In the monthly server updates for lemmy.zip/piefed.zip there's a mantra that's repeated every month. I think it's wonderful and can be applied to the Fediverse as a whole.

If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet or merely makes things wet. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession.
(We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)

The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.

So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:

Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.

Original post by @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip

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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now I won't be posting! Hah!... oh wait...

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Gotcha!

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're not the boss of me!!!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, but I am. Your lunch break ended five minutes ago. Get back to memeing. Chop chop!

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Curses! Foiled again!

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All decent advice. Here's a thought experiment.

Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about [etc]

By the same token it would be bad to stop such a discussion, right? Right.

Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits

Therefore it would be bad to *destroy" such communities, right? Indeed.

Upvote the things you like

So, it would be bad to downvote the things you - personally, subjectively - don't like - right? It wouldn't? Why so?

Don't downvote other people's good-faith opinions. It's petty, it's juvenile, it's toxic. Even if you don't see it that way. It's precisely what will discourage the participation we all want to see.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Because the fediverse is still fairly small, downvotes stick out a lot more. A number of them I think, "How could anybody downvote that?" and just wonder because often they seem to be "I had a shitty day and I particularly don't like YOU" downvotes.

I often sort a thread by Top, and even the highest voted posts are often +(big number) -1. Because I personally do not downvote without cause, I assume they are sincere, but then it becomes a question of why, and I could never figure it out. Okay, whatever, no biggie.

But recently I had some time on my hands and I am aware of lemvotes.org, so one day I saw this again and decided to just informally start looking up these weird ass loner downvotes. Nothing sustained, just whenever one stuck out to me as being why??? I'd go and look it up. I've been doing this for roughly 2-3 months now, no schedule or commitment other than whenever I felt like it, across the board, no attention paid to community or post content (other than anything political pretty much not being worth the trouble, lol).

What I expected was a variety of usernames attached to these single downvotes.

But what I saw was a core handful of users across the board, with the occasional outlier.

Kinda pathetic, honestly.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you're saying that (you think the data says) most people here are not blanket-downvoting anything that gives them marginally bad vibes, and that the damage is being done by a busy few? Interesting if true. I too basically never downvote, on the principle that it's toxic and hostile and just not something that has a polite equivalent in person. I had assumed I was a massive outlier.

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I second that!

I'm out here trying to get a group going all by myself 😅 I'd be super grateful if someone broke the ice

https://lemmy.world/c/IndepthIndie

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Eh, I like being a hydralisk anyway.

[–] dontshoveit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Your bones are wet right now. 😂

[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sometimes I feel like I talk too much. So I do limit myself.

[–] ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Lurking is so much easier though!

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I've been posting more often lately. I'm doing my part, soldier!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Participation awards are given out here, this is just that kind of degenerate place where that kind of stuff happens. I have seen the underground storehouses filled with participation trophies made of solid platinum and gold under some of the larger instances, it is staggering. We are the deplorably thanked for participating, witness us in our moral decay.

[–] summerily@piefed.world 3 points 1 month ago

I tend to forget I actually have an account even though I follow my subscribed page. I have been only reading the internet for too many years.

[–] airbornestar@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

This post seems to work well, given that it has remained in the active tab for days now with the sheer people commenting on it.

[–] razen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How to comment when I just can't relate to things, people from my country are not on this platform so there are less relatable things here

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[–] gointhefridge@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Ok fine

[–] Gino_Pilotino667@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Water makes my eyes wet

[–] Framptonian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Trying to do my part. So happy to have this site.

[–] ksh@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Hello everyone!

[–] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OK I guess this is my time to say hi!

So, hi!

I created a community for my erotic fiction on the lemmynsfw site. This is the link: https://lemmynsfw.com/c/DominatingChloe

I would love to hear your thoughts if you are into such things.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Bruh, who starts a conversation like that? I just sat down, Sarah.

[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi. How's your day/evening been? Learn anything new today?

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I post

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