Comment on Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post.

RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a different model.

  Mastodon, like Twitter, is a person-centered setup. You can use hashtags, but most people don’t. You follow people not communities. As a result it’s basically microblogs, where most people are just posting into the void. Celebrities are followed more, so they get more replies, so there are more conversations. But, fundamentally it’s not really inviting interactions.

  Lemmy, like Reddit, is a topic-centered setup. It has a bunch of communities and people post something because they think it might be interesting for people who are also interested in that community. Every post is basically an invitation to have a discussion about something.

  I think the friction to posting something on Lemmy is slightly higher, but when you do, it’s more likely to generate comments.

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• Microw@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mastodon mainly only looks like there is no interaction happening because of their federating logic. Which is being worked on to be fixed sometimes this year

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  • openrev0lt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does that mean we would see more posts / accounts being recommended?

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    • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It means that if you see a post, you will finally see all replies and interactions to that post. Currently this is not working.

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      • scintilla@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh holy shit is that when I tried mastodon it felt like a ghost town with people only posting and no one engaging in discussions?

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      • openrev0lt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Got it, thanks for clarifying.

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  • RideAgainstTheLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When I post here I get replies. On mastodon I don’t.

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    • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I see that you have a very good quota of comments that you get on every lemmy post you make. I dont think that’s true for every poster, especially when posting to niche lemmy communities.

      But yes: of course the lemmy format invites comments way more than the microblogging format of mastodon

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