I had a great Sissy-phus joke lined up until I realized that's probably Atlas

Isn't that Atlas?

don’t want to scare the horses

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

No worries: this is Atlas. S*syphus is not censored

Here on Lemmy we know there's no financial incentive, no perverse conflict of interests - just people who cared enough to build the infrastructure, maintain it, and provide service for others.

Feels nice for sure.

Yeah I had a realization that a lot of the things that used to bother me on reddit don't worry me as much here. Something is fundamentally working better but I'm not sure what it is yet.

I wouldn't say we appreciate all of them. Just depends on how they do it. If you post frequently that's great. If you dump a dozen posts in under an hour on the other hand I think you're an asshole. All it does is drown out communities. Leaves them dead.

Hips and nips, otherwise I'm not eating.

3K+ comments in my two years on Lemmy. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

What happened to the potential consolidation between !world@quokk.au and !globalnews@lemmy.zip?

Reddit still has an absolute stranglehold on !leagueoflegends@lemmy.world

Maybe I should take this opportunity to move the community over to piefed.

I get so overjoyed when you guys are able to post sightings of your own, and Lady Butterfly's Medieval owls the last couple weeks have been a nice addition as well.

You do a lot of great work as a poster and as a facilitator with getting the word out on a lot of things. You stepping up to do this macro level community building I think has really bolstered a lot of Fedi content, and I feel that's crucial to all of us having continued success as a platform.

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).

Them Titan titties are notoriously seductive. Can't have the horses sppoked.

atlas titan titties.

You really are, i love your posts thank you for continually making my day a little brighter

Loving your posts ickplant

You are an animal content machine! If I see an animal that I didn't post, I usually expect to see your name under it. 😄

Me too, thanks, but I wouldn't call the shitpost/meme communities I post to small

Truly. When I see a cute animal pic, I'm surprised if you haven't posted it. Thanks for your work, it makes Lemmy a lot more enjoyable!

I recognized you instantly

Cheers!

I’ve been trying to keep !nebula@lemmy.world alive but it only has 356 members

omg I had no idea! I was doing that early on but I got tired of it and stopped checking. Looking forward to the new Jet Lag season!

👁️

Thank you for your service:-)

Oh look, now we are talking with you too ☺️

🤗

You should advertise it on newcommunities@lemmy.world and communitypromo@lemmy.ca

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!

Coz they've been slapped onto Atlas

on the bright side, now I don't have to look at reddit or facebook.

besides, that's why I like fedimemes, bc it's usually fediverse-original.

I mainly wish people would add a little something if they did that. Some kind of context, or a particular bit of the articles they share that makes it significant to them, etc. Basically anything that would make it seem like a human posted and not a repost bot.

I pull a lot of my content from Facebook since most sources are photography hobbyists and charities, which just use that as a free quick and easy platform to reach the most eyes so they can focus on making content. But I try to contextualize what is going on in photos, can provide background to the species or the procedure being done, and answer any questions about things, which I feel is a good value add service by me sharing it here.

I will post things from my personal work too, but the animal thing isn't my day job, so other than my weekly clinic shift or vacations, there's only so many opportunities I get to shoot my own owl photos! 😜 But I still get to bring a lot of daily joy to people that won't touch those other platforms, and I add a lot of research and experience they wouldn't get by going to the original source.

There is still use being a straight content curator, but I think it's just really going the extra mile by adding something to it yourself that can enhance it.

I used to be critical of this but I've come around because:

1. Creating memes takes ideas/time.
2. My ideas are wacky and untested.

So I might spend 20-60 minutes making something only for people to hate it. (This happened a lot more often in the beginning because I was bad and my ideas took a lot of photo editing.) I still make memes when I think the idea is worth it. Of course, I could just pander to what I think people want to hear, but I make memes for more organic reasons than that.

I am guilty of this, mostly because if I have to repost memes from somewhere, I'd rather it be somewhere off the fediverse so people don't see double. It would be hard work to only post oc, and my oc isn't always received as well as reposts. I personally aim for there to be regular posts by someone in the communities I post in, and collecting reposts allows me to build a backlog I could never build with oc alone.

Besides, I don't believe in meme ownership unless it took a significant amount of artistic talent to create. Since that includes none of my posts, I do onto others as I want done onto me.