If all they are interested in is maximum engagement, let them stay on Reddit!
I’m here for community and real conversations, not “karma”
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2025
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Engagement is not karma. If you’re really into conversations, you should try to reach as many people as possible to get as many views as possible. Or are you content speaking to the same three people all the time?
Idk. I’m don’t measure quality with engagement. A lot of my better Reddit conversations were in smaller communities
/r/BuyFromEU has 167000 subscribers. They could have a pinned post with content similar to this one (https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j0xkqa/lemmy_as_an_alternative_to_reddit_using/) to at least make people aware of the existence of Lemmy.
Instead they want to prevent brigading (see my other comment with the screenshot, not sure how we can brigade with 54000 monthly active users on the whole platform), and remove threads mentioning Lemmy that become too popular: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39151408?scrollToComments=true
By the way, I see you are on populi, isn't the CSS broken for you at the moment? https://sopuli.xyz/post/23813390?scrollToComments=true
Not at all.
Thanks for sharing, I'll investigate
The problem with that idea is that once you reach a certain number of people you stop getting diverse views and just get the same type of views over and over. Large groups on a platform like Reddit prioritise fast and popular responses. Quick quips and memes posted by people who are spending all day scrolling will drown out any sort of reasoned argument that takes time to type and participation by people who only log in occassionally.
The comments in this post are so stupid..
Lemmy (and other Fediverse stuff) will naver replace things like Twitter or Reddit.
Why are you even on the BuyfromEU sub if you're setting the bar so high. Just give up lmao
Honestly props to OP (Blaze) for having the patience to comment over there
Yeah, I try to keep cool, but really sometimes the Reddit vibe really gets to me
The link was to https://feddit.uk/post/25543513
I appreciate how active you are on this community and that you link Reddit instances of Lemmy discussion, but best play the long game and not get banned from subreddits for doing it
Oh, I'm trying my best to not get banned.
I was more commenting on how often you forget how different the power split is on Reddit between users and mods compared to here.
me and the gang brigading reddit (we can't)
I don't think most of us are here seeking "maximum engagement" yk? I'm quite comfortable just getting a comment or two on a post and having long conversations (or arguments lol) in comment sections. The community of lemmy is really nice and I don't want it polluted by people who use it in the highly impersonal way people use reddit.
How do these people so easily forget that parallel communities exist on Reddit as well?
What's weird to me is that even after being reminded about it he carried on as if they don't exist?
Subscribe to all of them, duh. Problem solved.
And then when posting you simply cross-post. Or stick to the most active one. By then you already know which it is. (Unless you post mindlessly on whatever comm you find, without even lurking a wee bit before doing it. Then you're probably shitting Reddit and should stay there instead of shitting Lemmy.)
Crossposting gets pretty annoying for users who are also subscribed to all of them, though. Not that bad if it's only 2 communities, but at 5 it gets pretty annoying.
when posting you simply cross-post.
I'm usually against crossposting between similar communities for niche topics as it splinters conversations. Instead of having 10 comments of 3 or 4 people taking to each other, you have 3 comments split in one community each.
But I know it's always a debated topic.
A cool feature would be to enable community mods to "retoot" posts from other communities, keeping the comments together.
But then why not just consolidate similar communities in the first place
Because you can't control human beings? I'm not entirely sure what you mean. The entire reason the structure of ActivityPub and the Fediverse is what it is, is to have moderation not controlled by a single entity. Enforced consolidation is both impossible and would defeat the purpose.
Lemmy "communities" are structurally just modified user accounts. So it seems like it could be possible for one to "re-toot" a post similarly to how it can be done on Mastodon and elsewhere.
In this case the alternative is to post in the most active one. By then the user should already have a good grasp on which one it is, unless they post mindlessly.
That said I like cross-posting. Sometimes I see 3~4 people talking to each other in the different threads - but they're approaching the subject from a different angle, because of the specificities of each comm.
If the communities have actual differences, that can be interesting indeed
Sometimes it's just because none of them wants to consolidate, while they are actually identical
Reddit would never replace Digg or RSS feeds.
It would be nice if crossposted threads shared comments sections. I'm not sure what the technical hurdles would be, but I could see it leading to increased moderation workload for smaller instances.
There's no way to do so at the moment.
The only way to handle this issue is to consolidate communities.