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.
It’s a smaller neighborhood here dude.
Yep! We smol.
Hey, it’s just the cold water.
“I was in the pool!”
“I’m a grower not a shower”…
“It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean”…
I see that now
cozy. lets just think of It as cozy, why don’t we… ahhh, much better!
Hey watch your hand!
There’s definitely regulars I recognize, but still plenty more I don’t.
Yeah, there are a handful of extremely prolific posters who are awesome and keep the whole thing fresh. Then there are a couple dozen that I see at least a few times a week if not more. After that, I see a mix of familiar and unfamiliar faces.since I scroll All.
But even reddit had a similar pattern on a larger scale proportionate to the userbase. There were like a dozen prolific posters (or bots) whose threads got the most engagement even when they were reposts of someone else’searlier post.
I like to think of it like movies and tv, where a few prolific actors and actresses are everywhere and in things that get a lot of attention, but there are also a ton of people also participating but without as much attention because they are in fewer popular things.
If someone browses hot or new they will absolutely see the same few people the majority of the time since those are the most active people. Browse Active and there are a lot more that arrived a few hours after the post was made.
Part of it is also because you will notice the people you recognize, but scroll past the people that you don’t.
Having to check over usernames from the moderation side, I notice a lot more variety than I’d think about otherwise
There’s dozens of us. Dozens.
haha! oh wow!
in my case, there’s people i tend to always see the same comment-style and so their name sticks.
depending on the sub, that could be good or bad.
Because it is dawg.
Total users are like ballpark 1 million, and most don’t post much or at all – e.g the 1-9-90 rule.
By comparison Reddit and twitter are the most trafficed sites on the internet
‘Had to look up the 1-9-90 rule
Important concept when it comes to communities like Reddit and Lemmy, and something to keep in mind when talking about online marketing and propaganda.
A handful of posters, relatively speaking, essentially shape global consensus, and many know that, so plan accordingly.
Yes, plan accordingly as a reader, AND as a poster!
Smaller community, so the power users (like myself, FlyingSquid, The Picard Maneuver and others) will undoubtedly be more prevalent than the many, many other users that barely post at all.
I do in fact recognize all those users including you
But do you recognize me!?
I don’t remember you, but i remember that post about google maps
I think it’s good that you don’t remember me. I always obey the rules of good grammar.
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I see you everywhere and I enjoy it. Thanks for contributing to all the conversations. O7
I literally scrolled through looking for your comment.
Yeah, you are very recognisable, but people like me, who lurk most of the time, comment maybe once a month.
Not very memorable.
Non respect
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
it’s ironic coming from you, I literally recognize you
Not everything online needs an /s
If only that were true
I’m not usually an internet commentor, but I try to chip in on Lemmy sometimes. I think most people just treat it like the rest of social media today, where the smart idea is to just lurk
I guess it makes sense that the majority of the userbase is just lurkers
It’s the rules.
Tres interresant
HEY, no frenchies allowed.
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Putain 🙄
It’s called a community. If Reddit doesn’t seem like this anymore, it’s because half those people are actually AI.
Yes, I love how much actual, genuine discussion happens here. The level of bots and trolls and astroturfing is nowhere near Reddit.
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.
That’s not an indictment of Lemmy specifically
For me this is a major, glaring problem with Lemmy. The obtuse and bad faith arguments are a constant problem here. Some of the things that get upvoted are wildly wrong, openly biased, and would be ridiculed in most other settings.
If not for instances like Lemmy.ml and hexbear it wouldn’t be so bad, but even if they disappeared, the Lemmy user base is an echochamber that’s out of touch with reality.
How so? Can you list some examples of upvoted things that are wildly wrong?
Small town vibes where you actually recognize people at the grocery store kinda thing.
This is one of the things I appreciate about the Fediverse. Even if we were to grow large, too, this small-town vibe can be maintained simply by using the instance federation tools. Reddit doesn’t really give you that same degree of convenience.
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Be the change you want to see.
Got it. Creating bot accounts now
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.
Honestly, that’s one of the cool parts of old internet (forums, chatrooms, etc.) is getting to know people, you get to know the community 😊
Be the shitpost you want to see in the world.
I almost never comment on anything. I imagine most users are like me.
Yes, I do see the same names popping up all the time.
That’s honestly crazy to me. What’s the appeal of lurking?
Not the person you asked but another lurker. Social interaction is hard, even posting this I’m having second thoughts about it, but I still like to feel like a member of the community.
Congratulations to you on interacting! I agree with everything you said.
I’m certainly not one of the lemmy celebrities, but I’ve got nearly 900 comments on lemmy where I doubt I had 100 on Reddit. Not going back to check.
Lemmy is a just nicer place to comment than Reddit: smaller audience, kinder communities, much less intimidating. I don’t consider there to be any pressure to make posts or to comment, but if you do, I doubt you’ll regret it.
Either way, I personally am happy to have you here.
Welcome to the community, fam!
My published comments are probably about 20% of comments I start. I just give up most of the time because it wasn’t important or I can’t word something how I like in the moment
If I notice that I am spending too much time trying to cover all the bases so someone can’t nitpick or acktually my reply I just give up and hit cancel. I appreciate an entertaining comment thread, what bug the shit out of me are people that reply to a comment with an obscure edge case or who are just pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.
Sometimes what you were going to comment is already there, you updoot and move along.
To learn…
Just happy to observe and take in people’s ideas and views
If you’re satisfied then that’s enough i guess. 2 comments in 1 year is crazy
Can confirm, browse Lemmy daily but almost never comment.
The ratio of commenter/poster to lurker is always pretty lopsided. I also never read user names.
