Never noticed that phenomenon anywhere else

Did you blur out his titties or what?

atlas titan titties.
Them Titan titties are notoriously seductive. Can't have the horses sppoked.

Are Atlas' nips blurred? C'mon let me see the skittles don't be g greedy

Hips and nips, otherwise I'm not eating.
- Gotta make it sexy!

Who censored the beautiful nipnips of poor ~~Sisyphus~~Atlas?

If female nipples are still considered obscene, the same rules should apply to everyone ¯(ツ)_/¯
- I feel like the argument "If some people are wronged, everyone should be wronged!" has some flaws.
- Yeah, always better if all equally lose, instead of letting others win. Our society is doomed with a mindset like this.
- You missed a great opportunity for an "Atlas shrugged" quip.
Isn't that Atlas?
- You’re right.
don’t want to scare the horses
The one who was seeking for your engagement.
No worries: this is Atlas. Ssyphus is not censored

The nipples are censored. Does this imply they're girlboobs?

I had a great Sissy-phus joke lined up until I realized that's probably Atlas
- Missed opportunity with an At-lass pun
insert right wing ramble about the left making everything trans

Thank my lucky tuppence that those smashing knockers are pixelated or I would've spaffed right all over bloody Trafalgar Square and what a kerfuffle that would have been

I wonder if the internet culture of sharing has died off somewhat. Old guy here. Are people are so used to consuming they forget about sharing? Or maybe it's just the type of person who uses the internet today is inherently more consumer then early adopters?

In my day a big appeal of the internet was to share things. But now it is to consume things.

When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.
Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with "I know you are but what am I" or "that's what your mom told me last night", and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.
It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.
A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it's a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).
- That is a fantastic article, thank you. I don't know if there is a way around the ennui engine, not without massive systemic changes; seems like it's part of human nature. It seems pretty rational too, from an animal-brain point of view ... to take a sure win right now instead of a maybe-win later.
  It's unfortunate that this feeds so many people's anger cycle. I wonder if that's cultural.

4.8K posts in 2 years… I’m doing my part!

Loving your posts ickplant
- Thank you!
You really are, i love your posts thank you for continually making my day a little brighter
- Thank you! I love knowing that it brightens your day, that’s exactly why I do it.
You are an animal content machine! If I see an animal that I didn't post, I usually expect to see your name under it. 😄
- Thanks! I really try, and I love that Lemmy appreciates all the cuteness.
Truly. When I see a cute animal pic, I'm surprised if you haven't posted it. Thanks for your work, it makes Lemmy a lot more enjoyable!
- Aww, thanks! I truly enjoy posting animal pics, and it’s nice to know it brings joy to others.
I recognized you instantly
Cheers!
Thanks for posting!
Me too, thanks, but I wouldn't call the shitpost/meme communities I post to small
- I say that still counts. Most of mine are in tiny animal communities, and I really enjoy curating animal pics. It’s become a hobby for sure.

Kinda funny; here on Lemmy they're appreciated, while on Reddit we hated "power users" with a passion.

That said, I really do feel like the posters on Lemmy are trying their very best to provide interesting content, and they do this by fostering their chosen communities by hand. I'm a fan.

Here on Lemmy we know there's no financial incentive, no perverse conflict of interests - just people who cared enough to build the infrastructure, maintain it, and provide service for others.
Feels nice for sure.
Yeah I had a realization that a lot of the things that used to bother me on reddit don't worry me as much here. Something is fundamentally working better but I'm not sure what it is yet.
- $$$
I wouldn't say we appreciate all of them. Just depends on how they do it. If you post frequently that's great. If you dump a dozen posts in under an hour on the other hand I think you're an asshole. All it does is drown out communities. Leaves them dead.
On reddit there were powermods, who manipulate hundreds of subs by removing posts that made good karma and then reposting them themselves and removing any kind of unwanted discussion (backed by the admins).
On the fediverse, we have power users that seem to post a lot, but it's mostly because nobody else wants to post for some reason (not counting news comms that use bots or scripted users to automatically post).
Sometimes a mod powertrips or we learn that someone is trying to manipulate a comm, so usually the instance owners just kick then out... And if it turns out they are backed by the owner, then people call it out and usually the instance gets defederated.
There are consequences in the fediverse, so mods/owners are usually more careful about it and the power posters don't go around removing posts to pass then as their own to farm karma.

Do tell us!(Including me, when possible) But no guys, keep posting USA political news, political memes, what Trump said and downvote any athletic, music and ASMR post just because it's not about USA or political, and then complain how niche communities are dead.
\ Don't forget to downvote this comment too, it's not political.

People should just block communities they don't care about instead of downvoting posts from those communities in the all feed.
- That's a good example! I have done so with almost all USA political communities, and now when I browser all I discover more stuff.
Are people really suppressing posts on niche communities like this? I almost exclusively sort by post age or engagement rather than votes, and I'm on an instance that doesn't support downvoting. Downvoting isn't something I've thought about since my Reddit days.
- Always speaking from my point of view and what I have seen during my time on Lemmy. I have see many posts about niche communities being dead, and I seen lots of posts getting downvoted right away, including my posts. Users wanted to a change from Reddit, yet they replacate it.

Shout out to anon[some numbers] over at Supurbowl, literally bringing cute owls to everyone alone!

That would be anon6789@lemmy.world and seconded!
- That's meeeeeee! I always feel unworthy when you guys mention me, but I love that you have a fun time talking about grumpy birds with me.
I get so overjoyed when you guys are able to post sightings of your own, and Lady Butterfly's Medieval owls the last couple weeks have been a nice addition as well.

Remember FlyingSquid?

It's damn hard to get other people to post. Every so often I like to go around and find smaller communities to share content to.

