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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

guess I'm not famous here :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

/TinfoilHat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Are you still double-dipping in reddit?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Don’t look at usernames.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months 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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone on lemmy is a bot except you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's quite incredible how much one can manage to post when it's your full time job

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

it's me me meee right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whoooo? Are you not allowed to name names?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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/[email protected] and 50.7*1000/(8760 hours) = 5.78767 posts per hour

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

See ya next month!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months 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!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
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