Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
It even comes already deepfried for free
Lemmy is actually my most active platform. Nowhere has the self selection of joining communities, which means I'm just posting to my profile and no one sees it. With Lemmy (and Reddit before it) every post I make gets seen by people who want to see it and upvote/comment on it.
I feel that. Personally, I loved reddit back then and Lemmy now, because it's content-focused instead of user-focused. But it still has enough user accountability for it to work out, unlike e.g. something like the *chans, where it devolves into a cesspool of edgy nonsense quickly.
On Lemmy/old Reddit, there are visible powerusers and drama, sure, but on average the experience one will have when posting something is engagement with their content, instead of engagement with their person.
I never was able to get into any other social media, never really saw the appeal of it either. I feel like I want to not be seen, at least not intensely, and instead my content and my thoughts and opinions to be engaged with, reflected, developed. Most social media has only gotten worse in drifting into the other direction, with people becoming brands advertising themselves as a marketable package, chasing that dream of living on fame.
Actually upvotes on Reddit is much harder. Because you'll get burried in so much shit, nobody will see your post. The algorithm is so shit that only the most popular communities get shown first.
Lemmy is much better, people will read your post and it will actually go somewhere.
I'm constantly surprised at how many people upvote my Heathcliff without Heathcliff edits. It's the most derivative project I've ever done and that anyone pays attention is kinda amazing.
I've have never seen tge original content, so from my point of view its original is yours and them someone add a cat (or a bird with a helmet? ) to it.
I keep meaning to talk to Peter Gallagher about why he does that but I haven't had a chance. I have a feeling. He just thinks that it needs a cat. Though I do think the helmets add something.
I often get up to 10 likes when I upload my cat pics with hashtags on every platform.
Every day I post on c/poetry, and every day I'm like hey, 15 people liked what I picked! Somehow a smaller scale means more.
Like others have touched on, this place seems like a reasonable discussion with some real people. It’s not INTERNET BULLSHIT FIREHOSE.
I've posted a few of my finished mini paintings and it was so nice when people interacted
Where did you post them? I need to follow this.
There's only a few posts on my profile. The places aren't super active still
I'll join and make it sparkle. I love your paintings!
Thanks!
Sometimes I like a post so much I hit the upvote button twice
throwing you a downcite for balance ❤️
I struggle so hard to get even 5 boosts on mastodon. How do y'all do it 😂
the meme should really swap lemmy and don's numbers, we all see triple digits on lenmy all the time
Nowadays, definitely. 4 years ago, when this was originally posted? Back when I first engaged a little bit here before hibernating until the big exodus, my most engaged post had like 30-something upvotes.
whoa! you were here before the Beanening, before the Three Day Labor of the Poopless One?
Try Bluesky instead, it's more active as microblogs go.
Use the ever loving fuck out of hashtags.
Well, I am not on Mastodon myself, because twitter-like social media isn't my cup of tea, but from what I heard, engagement there seems to happen much more on a following-hashtags level than following-users level, so maybe (ab)using hashtags more might do the trick.
that's like half of lemmy!
The old post has 24 votes and this has over 400. Lemmy has grown exponentially since then.
Thanks spez for being such a big lemmy growth contributor.
Try 1.2k votes.
Dang we really have grown.
Ah, just like what Slavoj Zizek said about Stalinists: Joining into the applause themselves /s
In all seriousness, amazing work you are doing, one of the few projects I support financially, even with being on a subsistence-level income.
EDIT: You know what? I'll just leave this here for good measure:
https://join-lemmy.org/donate