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v4ld1z ,
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Holy you've been hear for four years?

Wxnzxn OP ,
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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 ,

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

Comrade.

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

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

ayy, another OG

Donkter ,

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

Wxnzxn OP ,
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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 ,

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

psud ,

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

DrWeevilJammer ,
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There are dozens of us!

swab148 ,
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Too many pixels, needs more compression

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

sangriaferret ,

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

botorfj ,
@botorfj@lemdro.id avatar

should've stored it in the freezer

rockSlayer ,

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

Wxnzxn OP ,
@Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml avatar

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

Semi_Hemi_Demigod ,
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Lemmy upvotes are more rare and therefore more valuable

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

Rolando ,

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

Leg ,

Here's an upvote.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/22702323-cd70-4fbe-8a57-3ec4d5585a17.png

JargonWagon ,

Chintastic!

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com%2Ff%2F464ceee1-6530-4b2d-8516-053250c83bfb%2Fd691mdk-4a09f2ee-326f-43a7-8616-807a9eaf86bb.jpg%3Ftoken%3DeyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzQ2NGNlZWUxLTY1MzAtNGIyZC04NTE2LTA1MzI1MGM4M2JmYlwvZDY5MW1kay00YTA5ZjJlZS0zMjZmLTQzYTctODYxNi04MDdhOWVhZjg2YmIuanBnIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.Z3epkSZgB2icOf7rSDvP4nOECL7MXRJnwmYyawSpAWs&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=99395d90421ac2e77b2a3fa82e2f9af3ca30c9eb980d55442f2f773b10876824&ipo=images

hakunawazo ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8014eca2-e59e-44ba-8f00-c02f9c160b2b.jpeg

thisbenzingring ,

instead of upvotes, get 10 reply comments..

OMG ITS VIRAL!

Wxnzxn OP ,
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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 ,

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.

YerbaYerba ,

Unless it's an argument in the reply.

psud ,

They're fun when you're winning, the votes tell who's winning

TankovayaDiviziya , (edited )

Depends on what you mean by "winning". Some up votes are agreement that the comment makes the most sense; while others are because of hive mind mentality.

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Each upvote on lemmy is handcrafted by an actual human

LostXOR ,

As an actual human, can confirm I use my human fingertips to press the upvote button on the posts and comments I enjoy.

Hupf ,

https://xkcd.com/1530/

scroll_responsibly ,
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100% USDA certified organic, free range, artisanally handcrafted upvotes. Made with love.

DrWeevilJammer ,
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Artisanal upvotes

PrettyFlyForAFatGuy ,

whittled from a chunk of cedar

peanuts4life ,
@peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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.

Wxnzxn OP ,
@Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml avatar

We can all be alone by ourselves here together ❤️

Denvil ,

Alone together brother!

rbn ,

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

peanuts4life ,
@peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

covers my eyes

Liz ,

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 ,

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.

odium , (edited )

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.

dessalines ,
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Dang we really have grown.

https://c.tenor.com/yR40UqyYccoAAAAC/tenor.gif

Wxnzxn OP ,
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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

nieceandtows ,

Try 1.2k votes.

nicknonya ,
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that's like half of lemmy!

Pickle_Jr ,

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

Wxnzxn OP ,
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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.

taanegl ,
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Use the ever loving fuck out of hashtags.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

Try Bluesky instead, it's more active as microblogs go.

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

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

Wxnzxn OP ,
@Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml avatar

Nowadays, definitely. 4 years ago, when this was originally posted? Back when I first engaged a little bit here before hibernating until the big exodus, my most engaged post had like 30-something upvotes.

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

whoa! you were here before the Beanening, before the Three Day Labor of the Poopless One?

poke ,

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

match ,
@match@pawb.social avatar

throwing you a downcite for balance ❤️

BonesOfTheMoon ,

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.

Fogle ,

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

BonesOfTheMoon ,

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

Fogle ,

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

BonesOfTheMoon ,

I'll join and make it sparkle. I love your paintings!

Fogle ,

Thanks!

Zink ,

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

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