It reminds me how Imgur is often discussing images that were uploaded for Reddit and OP will never know about all the comments.

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    one thing that I’ve noticed the last week when using Lemmy is that content is slowly coming along but the discussions are somewhat lacking.

    Reddit offers a shitload of topics and content but the real reason we were there was for the comments and the discussions.

    Bots reposting material can be a way to artificially secure the constant flow of topics but we need to throw some gasoline on the discussion bonfire…

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      I’m hoping it will happen naturally. I am inclined to think those of us who left reddit early are less lurkers than the users who will leave later. That means most of the users who left reddit early in the blackout are the more active users. Still, we need to double down on our activity to get things going here. It reminds me of a message on mastodon when the twitter exodus happened. There was encouragement to comment on toots, even if it was something small, just to make the OPs feel they were being heard/read. We should strive for the same here, specially considering there might be another wave of users coming this way after the 30th.

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      When 90% of the comments are sarcastic or jokes like Reddit I can’t call that discussion or engaging. It’s noise just like all of the reposts and duplicate content.

      I’ve been on kbin (the fediverse) for over a week and I feel the opposite of your sentiment. The content was lacking but discussion is A+. Content is definitely picking up steam now, but I don’t want the fediverse to be a reddit clone.

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        Reddit has really become overrun with the garbage comments in recent years.

        It’s like all of the sudden everyone decided they were a comedian and reddit threads were the place to test their new material.

        It really has been a huge piece of what’s been killing the appeal for me recently.

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          I really hope the fediverse isn’t going to be completely overrun with “this”, “this is the way”, “fuck around and find out”. FFS, people, try to have an original thought.

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      I’ve been making a conscious effort to reply to posts I find interesting, even if I’m just adding a sentence or two and not the most engaging of content. At least it helps get things started, I think.

      My problem is that I’m experiencing a bug wherein I don’t get notifications when people reply to me unless they @ me, so I can only see if somebody has by going back and looking at my own comments through my profile. I assume that’ll eventually be fixed, but if others are experiencing the same bug, that will be a huge drag on discussion.