Be the change you want to see! Start commenting and others will come.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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So right, I remember years ago participating in so many different communities or forums online. Since then I’ve just been a lurker consuming content like everyone else without actually communicating or creating anything myself.
My first comment tonight I stated I feel like a kid in high school screwing around on the internet again.
I love that this network is smaller that anything we’ve been used to or exposed to in years, I actually feel the want to participate and to me that’s important.
Right, why participate if it's just going to be buried under the mountain of other content.
You'd be better off talking to a brick wall than commenting on reddit on anything but small subreddits and expecting a reply.
Feels good to be seen here, and like you're actually contributing.
Lemmy doesn't as many accounts and people participating as in Reddit. But the more you participate the more you motivate people to do as well, because it can create the start of conversation.
Also...
Choose "active" or "hot".
Wouldn't "most comments" be the obvious choice? I never did that but isn't it what OP wants?
Edit: I've tried it and it shows posts that are weeks old which makes sense. Maybe "most comments per day" would be cool but for now, "most comments" isn't that useful
It would be useful if there was a time setting on the "most comments sort" like there is on sorting by top. "Most comments today" or "this hour" would get you the most talked about posts, while "Most comments this year" might show the posts that reflect major events or at least thing which are culturally important to the fediverse at large.
Sort /all by Active
This is also a great tip, you need to change your sorting habits. But that also depends on the instance you signed up for if I’m correct. If you’re on a smaller instance you’ll only see content on the fediverse that others on the same instance interact with(and vice versa).
It depends on what communities and the instances those communities are on. That includes the intentions of the communities themselves. Some are just bots relaying information(certain news communities, tech communities, etc).
So that’s important, and then on top of that it’s important to remember the fediverse is growing, while it’s been around for a number of years it’s still very much new to bunch of people. The amount of users or members compared to twitter, or Reddit(which I’m a refugee from), or facebook, etc is tiny.
So the fediverse is growing and while I love it right now, more and more folks will sign up on different instances and if everything works out the engagement will increase.
Like everything, it will take time. Right new, there are a lot of new communities that just need content to get eyes on them. Once more people are comfortable with how to use Lemmy, they'll start engaging more.
I agree that the comment sections were the real treasure of reddit, and I hope to see that liveliness here too.
You've got one right here!