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.
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.