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Edit: fixed the meme.

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[–] 103 points 11 months ago (31 children)

You mean one thousand upvotes and a comment? Lol I think the most upvote I have ever seen on a post was like 12k.

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  • [–] 97 points 11 months ago (30 children)
  • [–] 50 points 11 months ago (14 children)

    that post happened during the time Lemmy had the most active users, so there is that

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Also during the time Lemmy was most excited about beans. One of the golden ages, to be sure.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There was also the can't poop guy

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Its depressing that I'm living through another golden age... Last time it was reddit, before that it was msn messenger. I can't even remember what was before that. Probably chisels and slabs of rock.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    What the fuck are you talking about, Jesse?

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    During the initial reddit migration, Lemmy/Kbin had a larger active userbase than it does now. It fell off a bit after a little while, though its slowly creeping back up there with a more committed community.

    But basically there were more users to upvote beans at that point

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Same lol. Here since the 'beginning'

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    It's been a long road...

    The transition away from "the bad place" has done me a lot of good. I'd only been a lurker and occasionally commented prior. Finding the fediverse Trek community, at least as I initially saw it (old Risa), encouraged me to engage in what has now become a much loved hobby.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    I see the same, top all time post with 8112 upvotes

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Do instances count votes differently or separately? I don't even know.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's sort of an odd part of the threadiverse. Every instance calculates based on what they're notified of which means the age of the server along with what other instances it's federated with impacts the count

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    The federation of votes makes sense for potentially mitigating bad actor instances with false votes. Like if a new instance spun up and falsified their votes it could be negated easily by defederating.

    Having differing votes is like having differing communities based on subscriptions. Just a necessary side effect of picking and choosing what gets shared when federated.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Is that what kicked off the beans era? That was some good times.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    I designed and bought a jeans wrap for my PlayStation controllers because I thought it would be funny for a meme post. They took forever to arrive, looked absolutely awful, and didn’t stay on.

    Lesson learned, don’t buy those sketchy upload a picture controller wraps.

    Don’t remind me of the jeans era.

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  • [–] 80 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Why do we need to comment on everything? Some things I just agree/like, no comment

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago

    Commenting draws attention to yourself, which invites scrutiny and judgement. An upvote is (mostly) anonymous.

    Also, upvotes take way less effort, always going to be more of those (unless a fight breaks out in the comments or something)

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Probably a "good post, nothing to add" case.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    The worst is that one of those comments is me, adding nothing to the conversation saying "same bro lmao"

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's well-known that there are levels of engagement with content, with fewer people doing the more involved things. Most people just scroll past everything. Single digits percentage upvote posts. Fewer go into the comments, and again maybe 10% of those participate in comments. The ratio of every level is different on different platforms, but it's there.

    For platforms with pretty quick flow like Reddit and Lemmy, the ratio naturally falls off hard. Something like Hacker News rewards slower and more thoughtful engagement with content and threads, so I'd guess they have a larger share of active commenters — although OTOH you don't quite want to show up with mindless predictable comments like prevalent here.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago*

    Prior to bots, Reddit observed on many occasions the 90% rule:
    90% of users just scrolled
    Of the ones remaining, 90% only voted
    Of the ones remaining, only 90% left comments
    And finally, 90% of those left never posted.

    So, it's expected to have 10x more votes than comments. Also I've never seen a post with more than like 1500 votes lol

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Coz we a lazy bunch. Deal with it.

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  • [–] 43 points 11 months ago (16 children)

    People keep saying “lemmy is dying Bluesky is dying” but maybe it’s the fact that the people who migrated to those sites were already burned on social media and know better than to start arguments on the internet.

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  • [–] 36 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    How many times you guys start writing a comment and after some words just say:

    Fuck it...

    App: Are you sure? > Discard

    ?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I’m waiting for an LLM integrated Lemmy app that will let me click a button like “OP is wrong, write me a reply telling them so”

    /s

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    “What a refreshing opportunity to boost engagement by confidently telling someone they’re wrong! Thank you for your bold and thought-provoking contribution — your feedback is not only valid, it’s downright essential for the thriving digital ecosystem we all pretend to enjoy. Let’s collaboratively acknowledge that OP is wrong, together.”

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    know better than to start arguments on the internet.

    no I dont

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Stay out of this. This is between me and OP

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I feel lemmy is growing, 2 years ago I would run out of stuff, a year ago is would see the same things

    Now there's comments everywhere and i never see the end of my feed.

    I just can't get the two communities I want to grow up and going.

    That's partly my fault being to busy to try make it work.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago*

    Less controversial comments that compel people to respond and argue with?

    Larger portion of mature people on lemmy that can't be bothered with bait?

    Vote button is easy.

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    My comments tend to get way more engagement here than on reddit. People are just friendlier. When I'm funny, they make me feel like the man. On reddit you had to piggy-back on top comments just to get any hits, and half of them were just confrontational for no good reason.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    It's also because Lemmy's sorting algorithms are much better. On Reddit, if you're more than 6 hours late to a post, comments won't get any interaction.

    You can tell Lemmy is written by socialists, with upvotes being much more evenly distributed and less focused on the top 5% going viral.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    on reddit there was a lot of bot generated commentary. like yes, bots posting comments but also users who wouldn't have commented getting pulled into a "discussion" by a bot comment.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    No comment needed if it's that good.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Share an example or two?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    Show me show me

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    ...perhaps the introverts are smarter than the fucks on reddit?..

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Can't speak for everyone but on my phone the a.lemmy.world website is unusable for replies. Half the reply box is covered by a control with a tempting x that closes the entire post and loses my reply. The submit button is hidden under the keyboard. When I finish typing I can hit the check mark above the keyboard which causes the website to zoom to 200% where upon I must find a neutral spot to double click somewhere and look for the post button, otherwise some nerd won't be able to invalidate my experience.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    As someone who uses Sync. I don't have this problem. Ever.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Didn't the developers of sync do a take the money and run?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Did they? Does anyone have a read of that?

    The app is working and I've been testing it since Reddit died

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    No idea about the drama, but the Sync app, which I also use, hasn't got an update since March 26, 2024 according to the Play Store.

    It feels like it is largely abandonware at this point. I'm just waiting for it to break before I find something else.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Less bots maybe? I've noticed this too and it triggers something in me because on reddit that was always a red flag of upvote bots or whatever cheating they used. I don't think people use those here, but there's also no bots that comment garbage.

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    [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    i don't think this is, or ever has been, a thing.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    That's a great picture of famous crapper poop logg

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I comment 2

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    If you only look at posts with the most upvotes, that's what you get. If you look at posts with the most comments, you'll see a completely different ratio.

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