3K+ comments in my two years on Lemmy. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.
- Nice! Commenting is the hardest part and the most vital to community.
  I'm nearing half that on this 3 month old account, I'd hate to think what my total has been over all instances these past 2 years.
Reddit still has an absolute stranglehold on !leagueoflegends@lemmy.world
Maybe I should take this opportunity to move the community over to piefed.
- It's tough because users here naturally use Linux more often which is incompatible with league. I stopped playing this season since I'm on Linux now, but haven't really looked back.
- The game seems much less active nowadays, to be honest.
  https://playercounter.com/league-of-legends/
What happened to the potential consolidation between !world@quokk.au and !globalnews@lemmy.zip?

Why did they censor Sisyphus's nipples

Coz they've been slapped onto Atlas

Might I invite everyone to use the Scaled sorting algorithm to see more of what the small communities have to offer! To avoid the firehose, you can default your feed to Subscribed and then liberally sub to the communities you like or might like. Then once a day or so switch to All+Scaled or All+Top Day to see what you might have missed and perhaps make some new community subs.

I never got into the fediverse when I first made this account because everything seemed to be from a few communities. Used Scaled this time and it's so much better!
- I've been using it as default ever since its introduction along with a large subscribed list and it's been great. All+Scaled for discovery of new community discovery, All+Top Day for checking on what Lemmy was on about today.
  You can set whatever sort and feed defaults you like so that you don't have to set it every time you visit.

me propping up the comment section

That Lady Butterfly

Also everything she posts is nice.
- Thanks sad detective, I like bringing wholesome cheer to people's lives

Well, that does it. I'm starting an indie music community.

We already sort of have a couple but most of what's on there is people posting songs and not getting any comments. I'll try to get that oldschool fanclub vibe going. That deep cut bootleg vibe.

EDIT: Done it. And now for a lifetime of posting stuff and hoping someone notices lol

You should advertise it on newcommunities@lemmy.world and communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- Thank you! That's super helpful! I will as soon as I make a few posts! :)

Why is everyone looking at me!

Thank you for your service:-)
Oh look, now we are talking with you too ☺️
👁️
🤗

!fedigrow@lemmy.zip for people interested to see how it is to grow a community, week after week

You do a lot of great work as a poster and as a facilitator with getting the word out on a lot of things. You stepping up to do this macro level community building I think has really bolstered a lot of Fedi content, and I feel that's crucial to all of us having continued success as a platform.
- Thank you for your kind words, and thank you for your continuous work on !superbowl@lemmy.world

Such a wholesome thread. 🥰

Never noticed that phenomenon anywhere else

Most of us (posters, commenters, voters and lurkers) know why we're here and why we need to do the work. We've been on so many platforms and gotten shafted. Many of us now know why and what needs to be done to avoid that for the long haul.

Lurkers, step up your voting duties!

thank you @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 🫡

It is an honour and a privilege 🫡

Please help those people out if you enjoy the communities!!

@TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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👁️👁️

I've been trying to keep !nebula@lemmy.world alive but it only has 356 members — if you use nebula or you watch any YouTubers like jet lag: the game, Todd in the shadows, any number of Breadtubers, it would be great to have more posters over there! You don't necessarily need the streaming service since most of the content goes on YouTube as well.

!taskmaster@feddit.uk is small as well but should hopefully be a bit busier with the new series starting tonight, it also has a user pretty much single handedly keeping it alive with posts from the official YouTube channel but it's still a bit quiet for comments.

I’ve been trying to keep !nebula@lemmy.world alive but it only has 356 members
omg I had no idea! I was doing that early on but I got tired of it and stopped checking. Looking forward to the new Jet Lag season!
- Looking forward to the new Jet Lag season!
  Same! Three teams of two will be an interesting change.
  I didn't know there was a Lemmy community for nebula.

o7

My posts have almost exclusively become pics of my horse lmao. But I do try to make the posts regular to do my part.

A lot of those types are just reposting reddit’s top content. Or copying from facebook.

I am guilty of this, mostly because if I have to repost memes from somewhere, I'd rather it be somewhere off the fediverse so people don't see double. It would be hard work to only post oc, and my oc isn't always received as well as reposts. I personally aim for there to be regular posts by someone in the communities I post in, and collecting reposts allows me to build a backlog I could never build with oc alone.
Besides, I don't believe in meme ownership unless it took a significant amount of artistic talent to create. Since that includes none of my posts, I do onto others as I want done onto me.
on the bright side, now I don't have to look at reddit or facebook.
besides, that's why I like fedimemes, bc it's usually fediverse-original.
I used to be critical of this but I've come around because:
Creating memes takes ideas/time.
My ideas are wacky and untested.
So I might spend 20-60 minutes making something only for people to hate it. (This happened a lot more often in the beginning because I was bad and my ideas took a lot of photo editing.) I still make memes when I think the idea is worth it. Of course, I could just pander to what I think people want to hear, but I make memes for more organic reasons than that.
I mainly wish people would add a little something if they did that. Some kind of context, or a particular bit of the articles they share that makes it significant to them, etc. Basically anything that would make it seem like a human posted and not a repost bot.
I pull a lot of my content from Facebook since most sources are photography hobbyists and charities, which just use that as a free quick and easy platform to reach the most eyes so they can focus on making content. But I try to contextualize what is going on in photos, can provide background to the species or the procedure being done, and answer any questions about things, which I feel is a good value add service by me sharing it here.
I will post things from my personal work too, but the animal thing isn't my day job, so other than my weekly clinic shift or vacations, there's only so many opportunities I get to shoot my own owl photos! 😜 But I still get to bring a lot of daily joy to people that won't touch those other platforms, and I add a lot of research and experience they wouldn't get by going to the original source.
There is still use being a straight content curator, but I think it's just really going the extra mile by adding something to it yourself that can enhance it.