At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven’t even been on lemmy that long.
There are prolific posters and some bots that post nearly half of the content that gets popular on a particular day. Commentors I think there’s a healthy mix of regulars and users I don’t recognize.
I block the bots when they show up. One whole community stopped showing on my feed when I did that.
There are entire instances that are nothing but Reddit repost bots.
Yuck. Thankfully I’m not seeing too may yet on my several instances. If you care to share publicly or in DM, so I can block them, I would be so grateful. Thanks either way.
I just checked my blocked instances. zerobytes.monster is the only one I know for sure. Couple of others I’m not sure why I blocked. Most of them are to filter out languages I don’t read from the All view. Possibly lemmit.online.
I don’t pay much attention to user names so I haven’t noticed
Like friends!
there are dozens of us
The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!
Reddit is worse but they use puppet accounts so you can’t easily tell.
/TinfoilHat
Hello! :D
I pop in every month or so. I’ll see ya around!
Everyone on lemmy is a bot except you.
I notice a lot of the same people in most of the popular posts. I guess it’s because the quantity of people that usually comment vs voting or just reading post is pretty low, so you’ll start to recognize them everywhere
It makes me wonder if people recognize me from other posts I comment on!
Yes. Don’t look at usernames.
Like the others said, the ratio of posters/lurkers on most social media sites is 10/90, and i think that lemmy is on the better, more active side of things. in a 30k community that means that you will see about 300 people commenting regularly, and 30 of them will be very active.
i also like the smaller scope here, fewer comments mean that my opinion will be engaged with more.
I rarely commented on reddit, because one little comment in a swarm of 2500 will not even be noticed. It’s different here, and i wrote over 400 comments this year! i maxed out at about 100 on reddit because my comments wouldn’t even be noticed most of the time if i didn’t filter by new.
There’s one user that seems to be everywhere and it’s probably the same user everyone is thinking of right now lol.
I’m also surprised I come across other “agents” on here more frequently than I would expect.
Ye, and I’m mostly fine with it (I just wish this place had more stuff that wasn’t necessarily political, like “interests” type of stuff like comicbooks. We have some, and thankfully Linux is a big one, but I just wish there was more!)
Don’t saw much in English, but in French yes it looks like we are 3 or 4 users
Ouais…Camus est omniprésent haha
