If even 1 person smirks because of something I posted then I am happy

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

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

Would be cool if we kept this post to 15 likes but the internet doesn't have that sort of coordination.

Edit: This comment at 15 is good enough lol

imagine those 300 people in front of you staring at you.

Please no. My anxiety could not handle that

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.

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

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

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!!

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.

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

I'm a simple man, I just need one like and that makes me happy.

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

Yeah, but what about downvotes?

That's like 15 people walking up to you to say "I liked that, thank you", but then one person comes up to you, calls you a cunt and punches you in the face.

I do too. 700 people might not seem like a lot, but 900 people actually is

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.

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

No kidding. Long ago during my Imgur days, I got 700+. I figure that was my 15 minutes of fame or something.

That’s the danger of social media imo. Constant ambient parasocial relationships online leading to reduced interaction with the real world due to mental reconditioning.