4 year ruled Lemmy meme to put things into perspective

The old post has 24 votes and this has over 400. Lemmy has grown exponentially since then.

Thanks spez for being such a big lemmy growth contributor.

Dang we really have grown.
- Ah, just like what Slavoj Zizek said about Stalinists: Joining into the applause themselves /s
  
  In all seriousness, amazing work you are doing, one of the few projects I support financially, even with being on a subsistence-level income.
  
  EDIT: You know what? I'll just leave this here for good measure:
  https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Try 1.2k votes.

Holy you've been here for four years?

Yupp, blame my FOSS-fundamentalism and communism for being here early - but I still took a looooong break after first trying it out for a bit. Am elated it managed to grow a community since then.
- Yeah FOSS fundemental communists, we’re the worst echo chamber.
  
  Comrade.
  
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lE4UXdJSJM4&pp=ygURTGludXggc3RhbGxtYW5pc20%3D
- ayy, another OG
- Sorry, I haven't been on Lemmy as long. How did Communism send you here?
There are dozens of us!

100M view from normies or 10 upvotes from chads. You decide.

Here's an upvote.
- Chintastic!

Each upvote on lemmy is handcrafted by an actual human

As an actual human, can confirm I use my human fingertips to press the upvote button on the posts and comments I enjoy.
- https://xkcd.com/1530/
100% USDA certified organic, free range, artisanally handcrafted upvotes. Made with love.
Artisanal upvotes
whittled from a chunk of cedar

Still accurate, the amount of joy from a handful of upvotes beats thousands of updoots from the other place

100% right - I type while bathing in those sweet, sweet endorphins and taking in my brain thinking it's inside a valued person for a change

instead of upvotes, get 10 reply comments..

OMG ITS VIRAL!

As 10 Lemmy upvotes are equal or greater than 100 Million YT views according to this metric, I am already deep into the billions of views, the whole population of the world has already viewed this several times
Honestly, if I want dopamine hit from social media or forums, I prefer to get replies. I like discussions and see other people's opinions.
- Unless it's an argument in the reply.

I'm constantly surprised at how many people upvote my Heathcliff without Heathcliff edits. It's the most derivative project I've ever done and that anyone pays attention is kinda amazing.

I've have never seen tge original content, so from my point of view its original is yours and them someone add a cat (or a bird with a helmet? ) to it.
- I keep meaning to talk to Peter Gallagher about why he does that but I haven't had a chance. I have a feeling. He just thinks that it needs a cat. Though I do think the helmets add something.

Too many pixels, needs more compression

It's 4 years old. The pixels have aged since then.
- Only the finest aged pixels can satisfy the sophisticated Lemming palate.
- should've stored it in the freezer

Sometimes I like a post so much I hit the upvote button twice

throwing you a downcite for balance ❤️

Every day I post on c/poetry, and every day I'm like hey, 15 people liked what I picked! Somehow a smaller scale means more.

I've posted a few of my finished mini paintings and it was so nice when people interacted
- Where did you post them? I need to follow this.
Like others have touched on, this place seems like a reasonable discussion with some real people. It’s not INTERNET BULLSHIT FIREHOSE.

You're hitting a Mastodon level of upvotes here!!

I use Lemmy because it appeals to my wish to be alone, by myself, with no one here beside me ❤️ social media peace at last.

We can all be alone by ourselves here together ❤️
Alone together brother!
Hey bro, you mind if I watch you being alone?
- covers my eyes

Lemmy upvotes are more rare and therefore more valuable

that's like half of lemmy!

I struggle so hard to get even 5 boosts on mastodon. How do y'all do it 😂

Well, I am not on Mastodon myself, because twitter-like social media isn't my cup of tea, but from what I heard, engagement there seems to happen much more on a following-hashtags level than following-users level, so maybe (ab)using hashtags more might do the trick.
the meme should really swap lemmy and don's numbers, we all see triple digits on lenmy all the time
- Nowadays, definitely. 4 years ago, when this was originally posted? Back when I first engaged a little bit here before hibernating until the big exodus, my most engaged post had like 30-something upvotes.
Try Bluesky instead, it's more active as microblogs go.
Use the ever loving fuck out of hashtags.

I can't name the last time I watched a YouTube video with 100M views. If it's that popular it's probably not something I'm interested in.

Anything reaching those kind of numbers is probably a music video or some sort of nursery rhyme set to music. Youtube is mostly a music service.

Beyond that, there's a grammarly ad that hit over 500 million views, wonder how much they spent on that and a lot of random memes. It's real difficult to find the most viewed real non-music, non-kids, non-ad video. Probably still Charlie Bit my Finger (again). Except Mr Beast, not many others regularly topping 100M.

Actually upvotes on Reddit is much harder. Because you'll get burried in so much shit, nobody will see your post. The algorithm is so shit that only the most popular communities get shown first.

Lemmy is much better, people will read your post and it will actually go somewhere.

Lemmy is actually my most active platform. Nowhere has the self selection of joining communities, which means I'm just posting to my profile and no one sees it. With Lemmy (and Reddit before it) every post I make gets seen by people who want to see it and upvote/comment on it.

I feel that. Personally, I loved reddit back then and Lemmy now, because it's content-focused instead of user-focused. But it still has enough user accountability for it to work out, unlike e.g. something like the *chans, where it devolves into a cesspool of edgy nonsense quickly.

On Lemmy/old Reddit, there are visible powerusers and drama, sure, but on average the experience one will have when posting something is engagement with their content, instead of engagement with their person.

I never was able to get into any other social media, never really saw the appeal of it either. I feel like I want to not be seen, at least not intensely, and instead my content and my thoughts and opinions to be engaged with, reflected, developed. Most social media has only gotten worse in drifting into the other direction, with people becoming brands advertising themselves as a marketable package, chasing that dream of living on fame.

I often get up to 10 likes when I upload my cat pics with hashtags on every platform.