• Ilikecheese@lemm.ee
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    Impressive, I guess, but how many of those 2 million posts have a single comment? If 90% of these are just bots reposting things from Reddit with no further engagement…

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

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        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

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                    Oh no, I understand perfectly.

                    You definitely didn’t considering your responses.

                    I said “We should all do our best to comment on various posts that have no engagement to encourage others to engage.”

                    You did not say that, you said “The more random ass comments the better”, which I disagree with.

                    Two completely different factors. One is a genuine engagement with social media. The other is not.

                    If you’re insulted because I implied your comments aren’t genuine, I’m sorry. Genuine is a very subjective word “natural” might have been a better choice. So to reiterate, I really just prefer natural content personally. We don’t need to astroturf the site.

                    Not going to continue this conversation when it started on braindead circumstances and is somehow still going downhill. Goodbye.

                    Baby I can change… 💙

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        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.

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

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          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.

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            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

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        Only if the content is organic. Look at !photoshopbattles@lemmy.world . 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.

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          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 @bot@lemmit.online iirc and you can just block that account to stop seeing all the automated posts from reddit

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        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.

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        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.

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      Hey! Some of those posts with no comments are me posting pictures of cute bugs that I took! I’m not a bot, I’m just not very interesting.

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        Hah, that sounds like me! I started a few communities in places where I knew I could supply some OC, and so far its been mostly just me posting my stuff, but I’m stoked whenever I get comments!

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          I just subbed to your nature patterns community! I love the idea! I will keep an eye out and hope I can contribute some neat things soon!

          And since I notice you are a gardener, you may be interested in my !beebutts@lemmy.world community. It’s about bees… and their butts… I’ve also got !awwnverts@lemmy.world for the front side of the bees, and all of their adorable invertebrate friends.

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      Well the same page lists comments per day for the same period as 11,083,555. A ratio of 5.27 comments per post seems fine.

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        Yeah, a ratio means nothing if the bulk of the comments are only on a small portion of the posts. If 90% of the posts have 0 comments and the other 10% have 52.7 comments per post, that’s worth knowing.

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      And when comments are measured, you can say ‘but it’s just a small group making lots of comments’.

      And when users are measured, you can say ‘but they’re just lurkers’.

      Etc, etc. You can always naysay everything. This is impressive growth.

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        The problem is that without an effective way to ID bot content then stats like this could be covering up the real trends in human users, particularly in any stat that purports to measure all lemmy instances since we already know there are instances out there filled with thousands of bot users

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      What Lemmy needs now more than anything is commenters. If the site is to succeed, it needs robust comment sections.

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        It does need that, but it also needs dedicated posters for small niche communities that keep posting into the void so that when someone eventually stumbles over they won’t go “aw it’s dead here, I guess Lemmy isn’t for me” but will actually find some content to engage with instead.

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          Totally agree. Each sub top mod should submit one good post per day at a minimum.

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            Several of the niche subs I’m on on Reddit didn’t even get one post a day, lol. I guess there’s niche and niche

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      I only miss one or two subs, all other places I used to engage with are here and active. I would say there are less bots here.