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
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 see you everywhere and I enjoy it. Thanks for contributing to all the conversations. O7
Yeah, you are very recognisable, but people like me, who lurk most of the time, comment maybe once a month.
Not very memorable.
I literally scrolled through looking for your comment.
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.
Welcome new member!
it’s ironic coming from you, I literally recognize you
Not everything online needs an /s
If only that were true
The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!
Reddit is worse but they use puppet accounts so you can’t easily tell.
/TinfoilHat
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.
How so? Can you list some examples of upvoted things that are wildly wrong?
Be the shitpost you want to see in the world.
Honestly, that’s one of the cool parts of old internet (forums, chatrooms, etc.) is getting to know people, you get to know the community 😊
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.
It’s quite incredible how much one can manage to post when it’s your full time job
Yeah, that guy’s everywhere. Assuming we’re thinking of the same person, which i think we are
I worked it out, they have ~6 comments/hour average over the last year. A lemmy legend.
Whoooo? Are you not allowed to name names?
The discussion is probably about https://lemmy.world/u/FlyingSquid
I see “50.7K Comments” and “Joined 1 year ago” at https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected] and 50.7*1000/(8760 hours) = 5.78767 posts per hour
We’re looking sat you PugJesus! 😎
Just trying to keep things alive until they’re self-sustaining! I look forward to the day when I don’t, uh, post every day.
I’m commenting to boost engagement!
I’m engaged in your comment
I am engaged with your engagement.
Congrats! When’s the wedding?
Wedding? I want to get invited! I’m currently on a speedrun to get invited to a wedding!
The ratio of commenter/poster to lurker is always pretty lopsided. I also never read user names.
I swear there is one dude who is like a frequent news reporter, I see his name nearly all of the time around the instances. But yeah there seems to be just a handful of people who represent the minority that just chat away.
Small town vibes where you actually recognize people at the grocery store kinda thing.
Because it is dawg.
Total users are like ballpark 1 million, and most don’t post much or at all – e.g the 1-9-90 rule.
By comparison Reddit and twitter are the most trafficed sites on the internet
