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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] 2 points 2 months ago

That's how social media like this works. It was the same on Reddit but the user base was larger so it would be a little more difficult to notice. A very small percentage of users actually post and since we're already a pretty small community you'll notice the same people more easily.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I can't believe this guy, we're not all bots!

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

I can’t believe this guy, we’re not all bots!

I hate when people assume everyone who disagrees with them are bots!

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

Speak for yourself.

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

I understand what he's saying, I've seen the same usernames respond to different threads before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's a smaller community, you're going to see the same names, stop making it seem like a conspiracy!

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

there are dozens of us

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

Yes. I think that's notmal, no? Some people have more time than others, and care more intensely about some topics.

Others are bots and paid shills too, just trying to earn a living.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

everyone reading this should introduce lemmy to at least 1 cool person in their life. thats what it needs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried multiple times. They give me dirty looks and grief about all the political extremist content here. We who know how to block it tend to forget, but for a newcomer it's definitely off-putting. And yes X is that way these days too, but people already know it and don't visit it for the first time, so it gets grandfathered in.

We have some work to do before we will go mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Several instances block hexbear and lemmygrad, that can be a starting point

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (7 children)

That's very much possible.

That's why I try to be as nice as I can on here.

There are very few times when I initially joined Lemmy where, I admit, I was a bit shitty towards some users (old Reddit habits). This can get you banned, or blocked, or you can build a reputation pretty quickly. And since we're not a lot, that can limit your interactions quite a bit. So I changed my attitude pretty quick. And frankly it's been much more enjoyable this way since.

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

Interesting to hear

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Reddit did things to us all. You couldn't like be nice to someone bc you would get your ass handed to you. EVERY comment had to be so defensive, and primarily what worked was snark. Here... is different, most of the time (and when it's not, we can block and move on:-).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

This is a good way to think about it. I've also been trying my hand at being a bit nicer to tankies. Oops... I mean communists.

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

Do you identify as being part of this class?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I comment quite a lot and post relatively often, so i do think i am one of the handful of users I'm referring to. Whether my contributions make any difference is what i don't know

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

'Make any difference' in what sense?

I do recall an exchange where you gracefully bowed out of a discussion with another commented. I appreciated seeing that

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No there's like four of us

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, I don't see any of the regular users I see in every community on this thread.

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

I've seen you before

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

Lemmy may be small, but it's cozy!

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