Thank you for your service
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/42876254
Yes, the template is AI generated. No, i didn't find any better one. No, i didn't search for long because i'm lazy. Please just accept my gratitude.
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I may not know how to @ ya, but I've gotta call out PugJesus, thank you!
As long as people enjoy my reposts, I count my time well-spent!
I salute you fellow shitposter
We're in this together to make people's days better
Hey buddy!
Hey! My day's always brightened when I see your posts!
😃😃😃
Here you go:
I'll tag him for you so they see this.
@[email protected]
Just the alt text,
@user@instance, should do both, tag the user and direct any reader to the local copy ofinstance/u/useron their own instance.I'm saving this for later, thank you!
Have you ever enabled "always show instance"?
Yes thank that propagandist for their outstanding contribution to the neoliberal, business as usual approach to world politics!
Thanks for @[email protected] posting some of the best memes I see.
Yes, but I provide witty commentary!
And I provide... commentary!
I provide provisions. TO THE WARFRONT! MARCH!
I provide snacks.
And my axe!
A fitting meme template:
You are most welcome. Big love to my fellow comrades @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
@[email protected] sorry i missed you!
You’re good! I’m just happy to be invited ☺️☺️☺️
😃
I love you all and thank you for your service! Your posts and comments help keep this place alive and help people keep coming
That's a lovely comment thanks so much ❤️
I love the memes and the bat photos.
<3
❤️ back
<3
I need to get back to posting more.
We're just happy you're here!
But I am letting myself down ;_;
Which part of the island are you from? Love to see the representation!
Uh, oh, don't forget @[email protected] with all the superbowls
Lemmy has given to me, I give to Lemmy! 🦉
That’s what a true hero would say! Thank you so, so much!
I just mentioned you again since I made a typo at first and wasn’t sure if the mention would still work after I edited it. But it worked out—hey, better safe than sorry: credit where credit is due!
anon mate I can't believe i forgot you! Thank you for the superb owls
No worries! The focus is on the animals, not me anyway. 😉
Hey, I try to argue with at least one person a day on here! I'm doing my part
no you aren't
oh yeah? I argue with two.
Yeah? Fuck both of you.
Look at my comments and account age, lol.
Totallynotjessica, ickplant, ladybutterfly, stamets make lemmy for me. Always posting so much good stuff.
Shoutout to mia lately, violet when shes on a spree, and erotador even though shes less active now.
That's really nice to hear thanks 😊
Aww, thank you for the kind words.
People who upvote and leave comments also hold up the fediverse!
Not gonna lie, those who comment and argue and debate are heroes…
Awe shucks 😅
what i dont understand is how some of those people are posting 24/7? dont they need to sleep?
It's likely scheduled posts I do that on piefed
With my borked sleep schedule due to my borked work hours...
Bots
thats what i think also. either that or multiple people
Dunno how it works here, but back then on Diaspora there was at least one account that was maintained by multiple people.
while Lemmy scratches my post reddit itch, this is one of the down sides. Everyone goes to Reddit, despite it being an AI Bot filled shit show, so you never get the same visibility. At least around here you get a better quality of poster, and you don't need to select your words quite as much.
Search engines direct you to Reddit as a first page - even first result - choice. It's superceded Wikipedia in a lot of cases.
Which tells you organic human generated content is increasingly rare and here we are probably the last unpolluted corners of the human experience outside the non-online local experiences.
:-/ I seriously doubt that.
At some point, we'll have to find a better way of sifting the wheat from the shit. But I'd be crazy to assume bots around bouncing around the Lemmiverse pushing misinformation just like they are everywhere else.
The bots will always come. But the humans will have a fighting chance here because we have built a muscle to sniff corporate propaganda much faster than those for-profit algorithm managed anti-social media.
That’s the worst part of Reddit. The absolute toxicity and superiority complex you see in these giant subreddits. 1 wrong word and everyone comes after you based on 1000 assumptions from that 1 word.
Better quality of poster? All of these memes OP is talking are just straight from Reddit.
I mean they actually have a brain and can use context clues. There's also a rather high chance that someone you meet is an ACTUAL HUMAN.
It's not that bad, Lemmy still has a long way to go if they ever want to be something close to an alternative.
All it needs to do is be true to the Left, comrade
That's how most things work. Most effort is done by a few people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
don't stop. 🫡 (ready for more star trek/moth/bean/all of the above megamix content)
"Thanks for posting original quality project, unlike this slop I generated"
Talk about a backhanded compliment.
But that's the opposite of backhanded compliment
Frontfooted insult?
Full on slap?
I don't do memes, but I provide lots of animal pics. Mostly Sandy the Federiverse Horse and more recently, Broccoli Cheddar the Barn Cat
I love Sandy and her adventures! Looking forward to seeing more of Broccoli Cheddar.
Hellll yeah. I'll be going out to do some training with Sandy later this week. I'll make sure to get pics and vids of her and I'll try to get pics of Broccoli Cheddar if he's around when I'm there. He goes off on lil adventures and I miss him some days
I came for the Sandy I stayed for the heartwarming.
