No there's like four of us
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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Five!
I don't know you!
Don't saw much in English, but in French yes it looks like we are 3 or 4 users
I have no idea what you're talking about, says the chump who has a series of precisely 103 formulaic knife reviews posted here.
No.
I can't believe this guy, we're not all bots!
I understand what he's saying, I've seen the same usernames respond to different threads before.
It's a smaller community, you're going to see the same names, stop making it seem like a conspiracy!
Gotta appreciate the dedication here. Well played.
Ahh! Social contact!!! Kill it with fire!!!
I'm a bot.
I can’t believe this guy, we’re not all bots!
I hate when people assume everyone who disagrees with them are bots!
Speak for yourself.
I recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members
Communities with 30k members could really do with pruning the completely inactive ones. It's not like there's any commercial reasons to pretend that places are busier than they actually are.
I disagree. There is nothing to be gained by removing people from a group. You can't predict when they might suddenly become active and by removing them you're abrogating their ability to participate.
thoughtful. my issue here is while a community is nascent, isnt building maintaining an honest reflection of the community important?
I have joined a few tiny locally communities based on one post/comment. I may never return and the community traffic is irregular.
in a situation like that I can see a mod pruning me away for zero comments in a year. however that is a form of censorship. so its back to the default of mods run their communities as they wish and, if you disagree find/create another community or instance.
thanks for the thoughful comment.
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absolutely. careful pruning and caretaking is how you nurture good communities. excellent comment.
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Do you identify as being part of this class?
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
'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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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.
Ironically, I don't see any of the regular users I see in every community on this thread.
I've seen you before
I dont notice it a whole lot mainly cos i dont really care who im talking to tbh. I do wonder if my username stands out tho?
It does, if only because of the font.
I try and post, but I feel like I'm always slow to the uptake and people already say the things I have to say. But I do make sure I vote as much as I can.
Yep. Lemmy isn't that big and it is generally the case that an online space is like an iceberg, with only some of the users seen a lot.
Reddit was much larger, but it was the same and noticeable when you were active enough.
My rule of thumb was, if 100 people see a post, 10% vote on it, 1% comment on it.
There's also the fact that most active users that also comment regularly, don't browse the hot page but catch the posts earlier. So there will always be names that show up more often than others, that have already said what's going to be said.
On Lemmy there's a lot of instances that are kind of radical and have a vast interest in spreading their radical ideology in other instances, so they'll show up as well on a regular depending on the topic.
I gotta admit that I didn't start noticing regular users yet, only the trolls that I tag.
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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.
In the community I post in and read the most, I certainly recognize almost every poster. But in all communities, I recognize the most prolific of posters, but few others.
Lol I don’t usually look at usernames, and when I do it’s almost always to block someone