• 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
      8·
      2 days ago

      You’re asking the wrong person. Due either to my client, or my instance, I get, like, a 20% success rate on attaching images. Most of the time I get an error.

      On my client, there’s a little picture icon. When I click that, it lets me select a picture and, if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the stars align, the picture is embedded. Otherwise, I upload to catbox.moe and manually embed the URL. The markdown syntax for an embedded image is:

      ![](https://url.ofyour.pic/thing.jpg)
    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      If you’re using voyager you can just copy and paste and it will handle it, usually, assuming your instance has image uploads enabled.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 days ago

          I know mlem just got a new update, so I can’t comment on that BUT I can say that always come back to voyager.

          It’s as close to the Apollo Reddit client as there is (as far as I’m aware)

          • InverseNurse@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I’ve been playing around with the different options, Mlem isn’t bad. Voyager’s interface was a little all over the place for me.

    • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      I use Jerboa client on Android. It feels very much like the Reddit is Fun app.

      There are rich text buttons at the bottom of the new post field. One is a photo icon, click that and it takes you to your photo/file browser to select a pic.

      Here’s a pic I took of Earth’s bff, la Luna.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 days ago

    A bunch are usually people disagreeing and making up situations to make themselves right… i.e., you posit that the sky appeared blue when you went outside today, the replies are: not if it’s night, not during cloudy days, etc. and at least one that sounds like they disagree but are reiterating what you just said.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
      5·
      2 days ago

      I’ve made this observation before, but the funniest thing about Lemmy is that !ShowerThoughts posts elicit more controversy than !UnpopularOpinion. Like, someone posts “I love pineapple on pizza” in !ShowerThoughts, and it’s downvoted to hell with people writing long essays about how pineapple on pizza is justification for bringing back shock treatment. The same thing posted to !UnpopularOpinion brings out a mob of people saying how not unpopular an opinion that is, quoting statistics about how Hawaiian Pizza is the most popular pizza in America. It’s absolutely hilarious, and one of the few areas where the Lemmy community is truly contrarian just for contrarian’s sake.

      With the exception of populations of some instances which I won’t hex by bearishly naming, and a few individually excessive dicks (or trolls, but I think most are really just assholes), the Lemmy community tends to argue in good faith, admit when they’re wrong or have had their minds changed, and are generally polite netizens in most exchanges. But !ShowerThoughts and !UnpopularOpinion just being out the contrarian in people, for some reason.

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Unpopular opinion is just posting things that plenty of people actually agree with. Like pineapple pizza. An actual unpopular opinion would be something like agreeing with restricting abortion or something difficult that elicits very strong feelings.

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
          1·
          2 days ago

          But do we really believe the posters think what they’re posting is a popular opinion? Maybe they really think it’s unpopular, because of their IRL experiences, or what they see online.

          I think it’s because people know what’s unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don’t want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren’t really unpopular as much as maybe a minority. Like, a majority of voters voted for Trump, but thinking Kamala would have been better isn’t unpopular, it was just the minority opinion among people who got their fat assess out and voted.

          Now, saying “only white, biologically born males should be allowed to vote” would be a truly unpopular opinion, but although there are absolutely more than zero people on Lemmy who believe this, no way in hell they’re going to post that.

          So people stay with “safe” unpopular opinions, like… “NYC is the ugliest city I’ve ever seen.” Sure, you’ll learn some new insults from the responses, but nobody’s going to troll through your post history and throw it in your face in every argument, or follow you around and downvote everything you post because of it. Ok, maybe some New Yorkers will do the latter, but you know what I mean.

          Consequently, because they’re just minority and not truly unpopular, all of the people who agree come out of the woodwork, incensed that this entirely reasonable opinion would be posted a being “unpopular.”

          Thank you for coming to my Ted-L talk.

          • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            I think it’s because people know what’s unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don’t want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren’t really unpopular as much as maybe a minority.

            That’s pretty much it as far as the /comm goes.

  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
    13·
    2 days ago

    This is my primary use of reddit.

    Late night shitposting, i instantly forget, and seeing lots of interesting comments in the morning.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    I usually know if something I say will get a bunch of replies, plus I normally use Lemmy most actively in the morning and at night so it happens regularly.

