If even 1 person smirks because of something I posted then I am happy

yeah but me getting 30 upvotes for my thing I worked for a year on is disappointing when the fart joke I made got 3000

I got fifteen real, unprompted compliments (about my bike, it is pretty cool) last week. It was surprising.

imagine those 300 people in front of you staring at you.

Please no. My anxiety could not handle that

Imagine someone going like "Yeah, cool", then scrolling past you - but IRL.

I write fiction and post it online. I'm thrilled when one person reads it and comments. It doesn't even need to be a positive comment, I'm just happy someone read it.

I agree completely. I am in the process of building an app for Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon and Tumblr. Getting a single like or comment on the development process keeps me going!!

Goes the other way too. Imagine 100 people yelling at you and calling you a dumbass.

7 is the magic number for me. 1-5 feels like its bots, 6 is close, 7 is 'yeah, I feel validated'.

Yes, but consider, if I thought about it that way, I’d also have to accept that people might recognize my username between posts/comments and form an opinion of me. And that opinion might be that I’m dumb and mean, and that is the most horrifying eternal torture I can conceive of. Ergo, I’m going to pretend that those are just number that appear and that people have as much name blindness as I do.

Would be cool if we kept this post to 15 likes but the internet doesn't have that sort of coordination.

Edit: This comment at 15 is good enough lol

I'm a simple man, I just need one like and that makes me happy.

Funny enough dislikes are exactly this way. -5 feels like 5 people just called me dumb.

I do too. 700 people might not seem like a lot, but 900 people actually is

That’s the danger of social media imo. Constant ambient parasocial relationships online leading to reduced interaction with the real world due to mental reconditioning.

i just imagined it, and it felt pretty nice actually, thanks for that

I'm always happy if I post something here and just get a few replies, but I'm not sure if that would change if it were Facebook. But I don't really use Facebook.

No kidding. Long ago during my Imgur days, I got 700+. I figure that was my 15 minutes of fame or something.

Hey, thanks for posting this.

Imagine, 20 people standing in front of you saying "Good job", but there are 25 more who have to tell you that they don't like what you are doing instead of minding their own business... That's the average social media with down votes enabled.

Yeah but look where he lives. There's hardly anyone there. He'd be lucky to get 1 like IRL.

I’d be creeped out if 300 people I didn’t invite were tearing at me. Go away.

I'd rather have 20 Lemmy upvotes than 10000 reddit upvotes.

Didn't thought I would see Abhijeet from CID on Lemmy.

That would mean I had to interact with 15 people.

Yeah, but what about downvotes?

That's like 15 people walking up to you to say "I liked that, thank you", but then one person comes up to you, calls you a cunt and punches you in the face.

Less exciting if it's 15 bots

15 likes is a lot for lemmy. 15 followers on the game btd6 is ridiculous.

15 likes on a popular social media isnt that much since so many more people are going to see the post that are way more likely to give a like compared to giving a complement irl