• ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      No sorry, we just lost old Tommy, and nobody knows if Violet survived last Friday night.

  • phanto@lemmy.caEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    As a Canadian on Lemmy, I keep running in to the same couple of people… Hi, lady from Calgary, and guy from Ottawa! Nice to see you again!

    • meta4@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Well, what am I supposed to label you as? The lady got Calgary and the guy got Ottawa. Are you claiming all of Canada? Making your label “Guy from the entirety of Canada”

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I don’t know if you mean me but I’m a guy from Ottawa and it’s nice to see you too!

  • toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org
    241·
    3 months ago

    I’d argue that one of the main issues with the Fediverse is mostly just that interaction counts don’t federate properly. Mastodon made some good steps there recently, but it’s still not there Fediverse-wide.

    My Lemmy client, for instance, says this post only has 12 comments and 71 upvotes, but if you look at it on the instance it was posted on, it’s actually much more. This, of course, makes the Fediverse appear to be much less popular than it actually is. Which scares away new users immensely.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      That’s likely an Mbin issue. Ernst, the creator of the original product Kbin before it got forked and taken over as Mbin, made a confusing decision to have both upvotes and boosts together, and not just on the microblog (Mastodon) side with magazines but even side-by-side also on the Threadiverse with communities. So when you press the “upvote”… I forget which action even occurs - upvoting vs. boosting. Sorting by votes also gets very wonky.

      And yes, all those weird design decisions very much scare people away from Mbin: the largest Mbin instance has only <500 active accounts and all Mbin instances combined have mere hundreds of users. For comparison, the flagship PieFed instance has >1k users, the NSFW one has twice that, and Lemmy.world alone has >13k!!!

      • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Honestly I have no idea how all this works, it seems very confusing. But luckily I don’t need to understand it to use it lol. I just picked the Australia zone because I live there

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
      33·
      3 months ago

      Some instances intentionally filter out votes such as non-humans, fuckin nazis, and also fuckin Tankies, so I expect at least a little variance in numbers.

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Yes, although actually I am not aware of any instances that have NOT done this, even like a year or more before it needed done.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    If it’s any consolation, there are more of us than there were at Pussolini’s “state fair.”

  • Regular Water@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    “Most of us don’t usually post, but the one who does carry the entertainment for us, feel free to look wherever you like.”

    • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      If you want, I could use my dozen alt account to boost it up ;-)

  • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 months ago

    Also if you are capitalism supporter, angry socialists will down vote you to oblivion. You’re either with them or you’re witch to be hunted and burned on stake

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Votes don’t do anything on the fediverse so don’t be afraid to speak your mind. If you get downvoted, nobody really cares. I’d rather be downvoted than have my post sit at 1 score with no replies. At least then I know people bothered to read it.