this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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Lemmy Shitpost

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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


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1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

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2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

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-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

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Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

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-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

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-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

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Why?

Edit: fixed the meme.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 104 points 3 weeks ago (1 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.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 99 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

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

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 40 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There was also the can't poop guy

[–] ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let us not forget the I can't poop for three days guy. That was just after the reddit api fiasco and helped cement Lemmy's capacity for collective comedy.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks 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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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't forget the Jeans era

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] protist@mander.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if it has anything to do with what instances your instance is federated with

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 10 points 3 weeks ago

That is exactly what it has to do with

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 84 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. If we son't have anything to add besides what the upvote/downvote is already saying, we'd get endless "Same", "This", and "No" types of comments.

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[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 weeks ago (5 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.

[–] FuCensorship@lemmy.today 35 points 3 weeks 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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[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

know better than to start arguments on the internet.

no I dont

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks 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)

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Coz we a lazy bunch. Deal with it.

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[–] Senseless@feddit.org 23 points 3 weeks ago

No need to add anything if it's already perfect.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] notsure@fedia.io 16 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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

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[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No comment needed if it's that good.

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Share an example or two?

[–] dan69@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Show me show me

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks 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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