post so much I hit the upvote button twice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

throwing you a downcite for balance ❤️

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Every day I post on c/poetry, and every day I'm like hey, 15 people liked what I picked! Somehow a smaller scale means more.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've posted a few of my finished mini paintings and it was so nice when people interacted

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where did you post them? I need to follow this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There's only a few posts on my profile. The places aren't super active still

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Like others have touched on, this place seems like a reasonable discussion with some real people. It’s not INTERNET BULLSHIT FIREHOSE.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

You're hitting a Mastodon level of upvotes here!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I use Lemmy because it appeals to my wish to be alone, by myself, with no one here beside me ❤️ social media peace at last.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

We can all be alone by ourselves here together ❤️

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Alone together brother!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey bro, you mind if I watch you being alone?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

covers my eyes

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 20 points 5 months ago

Lemmy upvotes are more rare and therefore more valuable

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I struggle so hard to get even 5 boosts on mastodon. How do y'all do it 😂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well, I am not on Mastodon myself, because twitter-like social media isn't my cup of tea, but from what I heard, engagement there seems to happen much more on a following-hashtags level than following-users level, so maybe (ab)using hashtags more might do the trick.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

the meme should really swap lemmy and don's numbers, we all see triple digits on lenmy all the time

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can't name the last time I watched a YouTube video with 100M views. If it's that popular it's probably not something I'm interested in.

[–] BarbecueCowboy 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anything reaching those kind of numbers is probably a music video or some sort of nursery rhyme set to music. Youtube is mostly a music service.

Beyond that, there's a grammarly ad that hit over 500 million views, wonder how much they spent on that and a lot of random memes. It's real difficult to find the most viewed real non-music, non-kids, non-ad video. Probably still Charlie Bit my Finger (again). Except Mr Beast, not many others regularly topping 100M.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Actually upvotes on Reddit is much harder. Because you'll get burried in so much shit, nobody will see your post. The algorithm is so shit that only the most popular communities get shown first.

Lemmy is much better, people will read your post and it will actually go somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

that's like half of lemmy!

[–] NickwithaC 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is actually my most active platform. Nowhere has the self selection of joining communities, which means I'm just posting to my profile and no one sees it. With Lemmy (and Reddit before it) every post I make gets seen by people who want to see it and upvote/comment on it.

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