• 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·
      23 hours 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·
        23 hours 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
        51·
        23 hours 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·
          23 hours 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
    54·
    2 days ago

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

  • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    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
        2·
        9 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.

  • 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
      537·
      2 days ago

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

        • Okapi@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          402·
          2 days ago

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

          • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
            601·
            2 days ago

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

          • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            11·
            2 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·
        2 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
    13·
    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·
      1 day 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·
        1 day 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.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    101·
    1 day ago

    Such a wholesome thread. 🥰

    Never noticed that phenomenon anywhere else

    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!

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    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