There are dozens of upvotes. DOZENS!
Well, a bit fewer from PieFed lately 🤪
Side note, I honestly love that people don’t automatically downvote comments with an emoji here though.
Same 🥺❤️❤️UwU❤️❤️✨💖
(taking the piss, I do genuinely enjoy that an emoji won’t get you crucified here)
I also love that emoticons and kaomoji won’t get you crucified either :3
I still don’t know what PieFed is.
It’s another Lemmy. There are several alternative Lemmy’s actually: Mbin is another, forked originally off of Kbin, and there was another project Sublinks that was stalled but now is being worked on again. There’s also nodeBB, and there was going to be flarum but now I guess that’s on hold indefinitely…
The point is that if you are happy where you are at, then you don’t even need to care: they all share stuff using the ActivityPub Protocol. Even Mastodon (X/hitter replacement) and Friendica (Facebook replacement), Loops (Tiktok replacement), Pixelfed (Instagram replacement), etc. can all share too - though PieFed and Lemmy (and Mbin and nodeBB) are more closely related, being more or less Reddit replacements, or compatible with that anyway.
PieFed does offer more features than Lemmy - like user polls, user & post flairs, multi-communities that are user-customizable and shareable, etc. But also, the main dev recently and controversially took away people’s rights to upvote (hence my joke about fewer contributions from PieFed lately), imposing a confusing and non-transparent quota system for how many votes someone is allowed each day. Like most features it can be enabled or disabled by the instance’s admin team, but it is making people wary of switching from Lemmy to PieFed when not just this but other features like it will come in the future - with barely any notice and against massive community push-back.
Then again, Lemmy’s main devs are tankies, who promote people on their instance trolling users across the whole Threadiverse calling for the fall of the entire Western civilization and the death of most people therein. So it’s not like one software platform is controversial while the other is not - they both are, just in different ways.
But at the end of the day, they all are helping, bc their freely offered FOSS is an enormous boon to us all, who hate Reddit (fuck spez). If you do want to check out PieFed, look at PieFed.zip that has that vote quota disabled and a very sensible admin team. Maybe even make an account, as that sign-up wizard is outstanding, and even use PieFed for a bit as its abilities to discover communities is so much better than Lemmy’s - even if you only use that information to let you know which communities to subscribe to on your Lemmy.world main account, it’s a nice experience. (And this way whenever your instance goes down due to some technical issue or upgrade, which is rare but does happen, then you’ll have another option to jump to for awhile!:-).
PyLova exists to solve those philosophical issues with PieFed.
Absolutely, and that PieFed fork is coming along quite nicely with a bunch of small features that even PieFed lacks, quite exciting! (And the maintainers are currently looking for more to do, so let them know what you might want to see from it? e.g. I asked for it to show downvotes alongside upvotes and that’s already implemented, it’s so quick!!! Changes in Lemmy take like 2 to >5 years, while PieFed & PyLova are both like days to months, its fantastic!!)
A couple things I will say in PieFed’s defense is that a LOT of the criticism against it is outright misinformation, and actually it is mostly quite friendly in not only NOT hard-coding filters (as people have claimed but the evidence proved the opposite) but also outright making the provided filters as the most optional feature type imaginable - specifically opt-in.
The vote quota is a departure from that, being opt-out, and also in defiance of massive community push-back. It seems to be boosting the signal that the main dev has been sending for awhile now as in a shift away from Reddit-esque “social media” e.g. shitposting memes and more towards… I dunno, maybe Mastodon serious conversations? The important thing being that all instance admins would now need to be on their guard for “improvements” that are virtually unannounced and simply snuck into the code along with other things. Though all FOSS is that way, and Lemmy is no exception.
The Threadiverse is maturing now, with multiple software options and people holding one another to account. I’m so proud! 😁
Didn’t sublinks stall because he had a baby? I remember reading something about it and the plan always being to come back to developing it. Edit: looks like it stalled for other reasons as well https://discuss.online/post/39386407
jgrims stepped back from daily admin duties of his instance (discuss.online) to more fully focus on developing the software. I imagine we won’t hear as much about it now that PieFed (+ even its fork PyLova) are on the scene, being a fully featured, fully functional platform, which raises the bar to compare against.
