I write fiction and post it online. I’m thrilled when one person reads it and comments. It doesn’t even need to be a positive comment, I’m just happy someone read it.
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I agree completely. I am in the process of building an app for Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon and Tumblr. Getting a single like or comment on the development process keeps me going!!
What technology are you using to build your app? Out of curiosity
I am using Swift/SwiftUI for the iOS and Apple Watch app. :)
I got fifteen real, unprompted compliments (about my bike, it is pretty cool) last week. It was surprising.
Bike pic pls. I would like to compliment your cool bike
yo, nice bike!
Imagine someone going like “Yeah, cool”, then scrolling past you - but IRL.
Like a fellow metal head giving you a little nod from across the street or something like that? Feels fucking cool honestly.
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pretty much like a stranger giving you a thumbs up after you did something weird
Yes, but consider, if I thought about it that way, I’d also have to accept that people might recognize my username between posts/comments and form an opinion of me. And that opinion might be that I’m dumb and mean, and that is the most horrifying eternal torture I can conceive of. Ergo, I’m going to pretend that those are just number that appear and that people have as much name blindness as I do.
im not a number, you dumb meanie
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megopie will remember this
Thanks u/megopie
Goes the other way too. Imagine 100 people yelling at you and calling you a dumbass.
This is the internet. If people. All you a dumbass it will be way more than 100.
Dumbass.
(J/k, its a joke, you are wonderful, maybe, I don’t really know enough to judge.)
Depends on the people really. The right kind of people hating you is a good feeling.
7 is the magic number for me. 1-5 feels like its bots, 6 is close, 7 is ‘yeah, I feel validated’.
I get a minimum of like 8 upvotes on every post I make in my group here on Lemmy and I’m convinced they’re all bots or all the accounts of one person. They all upvote in sync
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Ah, more than 7 upvotes, dietyhood confirmed.
Funny enough dislikes are exactly this way. -5 feels like 5 people just called me dumb.
Nope, those are bots. :)
I look at the negative votes on my comments and feel sorry for those people
I’m always happy if I post something here and just get a few replies, but I’m not sure if that would change if it were Facebook. But I don’t really use Facebook.
Facebook is super toxic though. It’s crazy :(
i just imagined it, and it felt pretty nice actually, thanks for that
I’d rather have 20 Lemmy upvotes than 10000 reddit upvotes.
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Yeah, but what about downvotes?
That’s like 15 people walking up to you to say “I liked that, thank you”, but then one person comes up to you, calls you a cunt and punches you in the face.
Man, you take down votes really harshly.
Not really, I would say I take them as intended.
I wouldn’t downvote something unless it was hateful, bigoted, offensive, bullying or so horribly wrong as to be offensive. [Edit] or spam.
Yeah you might want to re-calibrate there, because you’re treating one side of the equation a lot more extremely than the other. If upvote = “I liked that, thank you”, then downvote should = “I disliked that, no thanks”.
They are naturally imbalanced though (and they’re slightly different for posts and comments) - in some sense they are for increasing and decreasing visibility, promoting and demoting i.e.
upvote being “I liked this so much I think more people should see it”
no-vote “I don’t care about this, or dislike it - I don’t think it should he seem by more people”
downvote then being “I hate this so much I wish to actively stop other people seeing it”.
Perhaps an easier way of looking at it, is you go to see a gig, and the band finishes a song - if you like it, you applaud loudly. If you don’t like it, you stay silent, or give a half-arsed polite applause. If you hate it, or find it offensive, you actively attempt to “booooooooo” them off the stage.
It may of course just be cultural differences about positivity and negativity.
In the other hand, it may of course just be me, being weird :)
It’s a simple, I don’t agree with your opinion thing. That’s it.
It’s not supposesd to be agree/disagree, but thanks to a certain techbro who may or not be a robot, it is.
It was supposed to be “this does/not contribute something relevant to the conversation, and I may or not agree.”
Any tech bro had nothing to do with this. It is what the community has decided as a whole that an upvote or a down vote means in the context of a conversation on the internet.v I was on Reddit for about 17 years pretty much since the beginning. And before that I was on dig and it’s always how it’s been used when it comes to the context of conversations.
I’d still upvote something if it contributed to the conversation/discussion/argument, even if i personally didn’t agree with what the person is saying.
If it didn’t really contribute anything, I’d leave it blank.
Same. If I’m not into something, I just scroll past it. I usually downvote if I disagree or hate it.
Not really, I would say I take them as intended.
In that case, you either take up votes as “I liked that, thank you” and downvotes as “I didn’t like that”; or you take upvotes as “people come up to you to give you oral pleasure”, in which case you can take downvotes as “calls you a cunt and punches you in the face”.
I think that’s a weirder scale than the one I’m using.
Yeah righto, cunt 👊💥
FACE! 💥
That would mean I had to interact with 15 people.
Imagine, 20 people standing in front of you saying “Good job”, but there are 25 more who have to tell you that they don’t like what you are doing instead of minding their own business… That’s the average social media with down votes enabled.
upvotes dont mean anything without downvotes
Neither mean anything, both are completely useless fictional numbers.
they still give at least a wibe of what others opinion is about something. A lot of upvotes or downvotes tells of strong opinions, lack of negative votes tells of lack of negative opinions, a lot of both tells that thing being voted might be controversial.
personally i appreciate honest downvotes a lot, since they let me know i might be wrong about something or at least might need to reconsider.
Fair point, i can see how those can be used to gauge general opinion of people.
Downvotes are a toxic feature when used on other opinions. Brings negativity no one needs.
