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.
I see that now
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
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.
Yeah, you are very recognisable, but people like me, who lurk most of the time, comment maybe once a month.
Not very memorable.
I see you everywhere and I enjoy it. Thanks for contributing to all the conversations. O7
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.
The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!
Small town vibes where you actually recognize people at the grocery store kinda thing.
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 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.
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
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 me me meee right?
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
It’s quite incredible how much one can manage to post when it’s your full time job
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.
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