Thanks for the link, that’s interesting!:-)
SubLinks was originally written in Java (which is why it caught my interest) and in the link he says that he wants to move to Python. Perhaps I will revisit SubLinks in ~10 years when I have more free time.
I wonder if that will lose a lot of contributors.
The bigger changes involve the switching to a microservices architecture. He might do better at that point to integrate with other projects - PieFed/PyLova, Lemmy, Mbin, nodeBB, etc. - rather than build a new competitor to all of them, but that’s my thousand mile away view and maybe that is simply impossible or at least really difficult.
There’s beans in the bean stand
There’s not dozens, there’s THOUSan…d.
Having recently released a free Android/iOS game I can tell you: 25k views on Reddit, 80 visits to my store page. 100 upvotes on Lemmy 600 views on the store.
Reddit is simply full with bots, upvotes mean nothing.
i knew it was bad, but had no clue it was that bad
It’s even worse: Popular subreddits like /r/games have a “at most 10% self promotion” rule, so 10% of your posts can be self-promotion. So I thought: Hey, my account is 14 years old or so, over 100k karma, I’ll make a post about my game.
Got instantly taken down, they counted every single patch note post in my own subreddit to the rule. And then I noticed whenever I posted the direct iOS App Store link my post instantly got filtered, even in my own subreddit! The mods heavily pushed me towards buying Reddit ads.
Those are insane ratios, I would never had guessed there would be that much of a difference!
Well you’ve got some upvotes here so what’s the game?
You could just click on my user name :)
Yesterday was indie Sunday, again tons of views, but less interaction than Lemmy:
This used to be true; now I sort by New - 6 Hours and I get posts like this with 400 upvotes
The fediverse grows
My crippling scrolling addiction and my crippling corporation hate have conspired to make me sort by top of the last 6 hours. I regularly still see posts with 20 upvotes
I’m here just this week, totally new to the fediverse after they killed old reddit. I like it a lot, feels like the old days.
Dig -> Reddit -> Lemmy
This might be the most upvoted post I’ve ever seen on Lemmy so far.
Wait’ll you hear about the Lemmy beans - 9.25K upvotes!!
That’s super impressive! But I only see 7.86k upvotes. I wonder why that is.
Edit: Oh wow, and adding a third wrinkle here:
- Lemmy.world says 9.25K upvotes
- I was talking below about sh.itjust.works showing 7.86K
- Your home instance Lemmy.ca does not even have this post at all - it has posts from that exact community and from around that time though, so perhaps your admin blocked the OP user account prior to that post being submitted?
It is normal to see such differences, although in this case I am not sure what instance sh.itjust.works may have been defederated from at the time that Lemmy.world was not - perhaps it was hexbear.net prior to Lemmy.world defederating from it? Or a LOT of user accounts on lemmy.world or elsewhere in the Threadiverse but blocked on sh.itjust.works?
It also looks like Lemmy.world’s sort by old is broken somehow.
You can see all the individual upvotes and downvotes on lemvotes, but that’s a lot for a human to read through.
I guess the OP submitted the post from their home instance, but then the community it was submitted to is located on Lemmy.world so it may be the “official source” in such a case? e.g. if someone were to use the Lemmy instance block feature on sh.itjust.works then this post would still come through, while if someone instance blocked Lemmy.world then it would not, despite the OP’s instance being otherwise.
That’s weird to be such a noticeable difference between the two!! (Edit: now three)
There was another one from back in the day when someone asked for advice on how to get along without taking a piss for 3 days straight. That got something like 1-2k upvotes if I remember correctly.
Yes.
Coming up on 420 any minute now
If this were any other social software, I’d say “good timing”. But since it’s Lemmy, I’ll say “Shift+F10”.
