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[–] [email protected] 261 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The content will bring in users. I try to comment on interesting topics to help drive engagement.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my thoughts as well. I’ve noticed that once one or two people express interest in a post, it tends to get much more traffic

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used to lurk like crazy on reddit. I had a nearly 12 year old account that mainly had a few comments here and there months apart, and only a few posts but ever since moving to Lemmy I've found myself actually posting relatively frequently to help build some of the smaller communities I'm in that have also migrated.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Keep it up. I wish people would bring themself to comment so they count as active users.

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

I’m exactly the same. I feel like the opportunity to have a productive conversation on Lemmy is a lot higher. There are fewer of us right now but we are the motivated minority kicking Reddit to the curb for its terrible actions and we want to see Lemmy thrive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I still check Reddit every couple days on my laptop. I don't think they maintained a majority of their users. Engagement is way down. Most of the posts on my front page are barely hitting 2000 updoots, compared to well over 10,000 prior to July 1

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(post comment edit - if you put things inside < > as your entire post, Lemmy will eat it. Cool>

[–] nieceandtows 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Only if the content is organic. Look at [email protected] . Full of bot posts from reddit with 0 comments. Even if one of them gets a comment, it would get drowned out by the subsequent bot posts. Blindly filling a community with bot posts would eventually make people unsub from it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure those bots are well intended, but I would rather not see bots just copying posts from reddit blindly. When you sort all by new, it's just a swamp of bot posts.

Edit: So I checked to verify my claim and most are from @[email protected] iirc and you can just block that account to stop seeing all the automated posts from reddit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It depends on the content.

Some of content really depends on OP being in the comments, like AmITheAsshole. Just reposting doesn't give the kind of interaction that the original post would have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ongoing discussion—i.e., comments replying to other comments, not just posts—drives engagement as much as content. If the post-to-comment ratio is too high, active commenters are less likely to encounter each other in the sea of automated posts.

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

You're doing it right. That's exactly how to build momentum! 💪

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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