VolcanoWonderpants

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I just tested it out by typing in "Sonic the hedgehog fanart". For once, I was able to get some decent images without being bombarded by uncanny valley ai-generated images of Sonic wearing Rouge's outfit or poorly-drawn inflation art. So it seems to be off to a good start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

People probably post ragebait here too, but there's a built-in incentive on Reddit, particularly on subreddits like AITA or the Tenth Dentist, where users are encouraged to up vote the most 'interesting' posts, even if they find it offensive. Maybe the equivalents here also have this policy, but upvotes mean a lot more on Reddit than here---some subreddits require a high amount of karma to post, and posting something that's guaranteed to get passed around and upvoted a ton can get people enough karma to make many more posts, have a buffer in place in case a different comment gets downvoted, or just want a lot of karma for bragging rights. Hell, you can even monetize upvotes now, in some cases.

Here on Lemmy, upvotes mainly just pass your content around for the sake of passing it around. Maybe there's an algorithm that is more likely to push an unrelated post you made to the top, but the benefits for posting ragebait here aren't as many as they are on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a really good site too, though I suggest using fedipact.veganism.social if you're specifically interested in which instances are defederated from Threads. Some instances have hidden blocklists and won't show if they have defederated Threads if you search through defed.xyz.

For example: You can only see that retro.pizza and masto.ai have hidden blocklists if you look through defed.xyz. However, if you look on fedipact.veganism.social, you can see that retro.pizza has joined the Fedipact against Threads, while masto.ai is fully federated with them.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Was this on Reddit? I know there are some communities there that actively reward users with upvotes for ragebaitey content.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You can find servers based on Threads defederation through this site. Since you don't want anything to do with Threads, I suggest filtering by 'blocked' and 'Fedipact' I'm not sure what the difference is between the two is though, so I'd appreciate if someone would explain.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to get it to write a fanfiction about that camera falling in love with my sister's GoPro, but it didn't work. Evidently, this feature is only on the mobile app 😑 And I ain't downloading it. An article about it from CNBC

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

sniffle Beautiful 🥺

spoilerMaybe we should devote a sub to sappy edits of dark/snarky things that are brain-rottingly sweet or completely ruin the point of the original

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Man avoids LGBT (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

CW: Pretty much all the comments are vitriollically anti-LGBT. Proceed with caution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining the Mastodon-Lemmy compatibility thing. I've been confused about it for quite awhile. My alt's instance blocks a bunch of Mastodon servers, and I've always wondered why, since I almost never see any content from Mastodon users on here anyway. I always assumed it was simply a gesture for the admins show that they disapprove of that server's policies or something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I looked through several of these 'title' posts, and that does seem to be the most common use for that now that I look at it. Though I do occassionally come across stuff that you could probably come up with a decent title for, but might take longer than is worthwhile. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see now, thank you. I was just wondering. Now that I look a little more at the 'Title' posts as examples for others to look at, the more I see that it's usually for stuff that's hard to title without spoiling the content of the post (e.g. typing out the entire text of a meme would be really annoying)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Holly Horny meant to refer to a Sonic character or some other character famous for being flanderized?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just got two specific ones in my reply to @[email protected]. You can probably find a few more by going into search, filtering it to post only, and typing in 'title' as the search text. Usually I don't click into them, so I can't recall any specific ones that stuck out at me from my history, but I remember seeing some in my feed time to time, enough to make me wonder why it's relatively common.

 

I haven't spent long on Lemmy, but I see a lot of posts with their title literally being "Title". Is it meant to be a joke? Is it because the title would otherwise be a quote ripped from the image/post itself, and the posters don't want their fellow Lemmites to get bored from reading the same bit of text twice? Reason why I ask is because I recently posted something where I took the title from the body of text in the post, and I'm wondering if people find it less annoying to read a single placeholder word before clicking into the main post than to end up rereading a bit of the body later.

 

Downvoted posts count too, right?

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