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Time for us lurkers to step up and post! (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’m really hoping the Lemmy community reaches its potential! But to achieve that, I realize it’s important to contribute to the content. As a chronic Reddit lurker, I’m going to do my best to comment and post to help this platform grow. It’s hard to break the habit of being a creepy voyeur after 10 years. Wish me luck!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welcome the circus. I read an interesting post that said Reddit has the bulk of the users for this type of social media, but the users who add value and post etc. are the ones you need. The users Lemmy needs to attract are not the crowd that lurks. It’s the crowd that posts and adds value. That is a much smaller group of users.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if Reddit hasn’t already started losing them. The post quality has dropped a bit and some of the comments are so confusing that it’s hard not to think they’re AI generated. They’re just nonsense.

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

Reddit has had a really bad (imo) bot problem for years. I'm sure at least some are AI generated comments trying to seem human, even if just to experiment with it.

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

Yeah, reposting bots have been rampant for a while. And I assume chat GPT and the like are about to make that problem WAY worse. That situation alone could cause a massive quality problem on Reddit. If a decent portion of active (human) users leave (or have already left), that would just magnify the issue.

I wonder if there is a threshold they’re going to hit where they hit a death spiral due to legitimate users leaving en masse. Hopefully.

On the other hand, people are creatures of habit and I could see Reddit surviving despite bots/ai/and associated quality issues.