  • rosco385@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    3 days ago

    My first thought is always “Must be Nicole the Fediverse chick again” 😂

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Oh I’m used to it, I know I have some controversial opinions.

    Hot take incoming: New 3DS XL is the best handheld Nintendo has ever made. Not only can it play every generation of Nintendo games prior, it’s the latest clamshell they made, and it even has super cool exclusives for it like the awesome GTA 3 and GTA VC (admittedly the VC one is a bit rough) ports.

  • crabigno@lemmy.zip
    7·
    2 days ago

    Also, what was happening in that other site many of us used to be in so interactions between the same people talking the same points were so rare?

  • hmonkey@lemy.lolEnglish
    481·
    3 days ago

    Is it normal for people to regret what they said on here? Because I tend not to change my mind from downvotes and dumb responses. I do block people though

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      3 days ago

      My only regrets are having to read stupid responses that completely missed the point of what I said because they want to argue with what they think I said.

      Occasionally I learn something new from responses, which changes my perspective.

      • Primer - Zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
        16·
        3 days ago

        I agree - A lot of people seem so prepared for someone to disagree with them that they seem to misfire on people they agree with. I try to avoid this by starting my comments with “I agree” 😊 … though even then some people still get confused 🫠

        • Bazoogle@lemmy.world
          11·
          3 days ago

          What are you talking about? You’re way off base, and completely unreasonable. It’s so typical of you people that I have a generalized baseless belief of. What about this other person that has nothing to do with this? Do you agree with them, too? I bet you also hate soldiers defending our country, and probably kittens too.

      • Devorlon@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        What a stupid comment, if you actually took the time to read and understood your replies then maybe you’d actually learn something from them, rather than just disregarding everyone who responds to you.

        /s

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      3 days ago

      Downvotes sometimes make me want to clarify what I wrote on the assumption that it got misinterpreted.

        • Albbi@lemmy.ca
          5·
          3 days ago

          I’ve seen a number of comments with a visible edit that have an even split between down and up votes. I can only assume the edit worked. Not like votes mean anything on Lemmy. It’s kinda nice not having the overall “karma” visible at all times.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          Looking through some of my controversial comments, it seems like it worked maybe 1/3 - 1/2 of the time?

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      I’ve admitted I was wrong a few times, but never from downvotes or dumb responses. You gotta cite good sources to get a reversal out of me.

    • Obinice@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 days ago

      I mean well, and I want to have hope for the future, but I’m depressed and have untreated ADHD and a desperate need for therapy, and I do worry that I’m letting all that influence how I talk to strangers online.

      I’m probably too harsh sometimes, or not harsh enough, or dumb, or stupid, etc, more often than I’d like.

      So yeah, I generally regret or worry over everything I say to everyone at some point or another. I suck xD But I’m too lonely to switch off and not talk to anyone entirely, so here we are.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      3 days ago

      I don’t want to deal with arguing especially since half the responses clearly only read the first sentence of my comment. I don’t have the energy for it. So I’m on an instance with downvotes disabled and rarely check my inbox.

      If people like my contribution they can upvote, if they don’t like it they can downvote or argue back, but I don’t have the energy to give to that, so I probably won’t see it.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      My own experience with this was posting a shower thoughts thread while quite inebriated, forgetting I’d done it then waking up with a fairly full inbox so nothing controversial or argumentative.

      • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
        5·
        3 days ago

        My experience is that I reply to a lot of things, and post very few, and in no case do I have even a vague notion about how many comments what I write will generate. I can guess the vector magnitude of up/down votes, but never the amount of interaction, where people take time to reply.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Absolutely, it is only human to make mistakes. Of course there are time where someone gives a stupid reply but there are also times where that is not the case. If it were the assumption would be that I am right about everything, which is asinine

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      3 days ago

      I I do actually second thought what I said. As I can be as wrong as any. And if I’m wrong I’m ought to change my mind.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    311·
    3 days ago

    I just assume I said something factually wrong and now dozens of helpful people are lining up to correct me.

  • DaddysLittleSlut@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 days ago

    HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BENT OVER BY BIGFOOT WHEN EXPLORING THE WOOD AND MISTAKEN FOR A MATE. THEN LEFT THERE LAYING OUT LIKE A WET SPAGHETTI NOODLE! THIS IS HOW IT FEELS DRIVING A FORD F150!