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.
guess I’m not famous here :(
The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!
What helps me is having the perspective that people change from moment to moment, and we don’t see enough moments in a row to pick out a pattern generally. Even if I see the same names, it helps to treat them with new eyes everytime. Also makes it easier to catch someone on a bad day but then have a nice conversation the next.
does that mean i’m famous?! MUM I’M FAMOUS
Reddit is worse but they use puppet accounts so you can’t easily tell.
/TinfoilHat
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.
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Yes. Don’t look at usernames.
It’s called a community. If Reddit doesn’t seem like this anymore, it’s because half those people are actually AI.
There’s one user that seems to be everywhere and it’s probably the same user everyone is thinking of right now lol.
I’m also surprised I come across other “agents” on here more frequently than I would expect.
I notice a lot of the same people in most of the popular posts. I guess it’s because the quantity of people that usually comment vs voting or just reading post is pretty low, so you’ll start to recognize them everywhere
It makes me wonder if people recognize me from other posts I comment on!
We’re looking sat you PugJesus! 😎
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
not a bot at least
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.
