Never noticed that phenomenon anywhere else
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Did you blur out his titties or what?
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Always speaking from my point of view and what I have seen during my time on Lemmy.
I have see many posts about niche communities being dead, and I seen lots of posts getting downvoted right away, including my posts.
Users wanted to a change from Reddit, yet they replacate it.Downvotes are almost never used correctly. People think if something isn't for them, it deserves a downvote. An inevitable bit of Reddit culture that comes with that user base jumping ship. Nonetheless, it could only cause the death of a community if the people in that community don't choose to spend time there.
When I browse my subscriptions, it doesn't matter if the posts I want to see score too low on the vote scale to be discoverable in All. I'm going to see them, because they're what I came to see. I went looking for those communities, and curated my own feed. I think if more people went looking for stuff they want to see instead of letting their client show them whatever is doing well on votes, the votes wouldn't matter nearly as much.
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Do tell us!(Including me, when possible)
But no guys, keep posting USA political news, political memes, what Trump said and downvote any athletic, music and ASMR post just because it's not about USA or political, and then complain how niche communities are dead.
Don't forget to downvote this comment too, it's not political.People should just block communities they don't care about instead of downvoting posts from those communities in the all feed.
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People should just block communities they don't care about instead of downvoting posts from those communities in the all feed.
That's a good example! I have done so with almost all USA political communities, and now when I browser all I discover more stuff.
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A lot of those types are just reposting reddit’s top content. Or copying from facebook.
I am guilty of this, mostly because if I have to repost memes from somewhere, I'd rather it be somewhere off the fediverse so people don't see double. It would be hard work to only post oc, and my oc isn't always received as well as reposts. I personally aim for there to be regular posts by someone in the communities I post in, and collecting reposts allows me to build a backlog I could never build with oc alone.
Besides, I don't believe in meme ownership unless it took a significant amount of artistic talent to create. Since that includes none of my posts, I do onto others as I want done onto me.
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Did you blur out his titties or what?
Them Titan titties are notoriously seductive. Can't have the horses sppoked.
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When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.
Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with "I know you are but what am I" or "that's what your mom told me last night", and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.
It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.
A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it's a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).
That is a fantastic article, thank you. I don't know if there is a way around the ennui engine, not without massive systemic changes; seems like it's part of human nature. It seems pretty rational too, from an animal-brain point of view ... to take a sure win right now instead of a maybe-win later.
It's unfortunate that this feeds so many people's anger cycle. I wonder if that's cultural.
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Did you blur out his titties or what?
atlas titan titties.
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I would propose censoring female nipples with male nipples then. Since the latter need not be censored.
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That is a fantastic article, thank you. I don't know if there is a way around the ennui engine, not without massive systemic changes; seems like it's part of human nature. It seems pretty rational too, from an animal-brain point of view ... to take a sure win right now instead of a maybe-win later.
It's unfortunate that this feeds so many people's anger cycle. I wonder if that's cultural.
Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists.
That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don't support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience.
So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.
