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[–] [email protected] 451 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Honestly a lot of it is probably people getting comfortable lurking again, Lemmy only counts post and comments as active users

[–] [email protected] 132 points 11 months ago (5 children)

So glad I decided to stop lurking and actually start participating right as the whole fediverse dies out, it's not just lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I find it more comfortable to contribute to Lemmy than to other sites. There seems to be actual discussion and opportunities to learn, which can be much harder to come across on the other platforms.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And fewer comments that are clearly a chat bot.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Don't worry! They've just become less obvious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

When you come across a ‘user’ that almost exclusively defends one controversial politician/company/government and all of their comments seem to follow a script. Also the account is either brand new or 5 years old but only started posting recently.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That I agree with. I don't post often but when I do it's always very positive and makes me want to post more . Compared to Reddit where it would have alot more negative comments or would just get removed by the mods for some stupid reason. Did you know you can no longer post on r/buildapc about asking for suggestions on building PC's ? What's even the point anymore?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Did you know you can no longer post on r/buildapc about asking for suggestions on building PC’s ?

Yeah it's like a sub for a specific narrow purpose then people get buthurt about how people are always making the same posts over and over. So they turn it in to a wiki to "address repetitive spam" or whatever, so at that point you might as well just refer to one of the hundreds of other build lists found on other reputable sites. A lot of the productive hobby subs turn in to "hey check out my [reddit hyped product]!" and people actually posting things they've put effort in get little to no attention.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Definitely trying to interact more, Lemmy is a gift imo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I feel like mastodon is doing alright.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The fediverse is not dying out, don't be dramatic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For me Mastodon is still growing and getting more interesting, with more and more formal institutions joining (newspapers, NGOs, government institutions etc.).

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's funny how despite social media becoming very normal, the old phenomenon of most content getting generated by a small portion of power users persists.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm just not clever enough to post

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen the shitpost communities? Cleverness isn't required, and in fact I think in those communities it's somewhat frowned upon, 'cause c'mon, no polishing shit!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My biggest issue is I always forget my good shit posts by the time I have time to post. Getting old sucks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Sometimes I think of things in the shower and after I'm done I can't find the post I wanted to post in :/

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I comment on stuff to try to make discussions active, it rarely works.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This is something I've learned from online game forums. You actually have to be divisive to get a high amount of concurrent users.

It only seems to be the shit-shows that anyone feels obligated to post in.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well I think you're wrong, fuck you and your opinion /s

I actually don't know to what extent I agree with you, but your theory certainly feels plausible to me. It reminds me of the internet adage about how the best way to get a right answer to your question is to be wrong. I can't remember what it's called.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cunningham's law. And just to buck the trend, you didn't have to get it wrong to get the right answer ;).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I’ve been pretty successful and keeping conversations going! I DO comment quite a bit, though.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Time to step out of the shadows then 🤭

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Commenting so I‘m active :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know how long it counts it for, but I try to remember to comment something like once every two weeks or something

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

that‘s a good idea. I will copy your „way of lemmy“.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I take a break over the weekend. If I comment, I need to check the client every hour or so. I don't want replies/rebuttals to linger without a response if it is warranted. I need to work on my car projects and can't be bothered with online interactions whilst doing so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's probably the one thing I like about lemmy that surprised me when compared to reddit. I've found myself commenting on posts or to replying to comments days after the initial posts, and no one seems bothered by it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

I'm doing my part!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Me no lurk. Me comment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

My comment to stop the lurk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Ok I am guilty of that. What about votes? Are they not counted as activity?

I’ll try to post atleast one comment every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Well in that case, ping!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well, as they say: “I’m going my part”.

I try to make it a point to post questions on communities that have not kicked off yet, knowing that I most likely will not receive a response for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, that's probably the case.

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