I’ve never considered that a limitation.
You only need one other person an addition to yourself, for a good discussion.
If anything, on Lemmy I’m finding I actually get replies, because I didn’t among a hundred others.
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vrek@programming.dev 1 week agoI agree and haven’t returned but lemmy hasn’t hit critical mass yet… Like I don’t recall a post with over a hundred replies. Reddit used to have over a thousand on every reply on the first page.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You only need one other person in addition to yourself for a good discussion
I never really thought of it like this despite it being obvious. Very well said
Jordan117@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Might be your settings. When I flip the front page to “Active” most of the posts have hundreds of comments (though I prefer setting it to “Top Six Hours”).
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I like “Hot” and “Top Six Hours” myself. “Scaled” and “New” aren’t bad if you’re looking for more content.
52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
I also sort by top six hours but subs related to my profession or religious traditions both get too much outside noise from folks who view posts by ‘all’ and feel welcome to flood subs with comments contrary to the intent of the sub. Active moderation could help but there’s just not good moderation under most subs.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Literally the next post under this one, sorting by 112h top posts, has 147 comments
flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Like 6 good ones and a bunch of the same tired comments about poop knives, broken arms, same, this.
Here, at least most of the answers are real human beings trying to contribute to a conversation.
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Reminds me of the scene in 300 when he asks how many warriors they brought. We brought real comments.
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You obviously weren’t here for the guy who didn’t want to poop for days. There were a LOT of replies on that one.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 week ago
Link?
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I wish i could, but this was 2 years ago, and once the post blew up huge, OP deleted it. Some Lemmy historian may have a copy, but alas, i do not.
Basically, OP posted a question where they said they didn’t want to poop during the upcoming weekend, and then asked how they could keep from pooping for three days. This was shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
The comments were very helpful, reasoned, and…Nah, im just kidding, they pretty much went the way you would expect, with lots of wild speculation about why OP didn’t want to poop for three days, and lots of “helpful” suggestions about how to not poop for three days.
Strangely though, i think the post did a lot of good, as it showed a lot of ex-redditors that Lemmy could work as a reddit replacement, and be just as goofy as the original.
Syrc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tbh I’ve decided I can live with less and less of this. I’ll never go back to the giant ad covered spaces. But if this doesn’t pickup or even dies, meh
merdaverse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean, does it really matter? Are you going to read 100 responses on a single post? I feel from Reddit that the larger communities get the shittier they get. More people = smaller intersection of common ground, which leads to dull content and repeating platitudes.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Legitimately who cares though? You‘re not in it for the money with Reddit either.
kungen@feddit.nu 1 week ago
How many of those thousands are actual good comments though? Last time I was there, I swear the majority of comments were from bots reposting the same comments that were in previous threads. It felt peak dead-internet.
nighthawkx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is often overlooked. The conversations are great on the niche or smaller communities available on reddit and the experience is great. But for the most part, frontpage and every other sub has been taken over by repost bots or repeated jokes or politics.
Civil_Liberty@lemm.ee 1 week ago
It is worse, I was convinced I was having discussions with AI multiple times. It seemed to me that they were using some subs for AI to post content and then interact with human and AI. It is another laboratory to train their AI.
ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 1 week ago
I used to help out in r/Botdefense
The amount of them was ridiculous and only because the makers made another bot to report them to use (with stats), could we even keep up. That was before greddy piggy spez shut down API access and now? Ewww
sloppychops@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Same complaint. Reddit posts with 100s or 1000s of replies were mostly a few good posts drowning in spam.
Halliphax@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Won’t the same happen to Lemmy when it gains enough traction?
kungen@feddit.nu 1 week ago
I think the lack of profile-wide “karma” is one benefit, so there’s not as much incentive to farm imaginary internet points and such with the same old zingers. Who knows, but hopefully not.
balder1991@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Many apps do display the user karma though.
bugg@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.
Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.
I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.
Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).