fedi is freedom

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• happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Literally how I post. Idgaf about the algorithm or whatever.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Luckily there is no algorithm here, at least in the commonly expected sense with modern social media. You can sort and filter posts by various schemes, but it’s clearly deterministic and the post rate around here is slow enough that you can get it to consistently return the exact same result set in the exact same order multiple times.

    Your instance is not tracking what you view, hover, and click on in order to profile you to serve you more of anything else.

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• darthsundhaft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s hot. ✌️

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• Sly2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is the way.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “I do not “like” the fediverse, I LOVE it. If someone is not federated with my instance, I do not follow!”

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Based.

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• eugenia@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is not quite true. In the fediverse, you’re constantly asked to hide “trigger” posts. And you can get banned without understanding why, just because an admin might not like you. I love the fediverse, but it’s not a cure all. It’s a heaven for same-minded, but if you’re off the beaten path, things can happen to you.

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  • AviAdi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yup I have to remind people I’m not a Trump supporter why?

    Because I point out the USA government on many levels destroyed the public transportation companies of the early 1900s. It’s exhausting

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    • AdaleiM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      how on earth do people jump from “history fact” to “this guy loves trump”??? you’d think those things would be incompatible

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• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People who care about downvotes confuse me

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Need more info to calibrate that one. Top 5 things that confuse you, go!

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I post based on what makes ME happy. And maybe based on some recommendations from whatever small audience enjoys my stuff. I don’t give a shit about algorithms. If my stuff doesn’t become popular overnight, oh well. If I lose followers because I don’t post regularly, whatever. I enjoyed making it anyway and I’ll continue posting whenever I personally feel motivated to do so.

  Future archivists can find my various content and enjoy it all in one sitting, but I won’t be pressured by corporations to keep pumping out sub-par content just to keep an algorithm going so they can make ad money off me.

  Europeans got it right; work when you want to, take a few months off in the summertime to go travel/fishing/relaxing, and your business will be open whenever you’re available. That’s the philosophy I live my life by.

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  • BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I just post what makes me horny

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  • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait, do people actually fallow others on lemmy? The internet is a mysterious place sometimes…

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    • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In certain communities, some people are known for posting specific types of content regularly.

      For example, I started a series of essay-style video game reviews in a games community and they were pretty popular for a while. But I’m not updating them nearly as much as I used to, so I’ve just become another anonymous member on Lemmy now. Which is fine, I’m doing it for me, not for any Internet accolades.

      Which reminds me, I should probably make a new one of those. It’s been a while.

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• SalamiDommie@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is what I am here for. And then there are some users who want to be Reddit Mods trying to police everything they’re involved with.

  ProgLeft is as bad as the Religious Right.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t even know how to do any of that.

  I like my shitposts pure and uncut.

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• imadethis@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ya know, I thought about it for a second, and YOU may not do that stuff on the fediverse, but what’s stopping an instance from offering those services? Could the average person modding a community or even an admin really tell if the sudden up-welling of support for a post is organic or not? We’ve all seen a bot or two here on lemmy, but the other day I saw what looked like a large (25-50% of the replies) amount of bots on a post. The replies just looked… off, like slightly off topic while randomly dropping in bits of the post. So that would mean both ‘active’ and ‘hot’ can be gamed by people if they really wanted.

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