Honestly not too bad from an understanding perspective but I’m finding there are clearly drawbacks to the federated model. All these spread out parallel communities on different instances with very little engagement. It feels very quiet compared to reddit, seemingly beyond just the smaller userbase.
I’m sure there’s way less bot activity too, mind you. I was always blown away by all the /r/AITAH (and other) posts with thousands of comments responding to clearly AI-generated scenarios. Is it bots all the way down? Are people throwing away thousands of hours in aggregate engaging with these things? Puzzling.
All these spread out parallel communities on different instances with very little engagement.
Yes, that’s a common very heated discussion on the platform. Some people are all for having all different versions of the same communities on as many instances as possible, when some other people advocate for some consolidation to gather the low engagement there is in on place.
On the other hand, some communities like [email protected] are focused on growing communities, and regularly you see people suggesting consolidation between similar communities to a single one.
I was always blown away by all the /r/AITAH (and other) posts with thousands of comments responding to clearly AI-generated scenarios.
Reddit’s numbers are definitely overblown. I’ll take a recent example because it’s easy to compare:
While the activity levels are definitely different, the subreddit is definitely not 10 times more active than the Lemmy community. Lemmy has people asking for recommendations or alternatives, and they would get 16 comments with suggestions, more than enough in this kind of contexts.
The most discussed topic on that community has 340 comments, all organic, no bot.
So yeah, not sure what we can conclude from this, but I thought that might be interesting.
Honestly not too bad from an understanding perspective but I’m finding there are clearly drawbacks to the federated model. All these spread out parallel communities on different instances with very little engagement. It feels very quiet compared to reddit, seemingly beyond just the smaller userbase.
I’m sure there’s way less bot activity too, mind you. I was always blown away by all the /r/AITAH (and other) posts with thousands of comments responding to clearly AI-generated scenarios. Is it bots all the way down? Are people throwing away thousands of hours in aggregate engaging with these things? Puzzling.
Hello,
Thank you for chiming in.
Yes, that’s a common very heated discussion on the platform. Some people are all for having all different versions of the same communities on as many instances as possible, when some other people advocate for some consolidation to gather the low engagement there is in on place.
This post for instance shows a bit of argument used by both sides: https://lemm.ee/post/57899132
On the other hand, some communities like [email protected] are focused on growing communities, and regularly you see people suggesting consolidation between similar communities to a single one.
Reddit’s numbers are definitely overblown. I’ll take a recent example because it’s easy to compare:
While the activity levels are definitely different, the subreddit is definitely not 10 times more active than the Lemmy community. Lemmy has people asking for recommendations or alternatives, and they would get 16 comments with suggestions, more than enough in this kind of contexts.
The most discussed topic on that community has 340 comments, all organic, no bot.
So yeah, not sure what we can conclude from this, but I thought that might be interesting.