People Twitter

Yes, but consider, if I thought about it that way, I’d also have to accept that people might recognize my username between posts/comments and form an opinion of me. And that opinion might be that I’m dumb and mean, and that is the most horrifying eternal torture I can conceive of. Ergo, I’m going to pretend that those are just number that appear and that people have as much name blindness as I do.

Funny enough dislikes are exactly this way. -5 feels like 5 people just called me dumb.

I agree completely. I am in the process of building an app for Lemmy, Bluesky, Mastodon and Tumblr. Getting a single like or comment on the development process keeps me going!!

Less exciting if it's 15 bots

I write fiction and post it online. I'm thrilled when one person reads it and comments. It doesn't even need to be a positive comment, I'm just happy someone read it.

That would mean I had to interact with 15 people.

15/8,000,000,000 isn't that bad.

Imagine someone going like "Yeah, cool", then scrolling past you - but IRL.

7 is the magic number for me. 1-5 feels like its bots, 6 is close, 7 is 'yeah, I feel validated'.

Goes the other way too. Imagine 100 people yelling at you and calling you a dumbass.

I got fifteen real, unprompted compliments (about my bike, it is pretty cool) last week. It was surprising.

I'm always happy if I post something here and just get a few replies, but I'm not sure if that would change if it were Facebook. But I don't really use Facebook.

Imagine, 20 people standing in front of you saying "Good job", but there are 25 more who have to tell you that they don't like what you are doing instead of minding their own business... That's the average social media with down votes enabled.

i just imagined it, and it felt pretty nice actually, thanks for that

yeah but me getting 30 upvotes for my thing I worked for a year on is disappointing when the fart joke I made got 3000