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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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

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      Honestly, if I want dopamine hit from social media or forums, I prefer to get replies. I like discussions and see other people’s opinions.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    I use Lemmy because it appeals to my wish to be alone, by myself, with no one here beside me ❤️ social media peace at last.

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    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.

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      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.

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      the meme should really swap lemmy and don’s numbers, we all see triple digits on lenmy all the time

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        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.

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          whoa! you were here before the Beanening, before the Three Day Labor of the Poopless One?

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    I can’t name the last time I watched a YouTube video with 100M views. If it’s that popular it’s probably not something I’m interested in.

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      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.

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    I often get up to 10 likes when I upload my cat pics with hashtags on every platform.

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      Yupp, blame my FOSS-fundamentalism and communism for being here early - but I still took a looooong break after first trying it out for a bit. Am elated it managed to grow a community since then.

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          The short answer: It made me interested in non-commercial alternatives. The fact that the main devs are communists in their own right (even though not necessarily of the same school of thought as myself, but close enough), certainly helped, too.

          BTW, just in case you are concerned about that - they are commited to free software principles and the software they develop here is certainly politically agnostic, and they can’t and won’t keep anyone from hosting their own instances with their own focus or forking the software in the worst case.

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              People here describe them as tankies, which I take as meaning a person who thinks the Soviets did communism right

              I prefer old commies. They wanted a local revolution and only liked the USSR in that they were the best source of money for funding such revolutions