I’ve been wondering if we’re losing users. My “Everything” feed sorted by Active is full of posts with zero comments, and a great deal of them are just news article links that were probably automated.
Active is kind of a lackluster sorting method imo, Hot is awesome bc you get fresh posts (like Trending on that other site) aside from a couple 3M old posts that show up, Top 6h, 12h, Day are good too. New comments is cool if you want well engaged posts.
I recently joined lemmy, because fuck reddit. And that’s the first thing I saw. Lots of posted articles without comments.
What do I do to combat that? Posting comments xD
I’ve been wondering if we’re losing users. My “Everything” feed sorted by Active is full of posts with zero comments, and a great deal of them are just news article links that were probably automated.
Active is kind of a lackluster sorting method imo, Hot is awesome bc you get fresh posts (like Trending on that other site) aside from a couple 3M old posts that show up, Top 6h, 12h, Day are good too. New comments is cool if you want well engaged posts.
Thanks for the recommendation. I assumed active meant people were engaging, but I guess up-dooting counts as engagement.
Yeeeah just after Reddit died all kinds of people were there, now it’s just the usual Linux users and the scripts creating fake traffic
It why i default sort to hot, and longterm browse by top 12H
And many of those are reposts.
I recently joined lemmy, because fuck reddit. And that’s the first thing I saw. Lots of posted articles without comments. What do I do to combat that? Posting comments xD
I’ve found a lot of user generated posts here to contribute to, but the article thing has started occurring more often recently.