But browsing active >95% of posts are by a user with literally “bot” in their name.
Might as well be reading the Google feed if I’m going to be reading a specific agenda by something, at least that’s based on my interests and I can trust Google to put profit over everything, making their motives clearer than whatever the fuck is going on on Lemmy. (Cough tankies cough cough)
I came over when reddit said no more third party apps. I’ve been faithful to lemmy for nearly two years since.
I’ve experienced the same feeling. There can be hundreds/thousands of posts and yet no discussions. I pass by many interesting topics because there’s zero comments and it was posted to 10 different communities/instances. I know that’s how federated content works, but this method discourages interaction.
Then there’s communities like hacker news that doesn’t even post the content on lemmy, just the title and a link. I’ve ended up blocking them because I don’t want sign up on another site, I like my cozy app.
There’s a lot of niche communities from reddit here that people attempted to make but they ended up not taking off and are now wastelands.
I miss old reddit, but I’ll never be going back to what it’s become.
There can be hundreds/thousands of posts and yet no discussions. I pass by many interesting topics because there’s zero comments and it was posted to 10 different communities/instances.
My Lemmy client doesn’t merge those multiposts, yet, so I find that blocking those specific bots cleans up my feed nicely.
Unfortunately, that’s probably also why none of those posts gets much discussion.
You can filter out the bot accounts in your Lemmy settings
But then it’s just one post a week or something. Then I might as well be reading the local newspaper.
It’s not so bad, I’d much rather see a few posts people want to talk about then see many posts nobody wants to talk about. Then Lemmy just becomes a RSS reader
Idk man, I had some niche interests that just don’t exist on Lemmy although Reddit had a sizable community. Drug gardening for one.
You can find a little bit of basic weed growing on Lemmy, but it’s about the same scale and activity that some small forums I was on in 2005 had. As Opposed to Reddit where there’s people trying different cacti grafting styles, trying projects to grow even the hardest to grow shrooms, esoteric plants which don’t really get you high but are culturally valued/legal, etc.
And that’s just one interest.
Here there’s like three interests, Star Trek, Linux, and a third equally generic one you can enter here yourself
Ever try browsing All, Top 6 hours?
Or Top 24 hours. Plenty of posts & discussions—a few insightful comments per post, often.
Edit: when a recent high-rated story has no comments, offering your own insight can get the ball rolling for others too!
Are you talking about the RSS bots who repost articles? You know you can block that in the lemmy settings right?
That’s not exactly my point…
The lack of actual content being posted while acting superior to Reddit is closer to my point.
Well I never really had this problem because I don’t tend to follow those RSS bot comms.
Obviously the lemmyverse is way less active to reddit. People act superior because its FOSS, Decentralised, no adds, grassroots community, we have control of our data etc.
Sounds like you need to go back to reddit then.
Honestly this place can feel empty without them
It would be, pretty much. Which is exactly my point.
The percentage of garbage can’t be lower than Reddit, that’s for sure.
The total amount obviously is, but percentage wise… nah. Although haven’t been to Reddit for some time now
It’s crazy how tiny Lemmy really is.
There’s like 50k monthly active users or something like that. Lots of them are multi-accounts or bots, quite a few of them are on NSFW instances or defederated instances. I’d be surprised if there’s more than 10k actually monthy active unique users.
Reddit has 1.2b monthly active users, so a cool 24 000x of what lemmy has in official monthly and 120 000x of the 10k actually active users I estimate.
Lol, true! 🤣
