cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/22092764

Just a few years ago, you would never see such a disparity in votes vs comments. But these days, this is pretty much the norm. I’ve seen posts with 10K+ upvotes and no more than 80 comments.

I’d say in about 2 years, the entire place is going to be bots with AI generated content that try to mimic “real users” using their new Dynamic Product Ads tool. Not sure how that’s legal as I thought ads needed to be marked or differentiated from regular content, but here we are.

The future looks bleak and AI even bleaker. Because it’s going to be used against us to make the rich richer and not to make our lives better.

      • whoareu@lemmy.ca
        41·
        21 days ago

        there is still more activity than lemmy sadly. I don’t know when we will catch up :(

        • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
          9·
          21 days ago

          TBH, smaller communities with more engagement is better IMO. If you don’t get in early there’s no chance to do more than passively comment and get no reply. If I’m going to engage in conversation I’d like at least a little back and forth. Where the lack of volume really is felt is in niche subjects

          Dunno where I’m going with this, but your point is valid. I just kinda like the small web feel. Reminds me of early Internet days

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      Regardless of post type, there has been a fairly reliable trend of 100 votes per comment. You’d expect that post (3.9k up votes) to have roughly 390 comments. This had been the rule for Reddit site-wide for a decade, and applied to other sites too.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    21 days ago

    I basically did the exact opposite. I never press the upvote/downvote button, but I almost always leave a comment on the page whenever I have something interesting to say. I even reply to the replies I get. I have carried this behavior forward to Lemmy.

    And yeah, I was actually active in quite a few subreddits, that is, until the whole API thing happened.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      3·
      21 days ago

      Same. I do miss the community and the sheer volume and diversity of users, but I miss what it used to be, not what it has become.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      I basically did the exact opposite. I never press the upvote/downvote button, but I almost always leave a comment on the page whenever I have something interesting to say. I even reply to the replies I get. I have carried this behavior forward to Lemmy.

      This is just natural. You want to comment on threads to conversate, even if you don’t really agree or disagree with the article. If you like/dislike the article enough, you’ll up/downvote it and comment on it.