• rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    7 days ago

    My first thought is always “Must be Nicole the Fediverse chick again” 😂

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 days ago

    A bunch are usually people disagreeing and making up situations to make themselves right… i.e., you posit that the sky appeared blue when you went outside today, the replies are: not if it’s night, not during cloudy days, etc. and at least one that sounds like they disagree but are reiterating what you just said.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
      5·
      6 days ago

      I’ve made this observation before, but the funniest thing about Lemmy is that !ShowerThoughts posts elicit more controversy than !UnpopularOpinion. Like, someone posts “I love pineapple on pizza” in !ShowerThoughts, and it’s downvoted to hell with people writing long essays about how pineapple on pizza is justification for bringing back shock treatment. The same thing posted to !UnpopularOpinion brings out a mob of people saying how not unpopular an opinion that is, quoting statistics about how Hawaiian Pizza is the most popular pizza in America. It’s absolutely hilarious, and one of the few areas where the Lemmy community is truly contrarian just for contrarian’s sake.

      With the exception of populations of some instances which I won’t hex by bearishly naming, and a few individually excessive dicks (or trolls, but I think most are really just assholes), the Lemmy community tends to argue in good faith, admit when they’re wrong or have had their minds changed, and are generally polite netizens in most exchanges. But !ShowerThoughts and !UnpopularOpinion just being out the contrarian in people, for some reason.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 days ago

        Unpopular opinion is just posting things that plenty of people actually agree with. Like pineapple pizza. An actual unpopular opinion would be something like agreeing with restricting abortion or something difficult that elicits very strong feelings.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
          1·
          6 days ago

          But do we really believe the posters think what they’re posting is a popular opinion? Maybe they really think it’s unpopular, because of their IRL experiences, or what they see online.

          I think it’s because people know what’s unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don’t want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren’t really unpopular as much as maybe a minority. Like, a majority of voters voted for Trump, but thinking Kamala would have been better isn’t unpopular, it was just the minority opinion among people who got their fat assess out and voted.

          Now, saying “only white, biologically born males should be allowed to vote” would be a truly unpopular opinion, but although there are absolutely more than zero people on Lemmy who believe this, no way in hell they’re going to post that.

          So people stay with “safe” unpopular opinions, like… “NYC is the ugliest city I’ve ever seen.” Sure, you’ll learn some new insults from the responses, but nobody’s going to troll through your post history and throw it in your face in every argument, or follow you around and downvote everything you post because of it. Ok, maybe some New Yorkers will do the latter, but you know what I mean.

          Consequently, because they’re just minority and not truly unpopular, all of the people who agree come out of the woodwork, incensed that this entirely reasonable opinion would be posted a being “unpopular.”

          Thank you for coming to my Ted-L talk.

          • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 days ago

            I think it’s because people know what’s unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don’t want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren’t really unpopular as much as maybe a minority.

            That’s pretty much it as far as the /comm goes.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
      8·
      6 days ago

      You’re asking the wrong person. Due either to my client, or my instance, I get, like, a 20% success rate on attaching images. Most of the time I get an error.

      On my client, there’s a little picture icon. When I click that, it lets me select a picture and, if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the stars align, the picture is embedded. Otherwise, I upload to catbox.moe and manually embed the URL. The markdown syntax for an embedded image is:

      ![](https://url.ofyour.pic/thing.jpg)
    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 days ago

      If you’re using voyager you can just copy and paste and it will handle it, usually, assuming your instance has image uploads enabled.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          6 days ago

          I know mlem just got a new update, so I can’t comment on that BUT I can say that always come back to voyager.

          It’s as close to the Apollo Reddit client as there is (as far as I’m aware)

          • InverseNurse@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            I’ve been playing around with the different options, Mlem isn’t bad. Voyager’s interface was a little all over the place for me.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      I use Jerboa client on Android. It feels very much like the Reddit is Fun app.

      There are rich text buttons at the bottom of the new post field. One is a photo icon, click that and it takes you to your photo/file browser to select a pic.

      Here’s a pic I took of Earth’s bff, la Luna.

  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
    13·
    6 days ago

    This is my primary use of reddit.

    Late night shitposting, i instantly forget, and seeing lots of interesting comments in the morning.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    Most of the time I know exactly what I’m getting if I see more than maybe 3+ comments. Usually it’s me saying something anti-communist, something on brand enough for me.

  • DaddysLittleSlut@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 days ago

    HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BENT OVER BY BIGFOOT WHEN EXPLORING THE WOOD AND MISTAKEN FOR A MATE. THEN LEFT THERE LAYING OUT LIKE A WET SPAGHETTI NOODLE! THIS IS HOW IT FEELS DRIVING A FORD F150!

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    123·
    7 days ago

    Half the time you just have to say “Fuck Tankies” or “Vote DNC” and you’ll get 4, 10, or even 20 of the most cookie cutter responses you’ve ever seen in your life.

  • crabigno@lemmy.zip
    7·
    6 days ago

    Also, what was happening in that other site many of us used to be in so interactions between the same people talking the same points were so rare?

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
      61·
      7 days ago

      you kicked the .ml hornet nest, didn’t you?

      here’s some ointment, now take your medicine and join the rest of the lemmies

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 days ago

        Hornets? More like gnats or midges. Worst case, they tickle your skin a little or maybe you breath one in and cough it out onto the floor. They certainly do not sting. You can only even see them in the right light.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
          11·
          6 days ago

          Some people take the validation of others quite seriously. Internet points, for them, are not at all fake - it’s a measure of their worth.

          I’m not a psychiatrist, so I can’t say whether this is healthy, but I’d guess not of it’s causing them angst about something that has no direct effect on the base 3 levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.