I was wondering why I kept seeing the same stuff over and over, but with this username on it. You just decide to go repost/cross-post a ton of old stuff??
If the repost keeps getting upvoted and rising to the top, then isn't that a sign that people like it?
Eh. Look at OPs history, it’s mostly just Sort by Top, and repost. From stuff barely days old to top of years old.
Gratitude is all well and good but slop is slop.
atleast he was honest abt is, slop is slop...but this one seems worthy of a pass, im not a big fan of slop either
A huuuuge thank you also to @[email protected] for all these superbowls! Your posts are a true blessing!
For me, ever since I’ve been here, all those adorable owls have always been a symbol of what’s wonderful about Lemmy.
Everyone's support and encouragement has meant a lot. If I wouldn't have become a poster here, I likely never would have pursued working with owls, but thanks to you all, I worked with a Screech Owl and 3 Great Horns yesterday, along with 4 Red-tailed Hawks, 2 Red Shouldered Hawks, and a bunch of opossums and squirrels.
You guys listening to me and encouraging me to keep sharing gave me the push to go and volunteer, and my life has been so much richer getting to work with so many amazing animals and fellow animal rescuers.
And our lives are made richer by your presence here!
Super happy for you!
I'm glad you all still enjoy what I share! I had assumed you all would have been bored ages ago. 😄
Aww, I'm so happy to hear that! I wish you all the very best, and thank you so much once again for letting us all be a part of this—even if it's just in a very small way.
If anyone is ever interested in volunteering, I can answer many of your questions! Most things you'd want to do have a very low barrier of entry.
I'm already thinking about anything more I could do. Those little creatures are so majestic and useful, and some species could use some help in my home country, too. It's truly commendable that you're standing up for them and raise awareness. We need a lot more people like you—then the world would be a much better place. But hey, you're showing us how we can all do our part.
Here in Germany, there are various professionals who are employed and mainly funded by the government, but if I ever have to deal with owls myself I'll get in touch with you right away.
I joined my local nature conservation a year ago, and you definitely played a part in that. I only provide a little financial support, but maybe I can do even more—besides following their very helpful recommendations for protecting nature (which is why I now only grow wildflowers on my balcony for example).
That is excellent what you are doing! Anything helps so much.
I don't know how things work in Germany, but I took a quick look at the references in the c/superbowl sidebar and we have 2 lists of rescues in Germany.
Link1 Link2
I pulled up a random one and checked their "Support" menu and saw volunteering right away.
(Translated)
You're the best! Unfortunately, the Rhineland isn't in reach for me, but I'll look around (nothing listed for my zip there atm). I had no idea that they were actually looking for volunteers here, too.
Thank you so much for the info. I'll check those links regularly now and get involved if something pops up that's even somewhat close to where I am. If I come across any other sites during my research that might be interesting, I'll let you know.
I help where I can!
Link1 is broken down by zip code and the second lists the cities where they are. I just picked on at random since I have no clue where you are. 🙂
I was surprised when you said there was funding, since to my knowledge no rescue gets public funds anywhere. The one I picked randomly did talk about some type federal volunteer internship, so it does sound like there is some type of public partnership there, but I don't want to give advice based on translations.
It would be exciting if you got to find something. I lucked out having a place about 20 minutes from me. We have a lot of people coming from about an hour away.
HEROES!!
ich_iel carries like one whole third of my lemmy experience and I don't even know German.
Oooh! That's interesting!
But, and this is a "just me" thing, I'll skip it because I feel that a reasonable part of the charm I feel towards ich_iel is precisely that I don't know German. :p
Hahah, I'm german and I'll check it out.
Critical support to the real MVPs
First time scrolling this morning and I went to like this before realizing I already liked it from last night before bed...
Probably my larger issue with Lemmy as a whole. I work a job that has a lot of downtime but loud environments so my ADHD ass likes to just read content and comments since I need to pay attention to the noise around me. Then I get home and watch some TV or sports on my PC's second monitor while I want to scroll content and comments (Been a forum user since I was 8 years old) and the repetition here can get a little off putting.
Don't get me wrong I love it here. Beats Reddit. But still...
I quite like that it's not an infinite firehouse of content - it means a limit to how much time I waste, unlike my Reddit days when I'd often block the site so I could get something done.
I think there's a rule that this needs to be posted every 6 months
RemindMe! 3 months
I’m doing my part 🫡
Thank you for your service to the fediverse.
I haven't seen your memes but I have certainly seen your dogs, and for that I am grateful.
Be part of the change! Lemmy wants YOU to post your memes! Doesn't matter how good or bad they are. Meme is meme.
Also comments!
I don't post much but I like engaging with people.
I just joined here :3
i dont post memes but i hope i am helping
You comment. You're adding to the fediverse <3
Where are all the edgy contrarian scorpions aggressively stinging at their ankles?
I have unending content and I block all the meme communities.
I was first introduced to Lemmy during Reddit's API fiasco back in 2023, and this exact type of post was made back then too where the entire community is held up by a very small numbers of users who post excessively. That means in 3 years, this platform hasn't grown at all. It's still stuck as a niche that most people either avoid or don't care about.
