No kidding. However I did sort of forget what the conversation was about.

I recogize you

Why are you being downvoted? Is it not obvious enough that your comment was sarcasm?

I’d be interested in seeing, for example, from which instances the voters are distributed.

That would be interesting indeed! I heard that if one hosts their own Lemmy instance, they can see who voted on every post. Don’t have that for now though.

I kind of see your point. The information we have is not sufficient, and we cannot really know how much of the Lemmy userbase cares about this issue.

[…] is that most votes happen because of a title. People scroll past, see a title, and vote based on that.

Wow, now that I think of it, that is indeed how I vote most of the time.

Thanks, I will seriously consider opening a community.

The solution is to build up more attractive alternatives of those communities elsewhere, not endlessly campaign the existing users to just drop them.

Agreed. Maybe I should try creating and managing a community some day. (hopefully this didn’t come off as sarcastic)

The current fedidb stats, to me, state that 488 people is, colloquially speaking, nobody.

This is a wildly misleading and unfair comparison. Let’s take the Trump verdict as an example. The most upvoted post about this had ~2700 upvotes. But that’s only 6% of the MAU! Is that “nobody”? Obviously not. 2k upvotes is a huge deal on a rather small community like Lemmy. How often do you see posts with more than 3k upvotes?

~500 upvotes is already a moderately large number of upvotes. You need to compare this number with how many upvotes a post typically gets.

Usually I’d agree with this, but on this post, the upvote count is a direct representation of how many people care about this issue (out of the number of users who saw this post). That is meaningful.

Dude, this is common fucking knowledge, and nobody cares

The 730 people who upvoted this post do care.

The problem is that lemmy.ml hosts too many popular communities. There are people who want them gone from their feeds but also don’t want their Lemmy experience to become empty and boring.

wow, you can see who up/downvoted a post? how do I do that?

I love the smell of basements. The humidity and the green, decades old moss on the wall gives off this refreshing yet mature scent. As a plus, it’s also often cooler than the air at ground level. Mmmm.

Gee, I can do this too! I’ve tried explaining it to others before but only one person ever got it

I never knew the words to this melody in its entirety. I only knew it as da dadada da-da drunken sailor.

No, it’s the other way around. 蚤 means flea and 市 means market. フリーマーケット sounds like flea market.

I interpreted the to eat in this post rather broadly as to consume.

hi fellow soy milk enjoyer. I named this puppy soy milk too

soy milk

(kinda fitting actually)

I installed it one week ago after getting a new Pixel 8. Loving it so far.

I also thought it was a typo for okay.

Pretty sure there’s no way my government would allow it. Sure, secretly kidnapping me might not be too difficult, but my government would never officially give permission to the CCP police to have a talk with me (as the Australian govt. did in this article). I live in Taiwan btw.