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.
IllegallySmol
I see that now
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.
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.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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
I pop in every month or so. I’ll see ya around!
See ya next month!
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.
We also have common interests on here that things are pretty interesting.
I disagree. The interests communities get no attention at all. The only things that get on the homepage are political stuff, some technology and a bit dry memes.
This is literally why i don’t browse “All”. Politics galore
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?
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
Lemmy.world is defederated from the major Marxist instances, so you might want to join a different instance for a fresh look. Lemmy in general is small enough to be dominated easily, what helps this is finding a good instance and treating said instance like a community with different tags, rather than treating communities like subreddits.
I have an account on sh.itjust.works that i rarely use. Then again, do i want to see posts from Marxists, especially the ones defederated from .world?
Sh.itjust.works is also defederated. If you’re a liberal, then you probably don’t care for Marxism and Lemmy.world is going to be fine, the mods are anti-Marxism as well. You’ll just run into the same issue of having a few posters dominate is all.
I thought hexbear was marxist. Oh well i guess I’ll stick to seeing the same users
Hexbear is Marxist, yes, and is defederated with sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world.
Does defederation mean I only can’t make any posts or comments to that instance. Because i can still view and seemingly join hexbear communities on my sh.itjust.works alt.
Interesting, when are the latest posts in those communitues?
!movies@hexbear.net has a post as early as 2 days ago
The ownership class will tremble before a communist revolution! We have nothing to lose but our chains! <Bolshevik chorus swells>
Be the change you want to see.
Got it. Creating bot accounts now
everyone reading this should introduce lemmy to at least 1 cool person in their life. thats what it needs.
I tried multiple times. They give me dirty looks and grief about all the political extremist content here. We who know how to block it tend to forget, but for a newcomer it’s definitely off-putting. And yes X is that way these days too, but people already know it and don’t visit it for the first time, so it gets grandfathered in.
We have some work to do before we will go mainstream.
Several instances block hexbear and lemmygrad, that can be a starting point
If they follow through and block .world and .ee, then they can really get a handle of the extremism.
Problem is they miss out on all the other content as well
Real talk
No I haven’t seen it
Do you also happen to have MPD?
Ironically, I don’t see any of the regular users I see in every community on this thread.
I’ve seen you before
Be the change you want to see. Post and comment. Start a sub.
That’s more difficult than it would seem. Especially since the niche stuff i would be interested in fostering is… well… niche. And lemmy isn’t that large. YET!
What interest is it?
Have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world for list of existing active communities
!fedigrow@lemm.ee for people who make communities grow
Mostly just anime specific communities and other hobbies. Thanks for the info though. Maybe I’ll get around to making a community
!anime@ani.social us usually fit for discussions about specific animes
Feel free, yesterday I discovered we had !simracing@lemmy.ml , so sometimes it’s just there, but unknown
Might i say that you’re always doing a good job of promoting these communities as well. Kudos to you!
I don’t post nearly as much as I would like, because I post some stream related stuff in my own community on lemmy and don’t know want to come off as someone who is trying to advertise all the time. I have been reported for that posting to my own community, which… ya know. I get it, nobody cares about yet another streamer dude, but it is a bit intimidating almost.
If it’s any consolation, i checked out your stuff, and while i don’t really play TTRPG’s i know a couple of people who do, so I’ll be sure to recommend your stuff to them.
