I’m with you, homey.

I'd recommend using the block feature freely. I've had to start doing that. There are quite a few arrogant hateful shitheads that will reliably respond negatively and self righteously and I have no use for that. Binary thinkers are a stressful waste of time.

Taken as a whole, I like your contributions here. But I – ironically, because I'm responding – also don't think you should give a shit what I say or really what anyone in this thread does. The only validation you need is your own; if you enjoy posting here, if you enjoy the comments you get* and conversations you have, if you think you're giving people something worthwhile, and if you think you're staying within the rules and on-topic, then that's what matters. If you don't, then that's also fine and maybe means you're burnt out and could be more fulfilled reducing your time here in favor of something else.

* I'm confused what you mean here by being "controversial"; Voyager shows you as +208 upvotes for me, and I'm sure I'm at least a bit notorious to regulars of this small pond as a cranky, critical, cynical fuck.

Does it matter if you're controversial? I also left during the API debacle. Couldn't tell you what my karma was. Couldn't tell you what it would be here. Up votes just tell me if a post was well-received or not, I'm really here for the comments. This is my only form of online interaction with people.

Are you useful? How would I get to Ozma without you?

I came over after getting banned with more then half a million karma. I just post my shit. if folks like it, neat, if not oh well, not like there's a century club here or anything.

You post mostly interesting content. Keep it coming.

Please, keep feeding me content.

Contribution is important

Controversial posts that get engagement are probably thought-provoking and worthy of discussion. Discussion is much more important than karmafarming. Continue!

As long as you're posting something, you're contributing.

I personally prefer controversy because that means people are saying what they want, not just what other people want to hear.

Lemmy is VERY hateful. In some cases more than Reddit because we have less people but more radical. the amount of hate one can get just because it mentioned specific words is insane. There is no debate here, if you mention a couple of specific topics and trigger words you are sent to hell.

And I'm not even talking about .ml, that place is psychotic.

I disagree with your takes sometimes (although not since I switched to PieFed), but you always have an argument and I’ve never seen you have one I couldn’t see any merit in. As good as it gets, imo.

I'll be honest here. The majority of the content I see from you is defeatist doomer shit. We don't need that crap at the best of times, but certainly not now. Take a break and see if your outlook improves, for you, but you'd probably feel better ditching the doomerism.

Lemmy has a bit of a reputation of being the "fight club" of the fediverse...

To a degree, I'd agree on that one. Some people come here looking for an argument, farming vibes in the doorway, don't let it get to you.

I love your posts! Thank you for being here and all your posts!

I'm reading a lot here and also read a lot of your posts. Sometimes I agree with what you post, sometimes I do not agree. But reading your name next to a post title has never discouraged me to not click on your postings! I would be missing a lot of content if you weren't there.

But ultimately, neither I or anyone else should matter for if you post or not - if it's good enough for you, and you aren't breaking any rules, post away! I for my part do enjoy the content you post.

I'm controversial

You've ended up with +5 in my book, so you must be doing something right. At least according to me.

I think you’re useful! I have Voyager’s tags on for votes, and it shows that I’ve upvoted your posts hundreds of times, so your content definitely has value for me.

Your account always stands out to me, I notice your posts and am happy to engage with them.

That said, do you, if you’re not feeling good about things lately a break probably couldn’t hurt (though my feed will suffer!).

sounds to me, you take social media too seriously

Eh, I like you.

The points were always imaginary and made up… keep posting!

I have no idea who you are.

I see people complain about you a lot, but I've never felt like anything you've contributed to Lemmy has been negative or harmful.

Let the haters hate. Block exists for a reason. If those losers blocked you and every other superposter who provides content they'd complain that nobody posts anything.

As you said, you can't make everyone happy no matter what you do. Just do what you feel like you want to do right now.

In general I have thought so for a long time.

Even when we disagree, which has happened.

I appreciate you mate 🫂

When you know the crowd downvotes are more satisfying than upvotes.

You do you, even if that means taking breaks, or finding new communities/instances within Lemmy, or finding new hobbies or groups within your real life community.

For what it's worth, You are one of the few names I recognize without tags and I often enjoy what you post.