You can’t verify the amount of votes it had when I took the screenshot, for that you’ll just have to take my word, but you can verify the dates, that I posted at 21:43 my time and the original post was posted 21:30 my time. 8 votes after 13 minutes is actually quite good on Lemmy. Pays off to browse by “Top Hour”.
Hah yea I actually do believe it, just a head nod to the technical smarts of those here.
There’s always upvotes in the Banana Stand, Michael.
I don’t know what the fediverse is and at this point too afraid to ask
Yer right in the middle of it bud
Assuming you’re not just memeing, fedi.tips has a pretty good explainer, although it’s more mastodon focused than lemmy focused.
Happy cake day. At least one year in and you still don’t know?
I remember when the most upvoted Reddit posts had about 1k upvotes, and it was the golden age of reddit.
In 10 years time there is a chance people will mythologise this as the good old days of Lemmy!
For sure it’s great eight now I hope no bot’s and AI shit takes over to create a corporation adds space like the rest of the web.
Quick only tell like 400,000 more people about the Fediverse and then shut the fuck up
Unironically, I often think about how maybe we should invite r/Europe to europe.pub, and then I’m like “nah fuck those guys”
This made me look at my account’s top posts. Highest I ever gotten was 400 upvotes for a post on Android about Pocket now saying malware on android is not a thing 11 years ago.
Then around too 20-ish of posts on small niche subs and meme subs generally around 5 - 8 years ago.
I miss those times.
I should help here but alas I am not my past self. It took me a long tine lurking back then to start posting, and it will take me a long tine to start posting here as well.
Yep. At a certain point the numbers dont matter. And reddits bot numbers are crazy.
I don’t know about posts, but for comments I used to hold the most upvoted comment of the accumulated vores on the fediverse, and probably also the most replies. All by accident of course, and yet nevertheless, I can tell you that there are not just dozens, but thousands of people viewing this shit. Posts must be worse.
It happens and decays quite fast, so your inbox will be red for a couple of days at most. Reddit was the same but for other reasons. People actually read this in comparison, whereas on Reddit the interest would die within hours, unless someone accidentally found your post three years later through googling.
Tastes soo good. Don’t stop me. I already have 5 upvores on this.
I like to comment but am indifferent to upvoting. Sorry.
Oh now you’re in for it. *Get ready for heckin’ updoot, bucko
⬆️ blam!
I prefer comments too — It’s social media, not electoral media
Yeah I find it tedious. An upvote barely expresses anything but the entire Internet is built around chasing this barely anything interaction.
Sometimes I have nothing worth saying or to add but I still want to express appreciation and approval of something.
Yes, approval is often only expressed as an upvote (which has very little emotional impact) but disagreement comes in the form of a comment, which hits harder.
So often a post will get hundreds of upvotes but the 20 negative comments on it make it seem like everyone hates it. There are many many ways to disagree so people will always find a new issue to bring up.
We have a structural problem, baked into the way the threadiverse works, that makes communities feel more negative and hostile than they are. I’m not sure what to do about that.
Taking away (or limiting) people’s ability to vote doesn’t mean they’ll leave more comments. It just makes the sorting less effective at moving the comments that the most people like to the top of the thread.
We have a structural problem, baked into the way the threadiverse works, that makes communities feel more negative and hostile than they are.
That’s just what happens when you federate with tankies. I’m sure the instances that block hexbear, lemmygrad, and .ml are the most peaceful. Not that they’ll be totally free from trolls, but it’s about numbers.
Thanks for sharing.
I think he’s saying that upvoting is a structural problem.
And I’m disagreeing
Upvotes here are more rare and therefore more valuable
The magic number is 1k.
Remember when the most upvoted post on reddit had 10k upvoted and it was about scooby doo?
well, the most upvoted thing I saw here was a post of a dude wanting to keep his piss inside for 3 days straight. It’s a striking cultural difference I guess.Scrap that. It’s literally just a can of fucking beans
did my part…i UP VOTED 🙏
Resharing this to my Friendica account. Just to know where do all these non-threadiverse upvotes are coming from. Cheers!
