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.
Kinda yeah. BUT my comment to lurk ratio is still less than I did on Reddit. So even my few contributions are still more than I ever really did on Reddit.
more not less, isn’t it?
I don’t see that as a problem personally
A boon, really.
Yeah, that’s what you get with smaller communities, you tend to see the same people over and over.
Hello cousin! Wanna go bowling?
Only if you tell me what your name means
It’s a village vibe, grab onto the grapevine
I have no idea why you are talking about
With such a user pool you’d think I’d make someone laugh
Am I lemmy famous yet?
I almost never comment on anything. I imagine most users are like me.
Yes, I do see the same names popping up all the time.
That’s honestly crazy to me. What’s the appeal of lurking?
Sometimes what you were going to comment is already there, you updoot and move along.
To learn…
Not the person you asked but another lurker. Social interaction is hard, even posting this I’m having second thoughts about it, but I still like to feel like a member of the community.
Congratulations to you on interacting! I agree with everything you said.
I’m certainly not one of the lemmy celebrities, but I’ve got nearly 900 comments on lemmy where I doubt I had 100 on Reddit. Not going back to check.
Lemmy is a just nicer place to comment than Reddit: smaller audience, kinder communities, much less intimidating. I don’t consider there to be any pressure to make posts or to comment, but if you do, I doubt you’ll regret it.
Either way, I personally am happy to have you here.
Welcome to the community, fam!
There’s a certain group of users I tend to come across here regularly. I post a lot myself too but I also have a habit of making new account about once a year so that not all my messages are from one user. I doubt many would remember me.
I remember you
I like it. It feels more genuine
Smaller community, so the power users (like myself, FlyingSquid, The Picard Maneuver and others) will undoubtedly be more prevalent than the many, many other users that barely post at all.
Non respect
The council of elders
I do in fact recognize all those users including you
But do you recognize me!?
I don’t remember you, but i remember that post about google maps
I think it’s good that you don’t remember me. I always obey the rules of good grammar.
some of those are also the same kind of power tripping neckbeard discord mods we fled from by leaving reddit. (fragile ego ban incoming in 3…2…1…)
Why is it whenever I see a comment like this, the modlog always shows the person bitching about the mods having several sexist/racist/homophobic/misinformative comments that have been removed…? 🤔
the same kind of power tripping neckbeard discord mods
I’ll never understand the intense and visceral anger some people on the internet have towards facial hair. Also really leaning into the 4chan-esque Everyone Online Is Dudes trope.
Because a neck beard isn’t facial hair. It’s neck hair. Neckbeards are usually indications of poor hygiene rather than some appreciation of facial hair
I can’t believe I’m defending neckbeards but…hey if Ringo Starr can rock the neckbeard, it’s not all bad!
And I’m sure loads of people with neckbeards have overall poor grooming and hygiene, but I’m also sure plenty have good hygiene.
Lol, Ringo does not look great in that photo and it’s partly due to the neck beard.
You wanna mod instead, go do it.
He has a point so do you lol
I don’t understand what neck beard means. I see it used, but I still can’t really figure out what it means. The other thing I don’t understand is incel, not that you used that word but it’s another one that I see used frequently that I don’t understand. Are the two related? Also, I’m old In case you couldn’t tell
Neckbeards: having “facial” hair that basically only covers the neck. It’s the idea that these guys who don’t have the facial hair to grow a full beard have poor hygiene.
Incel: Involuntary Celibate, shortened to incel. Someone who can’t get laid for one reason or another. The propblem being the people who generally self-identity as incel, who are usually toxic and sexist.
These aren’t necessarily linked, but incels are usually the type to have such poor hygiene as to have a neckbeard.
Ohhhh. Thank you!
I thought neckbeard referred to a hipster beard. That makes more sense now.
Weirdly, sex has changed in the last couple of decades. When i was young (back in my day 🤦) women could get laid anytime they wanted and men had to put in a little effort. So when i hear involuntarily celibate, i just think ‘don’t be a dick. You’re gonna have to work a little for it,’ but i guess they’re not getting any because they’re misogynistic?
From Wikipedia:
“Neckbeard” is a pejorative term and stereotype for an adult man or teenage boy who exhibits characteristics such as social awkwardness, underachievement, or pretentiousness.
And incels are described as:
An online community of young men who consider themselves unable to attract women sexually, typically associated with views that are hostile toward women and men who are sexually active.
Certainly not related communities but could conceivably overlap. Not surprising that a lot of Internet trolls fall into one of those categories.
Thank you. Yeah, i guess i could have googled. Mattres6s more sense to me now.
I post more on Lemmy since I think people will actually read what I wrote. I used to post a lot on Reddit too, but that was MANY years ago.
However one of the big reasons I post is to hopefully get the conversation started. I figure with zero comments someone is less likely to post. With one stupid comment, someone might respond.
edit: Sorry, I didn’t realize how long the gif went. I love the movie, but the gif kind of undermines your point in situ, I think. I feel nothing but positive things about the content of your comment.
Thank you for your contributions to the communities!
Thank you for the service!
Did you the guy from that maymay was like the coolest guy in the world? He was very important in educating about sustainable farming practices. His death was a real tragedy.
It’s a smaller neighborhood here dude.
Yep! We smol.
IllegallySmol
But so fierce.
Hey, it’s just the cold water.
“I was in the pool!”
“I’m a grower not a shower”…
“It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean”…
I see that now
cozy. lets just think of It as cozy, why don’t we… ahhh, much better!
Hey watch your hand!
Lemmy.world is defederated from the major Marxist instances, so you might want to join a different instance for a fresh look. Lemmy in general is small enough to be dominated easily, what helps this is finding a good instance and treating said instance like a community with different tags, rather than treating communities like subreddits.
I have an account on sh.itjust.works that i rarely use. Then again, do i want to see posts from Marxists, especially the ones defederated from .world?
Sh.itjust.works is also defederated. If you’re a liberal, then you probably don’t care for Marxism and Lemmy.world is going to be fine, the mods are anti-Marxism as well. You’ll just run into the same issue of having a few posters dominate is all.
I thought hexbear was marxist. Oh well i guess I’ll stick to seeing the same users
Hexbear is Marxist, yes, and is defederated with sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world.
