I’ve been posting a lot lately But I seem like I’m controversial no matter what I post. I came from Reddit with over 2 million karma during the API controversy. Should I keep posting or give up on Lemmy?
The question isn’t if you’re useful to Lemmy or not. We don’t deserve to exert any weight on your heart with opinions and upvotes.
Are you doing something you think is worth your time, with or without external validation? Is this something you would do if you thought it was basically the internet version of putting messages in a bottle?
When you are old and on your death bed, what will the value of your reddit karma be? What is the value of it now?
Do things that matter to you. Do things that help you grow and be a better person.
Do you enjoy posting? That’s all that really matters in the end. Karma is pointless.
Controversy can actually be good, as long as you’re not saying stuff simply to provoke it for its own sake. If I wanted to only speak to something that agreed with everything I said I could just go tell an AI to act that way and waste my time there. Should communities be insular bubbles where everyone believes the exact same things?
No. But here people are not worried about debating. A long time ago I posted something I thought it was cute but i didn’t know it was a trigger for Lemmy. No joke I got 5 dms hating on me. One of them really heavy.
I like different opinions but lemmy does not
Ask not if you are useful to Lemmy. Ask if Lemmy is useful to you.
None of us are useful to Lemmy because Lemmy is not “useful.” Lemmy is a shit-pile of all of our combined thoughts and efforts. So, while no social media site is “useful,” Lemmy brings us a place to be entertained and informed/misinformed.
Most of your posts are shit. Most of my posts are shit. While we each usually shit in our own corners, we occasionally look at each other’s shit and say, “hmmm… This shit stinks.” Or, “this shit is a little nutty and I like that!” And even less frequently, we cross paths while shitting and our shit combines to create a new type of shit that other people can enjoy.
So, don’t try to measure your Lemmy “usefulness” based on karma, and instead focus on the shit. I often appreciate your shit, and your username always gives me a chuckle. Whether anyone likes it or not, all of our shit makes Lemmy’s shit the shit it is.
There is is, listen to uncle/auntie fartographer.
Well that was shitty. I like it. Thank you Sir or Madame Fartographer.
I think Lemmy (or the Fediverse in a broader sense) really benefits from everyone in it to just output as much as possible. More interaction, more content, more people coming for that content. If somebody does not like what you have to say they can just block you (or if it’s really hateful be banned)
Every person that logs in and interacts in good faith in some way is useful to Lemmy.
Most Lemmites are atheist so it would be, “act in good science”.
I’m upset now 😠
Jesus Christ relax.
Actually it would be “Charles Darwin relax.” here. But thank you for the consideration, I feel much better. 😊
Over 2 million karma. Ooh La La dork jk
I don’t see most of your posts in the wild but the one I did was good. Glancing at your profile, you post quality which is just going to get a different kind if engagement than what we’re used to on reddit
Stand tall, king. Numbers just scale a little different here and things move slow. You’ll notice your posts will continue to get engagement for a long time after a reddit post would normally die down too.
More content is good in a system like Lemmy which is designed around filtering. So continue posting!
I appreciate you, @return2ozma@lemmy.world and if you left us it would be a major loss.
I pay no attention to down-voters. The growing popularity of the fediverse brings as many bad people with it as good ones.
608? That’s my area code 😆
@return2ozma@lemmy.world you are appreciated!!
Thank you! I’ll keep on keeping on
Lemmy is VERY hateful. In some cases more than Reddit because we have less people but more radical. the amount of hate one can get just because it mentioned specific words is insane. There is no debate here, if you mention a couple of specific topics and trigger words you are sent to hell.
And I’m not even talking about .ml, that place is psychotic.
Seems like a bit of a “pickme” post. You do you, don’t worry about your 2 million updoots on reddit.
I might have posted after a night out drinking. Oops
That’ll do it!
I’ve been posting a lot lately But I seem like I’m controversial no matter what I post. I came from Reddit with over 2 million karma trying the API controversy.
Forget about karma and algorithm: votes don’t mean much around here.
What’s not different from reddit, as already mentioned, is that some people only seem to enoiy acting like jerks. The right answer to that is to 1) ignore them 2) to block them. They will still be able to (meaninglessly) vote but they won’t get a chance to annoy you directly anymore.
Should I keep posting or give up on Lemmy?
Should you keep on posting?
The Fediverse (lemmy being a small part of it, I’m from Piefed another and even smaller part of it) severely lacks active users so, from the Fediverse’s perspective the answer is obviously: yes, you should!
But one should never do something only because they think or because ethey’re being told they should do it. Even posting content on a forum. So, if you don’t enjoy doing it, it’s probably not worth your time.
I do participate as regularly as I can because I think most of the discussions are enriching and done with a correct mindset. I would stop participating if that was not the case. Like I quit using reddit the day I realized I could not agree with their latest policy changes (that was a couple years ago).
So, do you enjoy participating? If so, by all means keep on doing it as I have no doubt other people do appreciate your contributions too.
All posting here is useful at this point
Don’t stress about it. I think reddit gives people an unhealthy mindset about how internet forums are.
