Why?
Edit: fixed the meme.
The worst is that one of those comments is me, adding nothing to the conversation saying “same bro lmao”
on reddit there was a lot of bot generated commentary. like yes, bots posting comments but also users who wouldn’t have commented getting pulled into a “discussion” by a bot comment.
People keep saying “lemmy is dying Bluesky is dying” but maybe it’s the fact that the people who migrated to those sites were already burned on social media and know better than to start arguments on the internet.
How many times you guys start writing a comment and after some words just say:
Fuck it…
App: Are you sure? > Discard
?
I’m waiting for an LLM integrated Lemmy app that will let me click a button like “OP is wrong, write me a reply telling them so”
/s
I was gonna say “90% of the time” but fuck it… Discard…
I just state truths its all the rest of you that are wrong.
know better than to start arguments on the internet.
no I dont
Yes you do.
Show me show me
Probably a “good post, nothing to add” case.
Comment
cat
Thank you. Cat back to you.
AAAWWEEEEE THE FOOTSIES!!!
It’s well-known that there are levels of engagement with content, with fewer people doing the more involved things. Most people just scroll past everything. Single digits percentage upvote posts. Fewer go into the comments, and again maybe 10% of those participate in comments. The ratio of every level is different on different platforms, but it’s there.
For platforms with pretty quick flow like Reddit and Lemmy, the ratio naturally falls off hard. Something like Hacker News rewards slower and more thoughtful engagement with content and threads, so I’d guess they have a larger share of active commenters — although OTOH you don’t quite want to show up with mindless predictable comments like prevalent here.
Prior to bots, Reddit observed on many occasions the 90% rule:
90% of users just scrolled
Of the ones remaining, 90% only voted
Of the ones remaining, only 90% left comments
And finally, 90% of those left never posted.So, it’s expected to have 10x more votes than comments. Also I’ve never seen a post with more than like 1500 votes lol
If you only look at posts with the most upvotes, that’s what you get. If you look at posts with the most comments, you’ll see a completely different ratio.
Less controversial comments that compel people to respond and argue with?
Larger portion of mature people on lemmy that can’t be bothered with bait?
Vote button is easy.
No need to add anything if it’s already perfect.
Why do we need to comment on everything? Some things I just agree/like, no comment
+1
Exactly. If we son’t have anything to add besides what the upvote/downvote is already saying, we’d get endless “Same”, “This”, and “No” types of comments.
This!
Same
^ updooted
So true
+1
yup
Because we wish you to communicate.
It’s for your own best.
B-TR3E the Enlightened,
Spiritual Leader of the Virtual Worlds
Don’t sort by top if you want a high comment/upvote ratio. There are very good posts in the “Active” section with lots of upvotes.
You mean one thousand upvotes and a comment? Lol I think the most upvote I have ever seen on a post was like 12k.
Apparently, it’s a little over 7k and it’s about beans. I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans
that post happened during the time Lemmy had the most active users, so there is that
Also during the time Lemmy was most excited about beans. One of the golden ages, to be sure.
There was also the can’t poop guy
Let us not forget the I can’t poop for three days guy. That was just after the reddit api fiasco and helped cement Lemmy’s capacity for collective comedy.
Its depressing that I’m living through another golden age… Last time it was reddit, before that it was msn messenger. I can’t even remember what was before that. Probably chisels and slabs of rock.
What the fuck are you talking about, Jesse?
During the initial reddit migration, Lemmy/Kbin had a larger active userbase than it does now. It fell off a bit after a little while, though its slowly creeping back up there with a more committed community.
But basically there were more users to upvote beans at that point
Man, I wish the dev of Kbin had let people help him. It was, by far, my favorite instance and style of threadiverse.
No, I don’t really find Mbin the same, sadly.
Just lamenting what was haha
Same lol. Here since the ‘beginning’
It’s been a long road…
The transition away from “the bad place” has done me a lot of good. I’d only been a lurker and occasionally commented prior. Finding the fediverse Trek community, at least as I initially saw it (old Risa), encouraged me to engage in what has now become a much loved hobby.
Is that what kicked off the beans era? That was some good times.
Don’t forget the Jeans era
I designed and bought a jeans wrap for my PlayStation controllers because I thought it would be funny for a meme post. They took forever to arrive, looked absolutely awful, and didn’t stay on.
Lesson learned, don’t buy those sketchy upload a picture controller wraps.
Don’t remind me of the jeans era.
Link to post or fake
I deleted my older accounts, and I didn’t post it because it looked really stupid
This was the design, I couldn’t find photos of the actual wrapped controller. It covered the black part of the controller.
I see the same, top all time post with 8112 upvotes
I wonder if it has anything to do with what instances your instance is federated with
That is exactly what it has to do with
Do instances count votes differently or separately? I don’t even know.
Yeah, it’s sort of an odd part of the threadiverse. Every instance calculates based on what they’re notified of which means the age of the server along with what other instances it’s federated with impacts the count
The federation of votes makes sense for potentially mitigating bad actor instances with false votes. Like if a new instance spun up and falsified their votes it could be negated easily by defederating.
Having differing votes is like having differing communities based on subscriptions. Just a necessary side effect of picking and choosing what gets shared when federated.
Good question. How many upvotes does it have on your end?
7.135
i don’t think this is, or ever has been, a thing.
Coz we a lazy bunch. Deal with it.
Gen X here, can confirm
I thought we were supposed to say we are efficient, not lazy.
Whatever
For real
