I've gotten used to this. The posts where I write several paragraphs and go kinda in-depth on a topic, and even do some research in the background on to make sure I don't talk complete nonsese routinely get no upvotes at all. The ones that rise to the top are snippy one-liner remarks that get a cheap laugh out of people, but honestly don't add anything of substance to the discussion.
Can someone give me the tl;dr version of this comment?
Max Charisma ftw!
Who cares about votes? These are really just cheap ego boosters.
It feels nice when people like a thing you made. Up votes are an easy way to see how many people like it.
You just gotta remember that they're proportional to population. 1000 upvotes on a larger community may be equivalent to 25 on a small one.
Also on Lemmy upvotes don't accumulate on your account like they do on reddit so they don't mean dick in the long run.
Cheap ego boosters are still ego boosters. Dopamine go brrrrr
I would like to see lemmy experiment with alternative ratios.
Sometimes i would like to see is ranked by “scrolled by/liked” ratio but it might be tricky to get a reliable counter.
More feasible may be a votes/subscribers ratio which would be higher if majority of a smaller space liked it but also could give exponential score if non subscribers start upvoting.
This one hurts my soul.
So true, I like tech stuff and even on Lemmy where people are more tech literate, there is mostly just porn politics and memes. I do still like putting in some high quality comments. Allows me to forget about the current state of things.
