cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26769543
You're not trapped here with me, I'm trapped here with you.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2026
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We're all trapped in this together.
It's been years now, and I still haven't found the exit.
Backrooms of Lemmy
Lemmingrooms
walkin the line, between beans and corn
This made us uncontrollably laugh hahaha 😂 thank you
As a Canadian on Lemmy, I keep running in to the same couple of people... Hi, lady from Calgary, and guy from Ottawa! Nice to see you again!
Well, what am I supposed to label you as? The lady got Calgary and the guy got Ottawa. Are you claiming all of Canada? Making your label "Guy from the entirety of Canada"
I am! I'm guy from all of Canada! I haven't been to Yukon.
I don't know if you mean me but I'm a guy from Ottawa and it's nice to see you too!
What's this from?
Arrested development most likely.
DOZENS +1
No sorry, we just lost old Tommy, and nobody knows if Violet survived last Friday night.
I'd argue that one of the main issues with the Fediverse is mostly just that interaction counts don't federate properly. Mastodon made some good steps there recently, but it's still not there Fediverse-wide.
My Lemmy client, for instance, says this post only has 12 comments and 71 upvotes, but if you look at it on the instance it was posted on, it's actually much more. This, of course, makes the Fediverse appear to be much less popular than it actually is. Which scares away new users immensely.
That's likely an Mbin issue. Ernst, the creator of the original product Kbin before it got forked and taken over as Mbin, made a confusing decision to have both upvotes and boosts together, and not just on the microblog (Mastodon) side with magazines but even side-by-side also on the Threadiverse with communities. So when you press the "upvote"... I forget which action even occurs - upvoting vs. boosting. Sorting by votes also gets very wonky.
And yes, all those weird design decisions very much scare people away from Mbin: the largest Mbin instance has only <500 active accounts and all Mbin instances combined have mere hundreds of users. For comparison, the flagship PieFed instance has >1k users, the NSFW one has twice that, and Lemmy.world alone has >13k!!!
Honestly I have no idea how all this works, it seems very confusing. But luckily I don't need to understand it to use it lol. I just picked the Australia zone because I live there
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If it's any consolation, there are more of us than there were at Pussolini's "state fair."
"Most of us don't usually post, but the one who does carry the entertainment for us, feel free to look wherever you like."
why are you cross-posting a year-old post?
I've seen more than a few now
Because it is fun.
I enjoyed this so much more as it was at 24 upvotes when I came upon it. Just barely qualifies for plural of dozen.
If you want, I could use my dozen alt account to boost it up ;-)
White font on grey background is not friendly.
The grey is a substitute for transparency.
Here is how the image looks on clicking it:
John, Mike, Greg, Philip, Crystal, and I try. Looking for six more to make this someone accurate. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What are we rating this blunt rotation?
Hail comrades, now show us your cat pictures.
Also if you are capitalism supporter, angry socialists will down vote you to oblivion. You're either with them or you're witch to be hunted and burned on stake
That's concentrated on .ml instances
Votes don’t do anything on the fediverse so don’t be afraid to speak your mind. If you get downvoted, nobody really cares. I’d rather be downvoted than have my post sit at 1 score with no replies. At least then I know people bothered to read it.
Tens of tens
how do we get more? i made stickers
i already handed out 50 or sth.
You should add your @ and see how many convert by giving you a follow. I heard about lemmy almost 3 years ago around the Reddit third party API controversy and made the jump. Hated the Reddit app and haven't been back.
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