…and do you think that you posting it has a positive, neutral or negative effect on the world?
By content I mean what ever you’re posting online. The pictures you post on Instagram/Pixelfed or messages you’re writing on Lemmy, YouTube comment section, Facebook and so on.
If you look back at what you have posted in the past year for example, do you consider it to be the kind of content that you would gladly consume if it was coming from someone else? If not, then why are you posting it in the first place?
Yes. If I can enjoy other people’s corny jokes and snarky comments, I would probably like my own too.
My 'content ’ is almost entirely dumb comments that are often barely related to the post. Definitely not adding to the world, but hopefully no one takes it seriously enough for it to have any negative impact other than just wasted space.
hopefully no one takes it seriously enough for it to have any negative impact
There is always one, and their goal always seems to be to frustrate you into engaging with them
Lemmy has actually made me more thoughtful about this. Like a lot of people here, I was previously on reddit, where most interactions were pretty toxic. Now I do try to think about how my contributions make the platform better or more useful for others.
I was a “top 1% poster” on reddit (according to them), but it was mostly garbage and reposts and “zingers” so even though it got a lot of updoots, it was not really helpful to people. There were some communities that were exceptions, where I put a lot of effort, research, etc., but they were more niche.
If it’s any consolation, reddit sort of trains you to post things like that because that’s what the masses like and recognize the most.
I only post links on the one place I mod on lemmy that interests me. Occasional links elsewhere if theyre relevant.
My commentary I just post. If folks like it, great, if they hate it, great. There’s no karma here so idgaf.
There’s no karma here so idgaf.
What does karma have to do with it? Worthless internet points shouldn’t affect the way you communicate if you’re an honest person. You make it sound like you used to either self-censor when you know your views to be unpopular or alternatively say things you don’t actually believe in just for the upvotes.
Karma matters early on posting on reddit cuz many subreddits blocked negative karma posters via automod. Later it became more granular with subreddit specific karma. After several years there I had 6 digit karma spread across all my regular haunts which granted me a degree of freedom to get downvoted wherever cuz I had stockpiles to dip into.
On lemmy that doesn’t apply.
The first thing you learn when you start using Reddit is that karma matters. Lots of communities have a minimum. There are communities dedicated to building karma. There are secret clubs for high karma earners.
It is the great unspoken secret that everyone knows.
The first thing you’ll learn when you start using Reddit is that karma matters.
To an extent, but not really that great of one. Once you’re past like… a hundred, you’re fine basically everywhere of note.
Lots of communities have a minimum.
Basically every community of note that I modded did. Kept out a lot of shitters. Sure some regular folks might’ve gotten hit in the crossfire but omelettes, eggs, and nothing better from the admin side to stop the previously mentioned shitters.
There are communities dedicated to building karma.
We’d ban people who used those ngl, cuz guess who else used those subs?
There are secret clubs for high karma earners.
They aren’t as interesting as you might think. Source: Was in several. Lot of similar names shooting the shit. Secret mod subs were like that too tbh.
All true.
Why don’t communities on Lemmy require “karma” minimums? Because admins remove bots and trolls. If reddit were not a completely toxic site, they could have done so as well.
Reddit uses karma as an underlying status symbol and reinforces it because it is driven by profit and “engagement.” It’s the same with likes on Meta platforms, subscribers/followers on other platforms… the gamification of social interaction. It’s one part of social media that causes the kinds of harms we’ve been talking about here.
Why don’t communities on Lemmy require “karma” minimums? Because admins remove bots and trolls. If reddit were not a completely toxic site, they could have done so as well.
- From a technical standpoint: There’s no karma, just tracking amounts of posts/comments.
- There’s no automod to enforce it (Well maybe idk, not integrated I know that much.).
- There’s also the fact that the entirety of of the lemmy fediverse probably gets less posts overall each day then r/funny gets in just spam. It’s really easy to manually boop 5-10 spammers in a given day. 5-10,000 though? Not happening. Top that off with even a small percentage who might be trying to dodge technical hurdles put in their way? Lot harder.
I already do that for nostalgia and memories, I like going through my camera roll every so often despite the fact I don’t take many pictures.
I post videos of an incredibly niche hobby. I cut my videos to what I think is interesting and I will go back and watch them, but not many other people make videos like mine so I don’t watch many others. Getting video is difficult so a lot doesn’t turn out well. It’s also much more fun in person.
Arguably, if you’re producing your own content then you’re consuming it too. It takes a lot of watch and/or listen multiple times to produce a final product which means you’re more than consuming it.
I lose count of how many times I replay a given animation shot before I consider it final. Probably 300 or 400
Lol, I only comment on lemmy. No insta, tiktok, Facebook, LinkedIn, pixelfed, YouTube or anything.
I also read my own comments so I really do consume my own content and circlejerk my own opinion.
There is content I’d “create” which is shitpost reposting and I’d gladly consume it. The more the better.
Yes. Positive. It won’t be a big difference but everything matters in its own small way. Posts that piss off dozens of people can still have one person who loves your perspective. That one person can be you. Ignore the haters.
If it pisses off dozens of people but there’s one person loving it, wouldn’t it still be accurate to say that the effect is net-negative?
No because we ignore the haters.
Do you apply that logic to the people posting content that pisses you off as well?
Yes, ignore the ragebait.
Yeah, block and move on.
I have made YouTube videos in the past when I was too young to be allowed on the site, looking back at them, it’s safe to say that I’m glad I deleted them when I had the chance (even from the device that recorded them) because I’ve never cringed this hard at my own stuff before.
Maybe I could do it again once I’m good enough at video editing and humor.
I occasionally go through my old comments to see how things got received, see if I could improve my wording, things like that. General communications skill polishing. It’s not consuming as much as critically reviewing, but whatever.
Since I’m adding engagement on lemmy, and I do put some effort in to be amusing or informative or whatever (usually anyway), yes I do feel like I am helping. If I was on reddit or something, not so much.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has ever done that! Haha
I don’t consciously “produce” any “content”, and calling it “consuming” seems gross and shallow.
It’s the bland, neutral and “scientific” way of describing an activity. We’re all effectively content creators here where as lurkers only consume.
I do. I post generated pictures in the community that is set aside for them. I post the ones I enjoyed, so I’ve already consumed the content.
Often times I’ll add to the traffic of the site in comments.
Sure. Heck, occasionally I do actually do that, like if I post a piece of information that I’ve looked up and then refer back to it later.
Nah. I am wayyy too stupid. I would just start and then leave.
