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Hope someone knows us! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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This image is a popular Internet meme format known as the "Mother Ignoring Kid Drowning In A Pool Meme".The meme contrasts different levels of attention platforms receive, with "Posts on Instagram" getting the most focus while "Fediverse users" are depicted as neglected or forgotten.
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[–] 97 points 5 months ago (10 children)

There seems to be a neverending supply of complaints about the size and reach of the Fediverse and I'm just sitting here thinking this is about all the attention I'd like it to ever get. This is fucking nice. Doesn't monopolize your whole day, always has at least some fresh content, users are free with the upvotes and discourse is downright civil most of the time. Does anybody really want this place to be like Reddit or Instagram?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    I'd been using Instagram as my scrapbook of neat things I've done/made for several years. Mainly it's for my own personal enjoyment but I left it public because artist types like showing off I guess. Anyway, I accidentally made a post that went mildly viral, 300k views and 8k likes, and it pretty much took the fun out of it for me. I guess I didn't really want an audience, I just wanted to look in the river like Narcissus. Now everytime I glance I get a notification that ripples my reflection.

    I caught the tiger by the tail. What a world.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It should not get like Reddit, but I still wish for more users so that some more specific "subreddits" (what's the term used here on Lemmy?) are getting more users and more posts.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Have you considered more fediverse to make up for that shortfall?

    If I run out of things on Lemmy that interest me, I switch gears to mastadon... If I'm getting tired of that shit, there's pixelfed

    With a lot of these new, non-algo driven sites you only see what you sign up for, so whatever kind of mood I was feeling the day I signed up, will influence how the site works for the first few months until it normalizes, and you find all your communities. i.e. my mastadon feed is chock a block FULL of self hosting Linux nerds, AND ITS AWESOME!

    the biggest gap still seems to be sports though, especially niche sports (I live breath and sleep MotoGP, and there ain't shit about MotoGP on Lemmy lol)

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