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
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>
No I haven’t seen it
Do you also happen to have MPD?
You’ve been very busy talking to several of my puppet accounts.
Am I the only one who absolutely despises people asking “Am I the only one who…” about anything? God it’s always something mundane that any idiot could dream up too. There are 8 billion people currently on the planet and who knows how many before us. No, whatever it is, no matter what, you are not the only one who anything. Ever.
womp womp
Lemmy is still far from being another reddit. So it is definitely normal to see the same active users. For example, I see blaze alot.
I think everybody sees blaze a lot lol
Do you identify as being part of this class?
I comment quite a lot and post relatively often, so i do think i am one of the handful of users I’m referring to. Whether my contributions make any difference is what i don’t know
‘Make any difference’ in what sense?
I do recall an exchange where you gracefully bowed out of a discussion with another commented. I appreciated seeing that
What i mean by “make any difference” is whether specific discussions or communities would be any different if i hadn’t contributed. I’m also happy that you appreciate my concessions
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!
Hello cousin! Wanna go bowling?
Only if you tell me what your name means
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
For me, the difference to reddit is less the participation/diversity in individual discussions. Rather, that lively debates only happen in some prominent subs. That is the one thing I miss here when comparing lemmy to reddit. On reddit, you can look for some niche hobby or some random computer game and chances are that you’ll find an active community.
Yep, that’s the one thing i miss about Reddit that isn’t here on lemmy. Oh r/sudoku how much i miss thee
Maybe !dailygames@lemmy.zip ?
I didn’t know this community existed until now. I’ll check it out
