Petty? Yes definitely. But your description is an extremely reductionist take.

I'm focusing on making one post per week to contribute some degree of engagement on Lemmy. Can't complain about the platform dying if you don't put in some effort yourself.

That being said, immediately resorting to personal attacks over what is perceived as "correct technique" not only doesn't help with encouraging engagement on Lemmy, it also doesn't make them "right" -- it just makes them look like an a-hole. Doubly so if the whole thing involves something as subjective as taste in food. While I don't dispute that my technique is perfect in the original post (I'm making these for myself to eat, not social media posting. So the effort spent on each dish is limited), I do think some criticism crosses the line as to not being constructive.

In the case of last week's post, I started off with saying there is no sauce, unlike the case of American Chinese food, which seems to add sauce for no reason. What even is "sauce" anyways? Outside of Cantonese style cooking, I don't expect any fried rice to come with "sauce". Especially from a region that tends towards using salt, pepper, and sesame oil to naturally uplift the taste of raw ingredients. I don't need someone with a total of 3 comments telling me that they can do better if they wanted to post (but don't, for "reasons"), or belittling an entire region just because they needed to drive home that I'm a shit cook with an attitude problem that needs correcting. (I agree with the attitude problem, hence this post.) Who gave THEM the divine authority to correct everyone's attitudes?