At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven’t even been on lemmy that long.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!
Like the others said, the ratio of posters/lurkers on most social media sites is 10/90, and i think that lemmy is on the better, more active side of things. in a 30k community that means that you will see about 300 people commenting regularly, and 30 of them will be very active.
i also like the smaller scope here, fewer comments mean that my opinion will be engaged with more.
I rarely commented on reddit, because one little comment in a swarm of 2500 will not even be noticed. It’s different here, and i wrote over 400 comments this year! i maxed out at about 100 on reddit because my comments wouldn’t even be noticed most of the time if i didn’t filter by new.
It’s called a community. If Reddit doesn’t seem like this anymore, it’s because half those people are actually AI.
I can’t speak to Lemmy specifically but my Reddit years were ages 15-30. I think I got my fill of arguing on the internet then.
I write a lot of comments on Lemmy that I end up deleting before posting because I just don’t want the hassle of arguing with someone about it who is being deliberately obtuse or arguing in bad faith.
That’s not an indictment of Lemmy specifically, but I think my lack of interest in those arguments comes with age and I suspect my story isn’t unique, the demographics will line up for a lot of Lemmy users.
Reddit is worse but they use puppet accounts so you can’t easily tell.
/TinfoilHat
The ratio of commenter/poster to lurker is always pretty lopsided. I also never read user names.
I’m commenting to boost engagement!
Yes. I’ve been posting to subs around here too. I like it cause everybody will probably see your post and you’ll get engagement from real people. We also have common interests on here that things are pretty interesting.
does that mean i’m famous?! MUM I’M FAMOUS
Yes. Don’t look at usernames.
We’re looking sat you PugJesus! 😎
not a bot at least
I use both reddit and lemmy and for the most part, I’ll see similar or the same articles shared/posted on both platforms. I don’t mind, it actually makes me feel like one day Lemmy might grow enough to the point where I use reddit less and less.
using multiple platforms I see the same users from time to time but I never really cared about who’s posting or commenting
FlyingSquid is our mrbabyman.
