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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.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[–] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Thanks. Is this like Reddit or what?

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

it's ironic coming from you, I literally recognize you

[–] HATEFISH@midwest.social 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not everything online needs an /s

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

If only that were true

[–] insight06@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!

Like the others said, the ratio of posters/lurkers on most social media sites is 10/90, and i think that lemmy is on the better, more active side of things. in a 30k community that means that you will see about 300 people commenting regularly, and 30 of them will be very active.

i also like the smaller scope here, fewer comments mean that my opinion will be engaged with more.

I rarely commented on reddit, because one little comment in a swarm of 2500 will not even be noticed. It's different here, and i wrote over 400 comments this year! i maxed out at about 100 on reddit because my comments wouldn't even be noticed most of the time if i didn't filter by new.

[–] KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Reddit is worse but they use puppet accounts so you can't easily tell.

/TinfoilHat

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[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

does that mean i'm famous?! MUM I'M FAMOUS

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

Yes. Don’t look at usernames.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We're looking sat you PugJesus! 😎

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

not a bot at least

[–] Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

I use both reddit and lemmy and for the most part, I'll see similar or the same articles shared/posted on both platforms. I don't mind, it actually makes me feel like one day Lemmy might grow enough to the point where I use reddit less and less.

using multiple platforms I see the same users from time to time but I never really cared about who's posting or commenting

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, that guy's everywhere. Assuming we're thinking of the same person, which i think we are

[–] UNY0N@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I worked it out, they have ~6 comments/hour average over the last year. A lemmy legend.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Whoooo? Are you not allowed to name names?

[–] LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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/FlyingSquid@lemmy.world and 50.7*1000/(8760 hours) = 5.78767 posts per hour

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm just here so I don't get fined.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ye, and I'm mostly fine with it (I just wish this place had more stuff that wasn't necessarily political, like "interests" type of stuff like comicbooks. We have some, and thankfully Linux is a big one, but I just wish there was more!)

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 6 days ago
[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I notice a lot of the same people in most of the popular posts. I guess it's because the quantity of people that usually comment vs voting or just reading post is pretty low, so you'll start to recognize them everywhere

It makes me wonder if people recognize me from other posts I comment on!

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

What helps me is having the perspective that people change from moment to moment, and we don't see enough moments in a row to pick out a pattern generally. Even if I see the same names, it helps to treat them with new eyes everytime. Also makes it easier to catch someone on a bad day but then have a nice conversation the next.

[–] Pyflixia@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Everyone on lemmy is a bot except you.

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[–] bricklove@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I pop in every month or so. I'll see ya around!

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[–] ChilledFlames@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

guess I'm not famous here :(

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

I'm everywhere!

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