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.
Ask not if you are useful to Lemmy. Ask if Lemmy is useful to you.
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.
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.
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. 😊
Judging by your recent post history, it looks like you’re doing a good job at attracting positive engagement. Many upvotes and comments on your posts. Of course, with that you also attract some negative engagement, but that’s inevitable when posting about politics.
You’re useful.
Don’t stress about it. I think reddit gives people an unhealthy mindset about how internet forums are.
blows my mind, but some people feel bad when they get downvoted, and think they did something ‘wrong’ if random weirdos on the internet don’t upvote them.
and further, they get upset and angry against people who they think downvoted them and sometimes seek revenge, talk about taking the internet way too seriously…
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!
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.
Don’t feel like you need to be useful, but thanks for contributing.
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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.
For what it’s worth, I appreciate your contributions. 👍
Thank you.
I came from Reddit with over 2 million karma
No one cares.
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Perhaps.
I don’t care that has an embarrassment of wealth in accumulated karma.
I do kinda care that there are people who think it’s actually relevant in some way.
…we are a community who cares. who the fuck are you to randomly hate someone…
Telling someone that no one cares how much karma they have on reddit is not an expression of hatred.
You are not responding here, who are you responding to?
To you.
Your response is way more hateful than simply saying that people don’t care about something as silly as reddit karma.
Explain
The other guy just said ‘no one cares’. It’s not aggressive in any way, it’s informative. I also don’t care at all about karma. I didn’t care when I was on reddit and I care even less now. If you agree with this sentiment you can upvote it, if you don’t agree you can downvote. 0 emotions are involved. Then you attacked this guy accusing him of hate. No one was hostile until you showed up.
when you join a communtiy who cares, then this is unacceptable. That you cannot see that speaks volumes.
No one said anywhere it’s a “community who cares”. ‘Ask Lemmy’ simply says “A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions”. lemmy.world is simply “A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.”. I think you just misunderstood something.
this is not an explanation
It actually is a perfect explanation. If you don’t get it it’s on you.
I am still waiting for an explantation
I haven’t heard of any controversy, but I think you do important work. May not be glamorous work, but having a consistent flow of news on Lemmy helps me keep up to date on the goings-on of the world. I assume most people think similarly
