Fediverse memes

Lemmy is fine though what are you on about

Upvotes mean jack, where's the community engagement

I hated when my posts got popular on reddit. 10k-1m+ people suddenly being aware of my existence, trawling my profile, filling up my inbox with replies and PMs- just a miserable experience that made the website overwhelming for days. Hexbear topping out at like 120 upvotes is the sweet spot for not being overwhelmed but still getting quality engagement in the comments. At most I think a post could get 1000~ without becoming nonsensical, which I think might have been where /r/chapotraphouse topped out.

Whenever the subreddits I ran surpassed 50k subscribers, the algorithmic incentives immediately undermined the things which made that community good. The volume of posts is so high that any individual one is lost unless they can grab attention quick. That's where the "epic narwhal bacon" shit comes from. In the time it takes to read a multi-paragraph comment, users can upvote a dozen meme ones. Newcomers only see the memes and know that's how they fit in, so the whole thing snowballs into a parody of whatever the community was originally about. Quick growth comes at the expense of the forum's ideological coherency and all the internal struggle sessions that form it.

What's the difference? Can I see piefed communities through Lemmy? Or do I need a different account and/or app?

This is the first I've heard of piefed, and so I'm just browsing the desktop site. It's kinda jank, to be honest.

Another migration. I know I'm sure I'll be told I'm a ding dong, but all these migrations are the reason why decentralized social media will never be popular. Some probably think that's a good thing, but 90% of the posts here are the same person posting hentai.

never did care for piefed, none of the features it's added so far are particularly appealing to me

Oof. Lemmy as a decrepit grandma is a bit unkind.

Without their pioneering work in the early quiet days and absorbing the first wave of reddit refugees, PieFed wouldn't have anything to glom onto and build from so there is a symbiosis going on.

I looked into making yet another account, this time on piefed, but didn't like the automatic blocking of a few communities. Yeah, I'm a massive hypocrite because I argued hard for the defederation of maga.place from sh.itjust.works, but since coming to lemmy.today I don't like the idea of automatic defederation where the users don't have input.

Are there any piefed instances that don't block anything? Or, is there a way for me to befriend everyone on my account?

I saw what makes you cheers.

Right, see you when you become the new Reddit.

Show me 1 non-twat piefed poster and I'll make an account

You are winning the race to be a lesser known reddit, congrats

giving a shit about "upvotes" seems like such a reddit thing to do.

I'm here for replies and conversation and yes...sometimes getting into arguments with dickheads (and...I'll be honest...sometimes being said dickhead when I'm having a bad day)

I don't actually care how many internet strangers are giving me made up internet points or not. It's always just seemed to me to be vacuous and silly as something to "chase"

Two uppies are enough. I made one person smile/chuckle/think/poo in terror/hungry. In terms of bad fables "it made a difference to that one"