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?
I’ve seen you post many, many things. A lot of it is thought provoking and engaging. That’s the core importance of contributing to any community.
The problem is the community themselves. Now what has been carried over from Reddit, unfortunately, is this hive-minded process. People only love to read and engage with what aligns with their perspectives. These are the people who feel their opinions are factual and that they are never wrong. They only allow the right way of thinking to be filtered out.
This brings about a large issue across all walks of the internet. The karma system, only worsens that, because now people can feel validated in everything they say. “Ohhhh the more upvotes I got, the more I’m righteous and that my opinion doesn’t smell like shit!” And they let that get way too into their heads to act the way they do.
I’ve found that a lot of people with tons of karma points, tend to be the most uptight, self-righteous bastards you can ever come across.
I don’t fucking care for anything about the karma system, people can take it and choke on it for all I care. What I would want for myself and anyone, is to be able to express, articulate and be able to say my opinions as I see fit. If the idea of someone else’s thoughts offend you, then you’re the problem, whether you like that or not.
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.
What you should do is stop caring about “karma”, it has no value (even more so here, it’s not even a thing). Don’t do things to get likes, do them because you like doing them and/or think they can help others.
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 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.
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. 😊
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)
Over 2 million karma. Ooh La La dork jk
More content is good in a system like Lemmy which is designed around filtering. So continue posting!
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 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
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
