It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore
Uranium3006@kbin.social to 
businessinsider.com
Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.
You are viewing a single comment
Like for real!! I was a semi-lurker on reddit. Posted a couple times a year.
I just passed 500 posts on Lemmy.
I've found lemmy to be alot less hostile, don't care about downvotes, but attacking people because of opinions doesn't sound like a fun time to me
The absence of a running karma total is a surprisingly powerful difference. I do still look back at old posts, and it's nice when there's votes, but without the little number next to a name or when I mouse-over a profile, there's no motivation to be the first in a thread to repost a cliche joke or to ragebait for fake internet points.
I think the “not having to be first” is what is so powerful.
I know that if I comment on a post from a few days ago on a populated community, I’ll likely at least get a reply from OP, if not a bunch of other people finding my comment and replying as well.
It’s like Lemmy is the nice, small-town version of Reddit (which is probably more similar to Gary Indiana).
That’s a bit cruel to Gary, Indiana, don’t you think?
Check it out:
https://abc7chicago.com/gary-indiana-most-miserable-city-in-us-cities/5582601/
McBane thats the joke.gif
I hated most of those cliche jokes. Here I am looking for real conversation only to be met with thousands of not witty low effort jokes.
There are some starting here too, I swear to god if I see one more, "Good bot" reply to a fucking bot account I may stroke out. I don't know why, but that one really grinds my gears.
There used to be a bot rating bot on reddit that used those comments to see which bots where actually good. It was useful. I'm hoping someone will make the same on lemmy and go back retroactively to index old comments.
Why rely on people commenting to it? Why not use upvotes/downvotes?
I think that on some bots it is meant as feedback on its performance but to have 10 users give the same feedback is kinda annoying. Maybe Lemmy can have a feature were humans can approve/disapprove bot performance that doesn't involve upvote/downvote. It would only be available to bot accounts in the site's UI. Could possibly expand it's functionality to something more useful. Or just use the voting system because it's already in place.
Yeah, just use the voting system... no need to make comments to the bots.
Lemmy definitely has a more chill, human vibe than I got with Reddit, given how overrun the latter was with vast armies of shills, bots, alt right trolls, etc.
Not that it's all rainbow-pooping unicorns frolicking through flowery meadows here but at least the dick comments tend to be much rarer and often a one off for the person making them.
Opinions are fine. Being disingenuous/an asshole at the same time as having an opinion definitely provokes smackdowns, even on lemmy.
Same goes for 9gag but that site is different
Huh, when I clicked on your profile it says 0 posts...
Profiles are rarely accurate. I viewed the same profile from two different instances (yes the same profile, not the same username from two different instances) and they didn't even have the age of thr account the same. One was 2 years, one was 2 months. So I wouldn't trust that. I'd only trust it if you're logged into that very instance.
In this case it's more likely to be because that's one of my alts. This is my main.
Read the bio. That's not my main. This is.