Would you consume your own content?

olafurp , 2 days ago

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.

0x30507DE , 3 days ago

Do repos on GitHub and assorted messages on text-based communication platforms count as content? Because if that's the case, then all the time, because I generally write stuff down in case I proceed to forget exactly what that function did or why I calculated this bypass coefficient like this or why for the love of fuck does vivado keep reverting to incremental synthesis and how did I fix it last time aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

As for if my random technical nonsense has any bearing on the world, not really, outside of maaaybe the demoscene if the SID stuff works out, and the few people who like reading my ramblings for some reason.

Hadriscus , 2 days ago

what's incremental synthesis ?

0x30507DE , 2 days ago

Aa far as I'm aware, incremental synthesis is vivado trying to build a new FPGA bitstream by modifying a snapshot of the previous build, to ostensibly save time. Because the SID FPGA implementation is a relatively small part of the MEGA65 core, it really likes to forget to add any changes I make, especially related to timing optimization (it took me so long to figure out it had re-enabled itself, after disabling it my total negative slack was cut in half due to it finally registering all the pipelining and other optimization). I've also had vivado outright lock up with some cases.

Hadriscus , 2 days ago

Thanks, that clears it up

Hadriscus , 2 days ago

Just joking, I love that you explained further but to be honest I still have no idea what is going on, haha. The bit about "modifying a snapshot of the previous build" sounds like the idea behind binary diffing?

Ok, I looked up Vivado and now I have a better idea. A field very alien to me but fascinating to hear about

WindyRebel , 3 days ago

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.

Hadriscus , 2 days ago

I lose count of how many times I replay a given animation shot before I consider it final. Probably 300 or 400

MajorHavoc , 4 days ago

My comments are pure Internet gold. I'm actually only here to read my own comments. It helps me remember how brilliant and humble I am.

My posts help people discover MineTest. It's pretty great, and it's free.

tal , 3 days ago

and open-source.

MajorHavoc , 3 days ago

True. I don't post the license prominently, but my comments are Creative Commons, Attribution, Share Alike

Okay, I'm actually kidding about misunderstanding which bit of my comment your reply was to.

Yes, it's great that MineTest is open source! And the mod community is impressive.

PlexSheep , 3 days ago

What is minetest?

MajorHavoc , 3 days ago

MineTest is an open source game engine that allows running various open source Minecraft clones.

vaionko , 3 days ago

You actually did reminde me to try minetest again right now! I tried it last like a decade ago and been meaning to try again

AgentGrimstone , 3 days ago

Yes. If I can enjoy other people's corny jokes and snarky comments, I would probably like my own too.

HobbitFoot , 3 days ago

Generally yes. If I didn't want it, I wouldn't post it.

kionite231 , 3 days ago

Should not it be "I would not have posted it?"

I am confused because my english isn't good

otp , 3 days ago

Nope, those mean different things!

If I didn't like it, I wouldn't post it

Means (or implies)...

"I didn't like it, so I won't post it", but it's phrased as a conditional statement.

It also means that it's hypothetical -- nothing was posted!

But...

If I didn't like it, I wouldn't have posted it

Means (or implies)...

"I like it, so I posted it", again phrased as a conditional statement.

It also means that the thing actually happened (because the commenter liked it).

So they have similar, but different meanings. The key difference is whether the commenter is saying they have already posted something or not. One is hypothetical, and the other is more of a reflection of something that did happen.

Also, I think this part of your comment is incorrect.

Should not it be

This should be...

Shouldn't it be

(This is what people say probably 99% of the time)

Or

Should it not be

(This is less common and more formal)

And yes, I know that it looks like the "not" should be directly after the "should" because of "shouldn't", but it doesn't happen that way. I think this happens when forming a question with conditional verbs (should/would/could), but I have no idea why.

As I'm sure you know, English is crazy. Sorry about that. Hope this helps!

kionite231 , 3 days ago

Thank you very much for the in depth explanation.

Thorny_Insight OP , 4 days ago

What made me think about this is my girlfriend, who is quite vocal about the harms social media can have on the mental health of young girls, especially when influencers post heavily edited photos of themselves and their lives, which for the most part are fake.

However, she's active on social media as well, and being quite an attractive woman, she seems oblivious to what I consider a factual statement: her own content is also causing the same kind of concerns for other women who are not as genetically blessed as she is. What she's posting is not fake, but it is heavily curated nonetheless. She obviously knows this herself, but do her followers?

I don't personally follow her social media, but I'd be willing to bet she hasn't posted about being sick for a week and not taking a shower for four days. I don't mean that as a criticism per se, but I think it highlights how little we think about the effect our own content has on others while still being quick to judge others for what they post.

Vanth , 3 days ago

"She's hot, but really ought to keep it on the DL for me to enjoy and no one else to see because think of the children".

What a weird little humble brag while also putting down your girlfriend and blaming her for broader society's behavior. If she's not lying, advocating for unhealthy habits or trends, encouraging parasocial relationships, or spreading misinformation, she's not the problem.

Thorny_Insight OP , 3 days ago

What's up with the quotation marks when you just came up with that "quote" yourself? I don't feel the need to defend views I don't hold.

gedaliyah , 3 days ago

But if you don't thoughtfully respond to every strawman, then the internet WINS!

Now what were we talking about? Something about how content impacts us or what?

Carrolade , 3 days ago

If you look at the Trump candidacy and things like qanon, it'd be hard to argue that the internet isn't making inroads. My generation let this go on for long enough, it's not about the lulz anymore. Lots of people are getting hurt, and it can still get worse.

otp , 3 days ago

I hope that's not the only lens you see the world through. I don't think anybody else saw that comment the way you did.

Vanth , 3 days ago

Multiple upvotes on my comment indicates I'm not the only one tired of Boomer "shit on my partner" humor.

Stern , 4 days ago

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.

Thorny_Insight OP , 3 days ago

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.

Stern , 3 days ago

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.

gedaliyah , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

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.

Stern , 3 days ago

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.

gedaliyah , 3 days ago

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.

Stern , 3 days ago

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.

1. From a technical standpoint: There's no karma, just tracking amounts of posts/comments.
2. There's no automod to enforce it (Well maybe idk, not integrated I know that much.).
3. 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.

Carrolade , 3 days ago

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.

otp , 3 days ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has ever done that! Haha

Resol , 3 days ago

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.

Today , 3 days ago

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.

datavoid , 3 days ago

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

Usernameblankface , 3 days ago

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.

ripcord , 3 days ago

I don't consciously "produce" any "content", and calling it "consuming" seems gross and shallow.

Thorny_Insight OP , 3 days ago

It's the bland, neutral and "scientific" way of describing an activity. We're all effectively content creators here where as lurkers only consume.

ipkpjersi , 3 days ago

Yes, I would, and I do. I've made videos etc that I've enjoyed making and enjoyed watching, same with pictures etc.

IMongoose , 3 days ago

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.