You're not trapped here with me, I'm trapped here with you.
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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!
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"
I am! I'm guy from all of Canada! I haven't been to Yukon.
I don't know if you mean me but I'm a guy from Ottawa and it's nice to see you too!
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.
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!!!
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
It is suppose to be ranked by upvotes.
But which upvote type - boosts or votes? Why do boosts exist at all then, if they don't "boost" anything? I thought I remembered (granted it's been a couple of years since I migrated from Reddit to kbin.social) that it was boosts, and it was upvotes that existed but were irrelevant? (If so, but not anymore, then how and why was that changed?)
Not that you need to answer every one of these - I'm just sharing my confusion, which many people seem to also share.
If it's any consolation, there are more of us than there were at Pussolini's "state fair."
why are you cross-posting a year-old post?
"Most of us don't usually post, but the one who does carry the entertainment for us, feel free to look wherever you like."
I enjoyed this so much more as it was at 24 upvotes when I came upon it. Just barely qualifies for plural of dozen.
Theres pie!
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John, Mike, Greg, Philip, Crystal, and I try. Looking for six more to make this someone accurate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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
@FoxtrotDeltaTango there's actually dozens more - but just like on reddit, they are lurkers 😆
White font on grey background is not friendly.
how do we get more? i made stickers

i already handed out 50 or sth.
You should add your @ and see how many convert by giving you a follow. I heard about lemmy almost 3 years ago around the Reddit third party API controversy and made the jump. Hated the Reddit app and haven't been back.


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