• li10@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Where they at tho?

    We all know there’s barely enough people here. It’s not unusable, but there are so few people it’s always the same users posting and commenting, and it can be a bit dead occasionally.

    I’m committed to the fediverse, but we could do with another big push from people dumping Reddit. Part of that would also rely on us (🫵) not being obnoxious towards the potential new users 👀

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      A lot of the thousands of Reddit comments per post were variations of ‘this!’ or inane joke responses, and I don’t miss that at all. It’s not the quantity, but the quality, and I’ve found discussions here to be more like Reddit’s early days when comment threads were more worthwhile.

      But if you’re looking for the Reddit experience, I’ll help:

      Came here to say this.

      Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

      Username checks out

      This deserves more upvotes.

      I’d give you gold if I could.

      Shots fired.

      Nailed it.

      You. I like you.

      Tree fiddy.

      You had one job.

      That’s enough internet for today.

      Happy cake day! 🎂

      I have the weirdest boner right now.

      Directions unclear.

      Banana for scale.

      5/7 with rice.

      Mom’s spaghetti.

      I laughed harder than I should have.

      Sauce?

      Someone give this man gold.

      Circlejerk is leaking.

      This was not my proudest fap.

      What did I just read?

      Risky click.

      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

      (☞゚∀゚)☞

      (ಠ_ಠ)

      ¯_(ツ)_/¯

      You dropped this: \

      Woosh!

      This is why we can’t have nice things.

      • buzziebee@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I heard it’s something like 90% of people lurk, 10% of people comment, 1% of people post. So you need a pretty substantial population just to have enough posts and comments for the lurkers to still hang around.

        It’s also why it was particularly dumb of Reddit to piss off their 1% and 10%.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Everyone wishing for more users might be wishing on a cursed monkey paw. I don’t know what the sweet spot number of active users is — I want more so we can have contributors to niche communities — but there’s a tipping point. You want your favorite bar/restaurant/message boards to be popular but not too popular.