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.
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.
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.
Anything reaching those kind of numbers is probably a music video or some sort of nursery rhyme set to music. Youtube is mostly a music service.
Beyond that, there’s a grammarly ad that hit over 500 million views, wonder how much they spent on that and a lot of random memes. It’s real difficult to find the most viewed real non-music, non-kids, non-ad video. Probably still Charlie Bit my Finger (again). Except Mr Beast, not many others regularly topping 100M.
As 10 Lemmy upvotes are equal or greater than 100 Million YT views according to this metric, I am already deep into the billions of views, the whole population of the world has already viewed this several times
Depends on what you mean by “winning”. Some up votes are agreement that the comment makes the most sense; while others are because of hive mind mentality.
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