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Top posts on Lemmy have something like 10 billion upvotes, but only 7 comments.
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Why?
Edit: fixed the meme.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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Apparently, it's a little over 7k and it's about beans. I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans
It's now over 9K. Nice job.
that post happened during the time Lemmy had the most active users, so there is that
Also during the time Lemmy was most excited about beans. One of the golden ages, to be sure.
There was also the can't poop guy
Let us not forget the I can't poop for three days guy. That was just after the reddit api fiasco and helped cement Lemmy's capacity for collective comedy.
That guy is the lemmy version of "it's a cylinder"
Its depressing that I'm living through another golden age... Last time it was reddit, before that it was msn messenger. I can't even remember what was before that. Probably chisels and slabs of rock.
Before lemmy became a has-been.
What the fuck are you talking about, Jesse?
During the initial reddit migration, Lemmy/Kbin had a larger active userbase than it does now. It fell off a bit after a little while, though its slowly creeping back up there with a more committed community.
But basically there were more users to upvote beans at that point
Same lol. Here since the 'beginning'
It's been a long road...
The transition away from "the bad place" has done me a lot of good. I'd only been a lurker and occasionally commented prior. Finding the fediverse Trek community, at least as I initially saw it (old Risa), encouraged me to engage in what has now become a much loved hobby.
Yes, now that I've refined my keyword blocklist Lemmy has become quite a pleasant and relaxing scroll
Definitely hitting my stride now, lost my first Lemmy account, accidentally made it on .ml and it was down for quite sometime
Man, I wish the dev of Kbin had let people help him. It was, by far, my favorite instance and style of threadiverse.
No, I don't really find Mbin the same, sadly.
Just lamenting what was haha
Is that what kicked off the beans era? That was some good times.
Don't forget the Jeans era
I designed and bought a jeans wrap for my PlayStation controllers because I thought it would be funny for a meme post. They took forever to arrive, looked absolutely awful, and didn’t stay on.
Lesson learned, don’t buy those sketchy upload a picture controller wraps.
Don’t remind me of the jeans era.
My jenes entering the jean pool
Link to post or fake
I deleted my older accounts, and I didn’t post it because it looked really stupid
This was the design, I couldn’t find photos of the actual wrapped controller. It covered the black part of the controller.
I see the same, top all time post with 8112 upvotes
I wonder if it has anything to do with what instances your instance is federated with
That is exactly what it has to do with
Do instances count votes differently or separately? I don't even know.
Yeah, it's sort of an odd part of the threadiverse. Every instance calculates based on what they're notified of which means the age of the server along with what other instances it's federated with impacts the count
The federation of votes makes sense for potentially mitigating bad actor instances with false votes. Like if a new instance spun up and falsified their votes it could be negated easily by defederating.
Having differing votes is like having differing communities based on subscriptions. Just a necessary side effect of picking and choosing what gets shared when federated.
Good question. How many upvotes does it have on your end?
7.135
@pelespirit @protist im watching from Mastodon and it has zero on my instance
Do all the posts from lemmy show as zero?
@pelespirit now that you mention it... Yeah, its all zero... On Mastodon there is no up/downvote, its more like. "Likes"