Disagree. There are far more posters that post consistently now a days. Before it really was like... 4 or 5 of us but now there's far more than that.
Kudos to all the contributors but I hope lemmy is growing by leaps and bounds.
VetOfTheSeas is half of my feed, I notice because his avatar is animated.
🎵 The Fe-di, the Fe-di 🎵 It's big, it's hea-vy, it's wood!
Does the Fedi roll down the stairs?
In fact, it does; alone, or in pairs! 💁🏿♀️
Is the Fedi great for a snack and fits on my back?
Indeed it is, and indeed it does; it even rolls over your neighbor's dog! Not only is it better than bad, I would even dare go so far as to say: it's good!
I’ll get back to it…. Eventually
Yea, I love it here
at least 1500 according to the votes!
Noo fuck AI.
That is roughly 20x more manpower than what Reddit had when it started.
I try to post more but I'm not imaginative enough to come up with ideas that often
Bro, I'm righting the most I can, being as skilled at that as I am while not just recycling comments and battling mental health out the wazoo. I think I'm a Mormon now, though, so I should be able to quit drinking like I quit meth and Benadryl.
Also while being banned on this account from like half the the communities.
I can't wait for Lemmy v0.20 so we can block this garbage.
Yeah. I hate content too.
/s
Low-quality, mindless meme content, yes. It rots your brain. You should stop consuming it.
Meanwhile you're on here doing the same thing I am.
Am I? What is it that we're both doing?
I'm not bitching about it.
That's a nonsensical response.
So you hate original content lemmyers put effort into (discussion posts, memes, photos) and praise the laziest form of content (reposting articles someone on another platform made)? Do you want lemmy to become a parasitic platform depending on content from elsewhere to sustain itself?
These are not remotely equal. Low-quality, mindless meme content rots your brain. You should stop consuming it and start downvoting it.
Calling articles "lazy content" is extremely unintelligent. I'm disgusted that you should say that.
The "original content" you refer to is often screenshots of social media posts and reposted memes.
This is such a bizarre thing to say. Reddit and Lemmy are link/news aggregators. Their whole benefit is being a single site where people can share & discuss news, instead of having to visit a dozen different websites every day. Reddit started to promote low-quality meme content, which massively degraded the quality of the platform. It's extremely disappointing to see people on Lemmy promoting it as well.
Reposts, not articles themselves. Reposting someone else's writings from the web as a link is objectively low-effort work that could be handled by a dozen-line script.
Maybe they started as such, but now it's a small part of their scope. I don't perceive them as such, rather as a general-purpose forum. I go to Lemmy/Reddit to ask a question (e.g. how to repair a thing), voice an opinion, start a debate, talk about stuff, read comics, etc. I don't recall following a single community that is about link aggregation.
No no no you don't get it. Lemmy should be what THEY want it to be, not what everyone on Lemmy collectively makes it. Anything otherwise is wrong simply because one bloke online is very certain it rots your brain.
QED
/s
I don't know what you're referring to. Copy-pasting content instead of linking directly to the source is frowned on for numerous reasons.
Sure, that's a secondary and perfectly valid use. The OP of this thread posted an image promoting memes. That is what I criticized.
Secondary use according to whom? Who made you the arbiter of Lemmy's 'one true purpose?'
Pasting a link is even easier than pasting text.
So, no more memes on /c/[email protected]?
Dude just make your own space and moderate it accordingly. It will be empty, but at least you'll be happy.
No thanks. All I need to do is wait for the next Lemmy update. Then I'll be able to block all the low-quality garbage.
That article was so conflated and entirely waffle, I couldn't read it. It doesn't offer science behind brain rot. I think it's ok for you to have an opinion for yourself on what brain rot is, absolutely, but when you start going warmonger on it, you should really make sure you have more science to give you an understanding and ability to communicate your opinions with more clarity.
There is science out there, but not in the way you might be thinking, based on some of your opinions expressed here. Brain rot isn't going to be able to be avoided by curating the content, the effect of disassociation is caused by distraction, it could be argued any content caused that disassociative effect, which essentially sends your brain into a form of fight or flight, causing it to feel like it's not safe to be here,( if I have to disassociate).
I don't have any great articles to link at this time. But I would suggest it's a personal balance thing. Taking the time to limit the time you spend on the internet, yourself personally, and just taking a moment to exist, just breathe and be, where you are, right now.
The more engaging and interesting posts will naturally float to the top. Maybe, you need to change your settings, or the app you use to engage if you are getting fed with everything as its first posted. I noticed an entirely different experience going from boost to voyager app.
This place isn't about one person deciding for everyone, what is and should be, the antithesis of that is why this place exists, and I'm sure you're noticing, you don't have many people who agree with you. Maybe Either your delivery needs to change, when discussing your opinion, or your opinion itself, might need some expansion and nuance.
This is not true. We have a decade of evidence showing that what floats to the top is the easiest to digest content - meme images.
Yep. Most people are unintelligent and thus love their low-quality content. Thankfully, the Lemmy devs decided to build a filter that's coming with the next update.