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If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by GatoB@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join

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[-] blackstampede@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I've been a lurker on reddit for the most part and it seems easier to talk on Lemmy. I guess because it's a smaller community, or because your instance feels a little more private.

[-] dystop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

part of it may be that reddit has become so big it's almost like shouting into the void.

Once a post has >300 comments, the only way to have a meaningful conversation is to add to the top-level comments. And soon the top-level comments are all nested with relevant and irrelevant comments.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, the comments here are far better.

[-] Carlspanks@latte.isnot.coffee 2 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be a better idea to sort by new instead of popular?

[-] dystop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

that's the thing - not all new comments are high-quality either.

There's a balance between new and popular (so number of upvotes over time for example). But the problem is that you need to constantly change the scale with your userbase. For a site with 10,000 users, (number of upvotes / number of hours post was created) may work, but a site with 1 million users may need to use a factor of 10, a site with 100 million users may need a log scale, etc.

[-] robonps@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it definitely feels like there is less pressure in commenting

[-] zipdog@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

same! I almost never commented on reddit but I've felt a lot more comfortable being active here. Something about the size of it led me to always be of the opinion that 'whatever I'm thinking, it's already been said'.