There's like 5 people that are firehoses of content that are keeping lemmy alive.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
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Yeah they're doing a huge service to the Fediverse. I've had a few times where I saw posts from the same people across totally different communities to the point where I'm wondering if they're actually interested in all these subjects or just posting for the sake of it.
After a while, it doesn't even matter. It creates a sense of community, making this place nice for new people to join. So it's good.
I see a lot of the same people, recognize the names. I argue with some, know I'll agree with others. I like it. It harkens back to old forum days for me. Reddit may as well be anonymous1 talking to anonymous2, maybe outside of some more niche subs, but here, I can comment on a post about corn and recognize a few of the names who are also commenting.
Beehaw thinks I should post less though.
keep going
Never stop Sunshine
Beehaw still exists? Didn't they want to leave Lemmy, like 2 years ago?
That would explain all the shitposts and memes. 😛
I would say it's more 500 than 5
I make it a point to post a few articles every day.
Not a firehose, but I'm doing my part.
Well, 4 after FlyingSquid left.
Nice post, and thanks. I usually only comment and vote but have not created posts yet. That is my goal for 2026, to post at least one thing. I'm scared of the potential hateful insults I would get for posting something but I can be a dick sometimes, so I get it.
If you commit to making a post, I commit to being nice to you and not being a jerk.I try not to be like that in general and appreciate people's willingness to contribute.
I've found that near every post I've made only has nice comments. Unless it is political lol, but thats par for the course. I believe in you!
Thanks!
I fear only one thing. That I will be too bland/boring or what I deem in any way interesting won't be. Or that it will be and I'd get overwhelmed with amount of comments and wouldn't be able to reply to even third of them and would come off as a dick or a bot :< That and I am well aware I am not compatible with most of lemmy so yeah.
I post a lot and don't usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.
The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.
Start by posting a pic of a pet. You'll get upvoted and will get over your fear. If people do downvote or complain, just let it roll off and try again.
I try, mostly through comments and votes.
Nobody really cares what I have to say.
The amount of upvotes you get on your posts says something different
It's the internet, if you have something worth saying say it, someone will find it useful in the future.
That's what I just did.
Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet
Do we really need more petty debates? 😅
Yes we do, prove me wrong!
I don't know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it's just better to express them (on the Fediveree)! 😁
It's like, how in some movies and shows people have "meaningless" discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don't behave in a toxic way, it's just a way to connect and share ideas!
And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁
More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄
I find that people on the internet are largely incapable of level-headed discussions.
There are days where ei literally don't even have time to read anything, let alone posting.
But I'm not a lurker.
I've never been one to post much on any social media platform but on Lemmy I try to make it up by upvoting things I want to see on the platform and commenting to get discussions going.
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I comment. Reminds me of how I'd end up playing medic in tfc/tf2- someone has to do it.
I don't post original stuff often, though.
I love the goal this port is trying to achieve, and I try not to be negative about content. But lately I’ve seen the kind of gate keeping that is souring people on that other site.
I’ve had 2 fairly recent examples of it. In one case, the community pushed back on the poster for being an ass. They repeatedly doubled down, and were repeatedly called out for it. It was good to see.
The second was a mod applying a definition to a community that doesn’t exist in its stated rules. I haven’t finished with that one yet, but depending on how my response plays out, I’ll be done with that community, and I’ll just go back to that other site. The particular community is excellent both here and in R-world, so I won’t miss much by saying goodbye to it on Lemmy. I’ll be sad, though.
Can you not recreate that same community on a different instance with the rules that you want?
Yeah you can, and if the community you made is better it will overshadow the worst
I'd like to suggest removing timestamps on all comments, like you could still toggle a button to see the timestamp of a comment if you wanted to, but the timestamp shown on default doesn't serve any purpose other than tell the users how fresh or how stale the conversation is. When the conversation is say only a few hours old, many users will choose not to engage because we assume the conversation is over and there isn't any point in engaging further, so we skip altogether and move on. I can tell from my own experience I've done this more than a few times, I'm sure others have as well. When you only have a few thousand users across the world, unlike Reddit, we must preserve the freshness of the few conversations we do have so as to increase engagement from all.
On the other side I don't want to engage in discussions that are over. The Threadiverse is organized in a wayz where new content is favored in your feed. Of course there are discussions that stretch over a couple of days, but after, they die. And I think this is just the way it works, it is not meant to show all posts ever made in an equal way.
Right, they are not meant to show posts in equal manner - freshness & hotness do matter in engagement and are indeed shown higher compared to other posts and comments. But still, a few posts from last night might have only a couple of comments, but since it's already a few hours old, we don't reply or engage with it. We judge engagement by these timestamps and so removing timestamps will lift engagement on all posts & comments.
I guess this also has to do with user amount in general. The more users are active in the Threadiverse, the more users would engage with these posts.
You are on PieFed, so you can always use a bit of custom css to make them go away. Pop this snippet into the custom css field of your user settings:
.comment_time {
display: none;
}
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