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.
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guess I'm not famous here :(
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.
does that mean i'm famous?! MUM I'M FAMOUS
The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!
Reddit is worse but they use puppet accounts so you can't easily tell.
/TinfoilHat
Are you still double-dipping in reddit?
Yes. Don’t look at usernames.
wubby7
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!
Everyone on lemmy is a bot except you.
I'm a bot
Hello! :D
I'm everywhere!
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.
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 quite incredible how much one can manage to post when it's your full time job
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
I pop in every month or so. I'll see ya around!
See ya next month!
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!)
I agree…