Lemmy is VERY small. Most users who post often can make a difference to the whole site. Similarly several posts made in a short timeframe are noticeable to many active users, especially on the bigger communities.
Social beings like approval of peers.
Like another commenter said, survival instinct.
Also its a nod to our identity, we derive a sense of self worth from those around us. Approval from people who believe what you do makes you feel like youre a part of smth bigger than yourself (look at religion, nationalism etc).
Songs of Leonard Cohen 1967.
Blonde on blonde, Bob Dylan 1966.
Highway 61 revisited, Bob Dylan 1961.
Everything you’ve come to expect, tlsp 2016.
My beautiful dark twisted fantasy, kanye 2010. (Sorry)
I’d be happy with any of these. But I’d give highway 61 revisited the top spot easily.
Quora?
This community?
Well signal also has the note to self.
People will hate this, but WhatsApp is probably the second best and convenient to most people. (But if your friends are willing to get signal, do it.) In fact it was always better than telegram, there I said it.
Also there’s many great note taking apps that have a sync feature. Joplin for one.
Strawberry works, but I you’ve said that already. I believe banana is used in some Nordic country too (not 100% about this)