this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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I think lemmy has a lot of potential, we are just lacking the flood of content that Reddit has. But as this the API changes just went into effect, I feel like new users are still learning the ropes of lemmy and it will be some time until we have that endless stream of content. So it is important for us all to be as active as possible to help reach that goal faster
I don’t think it’s the content — there’s already Reddit reposting bots available. It’s the lack of comments which makes Lemmy feel more lonely/less active. I wonder what the average non-bot comment count is for most posts on r/all
I kind of like the lower comment count. It sucks when there are literally no comments, but for me, I'm much more inclined to leave a comment when there aren't too many already. Plus I found most comments were really low effort jokes. For every well thought out comment, there were a million 'this' type comments.
Piggybacking your comment here to say we need to be active as well as donate to our instances. It ain't free, after all.
Is it just me or does anyone else not feel any different on the fediverse after migrating? I feel like this has to do with me sticking to my own communities, browsing r/all or by popular was something I only did occasionally.