Why?
Edit: fixed the meme.
You mean one thousand upvotes and a comment? Lol I think the most upvote I have ever seen on a post was like 12k.
Why do we need to comment on everything? Some things I just agree/like, no comment
Exactly. If we son’t have anything to add besides what the upvote/downvote is already saying, we’d get endless “Same”, “This”, and “No” types of comments.
This!
Same
^ updooted
So true
+1
yup
+1
Because we wish you to communicate.
It’s for your own best.
B-TR3E the Enlightened,
Spiritual Leader of the Virtual Worlds
People keep saying “lemmy is dying Bluesky is dying” but maybe it’s the fact that the people who migrated to those sites were already burned on social media and know better than to start arguments on the internet.
How many times you guys start writing a comment and after some words just say:
Fuck it…
App: Are you sure? > Discard
?
Yes
I’m waiting for an LLM integrated Lemmy app that will let me click a button like “OP is wrong, write me a reply telling them so”
/s
“What a refreshing opportunity to boost engagement by confidently telling someone they’re wrong! Thank you for your bold and thought-provoking contribution — your feedback is not only valid, it’s downright essential for the thriving digital ecosystem we all pretend to enjoy. Let’s collaboratively acknowledge that OP is wrong, together.”
Bonus points for the em dash!
I was gonna say “90% of the time” but fuck it… Discard…
know better than to start arguments on the internet.
no I dont
Yes you do.
Stay out of this. This is between me and OP
But mom!
It’s my turn to play on the Xbox!
I just state truths its all the rest of you that are wrong.
This. And I want quality comments not rehashed memes or jokes.
I get a lot of thought provoking replies in Lemmy.
Less controversial comments that compel people to respond and argue with?
Larger portion of mature people on lemmy that can’t be bothered with bait?
Vote button is easy.
Commenting draws attention to yourself, which invites scrutiny and judgement. An upvote is (mostly) anonymous.
Also, upvotes take way less effort, always going to be more of those (unless a fight breaks out in the comments or something)
Coz we a lazy bunch. Deal with it.
Gen X here, can confirm
I thought we were supposed to say we are efficient, not lazy.
Whatever
For real
That’s a funny way to say that this place is not full of bots.
It’s well-known that there are levels of engagement with content, with fewer people doing the more involved things. Most people just scroll past everything. Single digits percentage upvote posts. Fewer go into the comments, and again maybe 10% of those participate in comments. The ratio of every level is different on different platforms, but it’s there.
For platforms with pretty quick flow like Reddit and Lemmy, the ratio naturally falls off hard. Something like Hacker News rewards slower and more thoughtful engagement with content and threads, so I’d guess they have a larger share of active commenters — although OTOH you don’t quite want to show up with mindless predictable comments like prevalent here.
Prior to bots, Reddit observed on many occasions the 90% rule:
90% of users just scrolled
Of the ones remaining, 90% only voted
Of the ones remaining, only 90% left comments
And finally, 90% of those left never posted.So, it’s expected to have 10x more votes than comments. Also I’ve never seen a post with more than like 1500 votes lol
The worst is that one of those comments is me, adding nothing to the conversation saying “same bro lmao”
Same dude, lmao.
Me too dude, lol.
same bro lmao
Same bro lmao
Same bro lmao
Probably a “good post, nothing to add” case.
Good post, nothing to add.
No need to add anything if it’s already perfect.
…perhaps the introverts are smarter than the fucks on reddit?..
Reddit has more bots arguing back and forth to encourage humans to engage.
…i stand by my comment…
Or simply here exist more lazy people. 🙃
Lazyenergy efficient.Valid point.
…por que no los dos?..
Sounds totally valid.
My comments tend to get way more engagement here than on reddit. People are just friendlier. When I’m funny, they make me feel like the man. On reddit you had to piggy-back on top comments just to get any hits, and half of them were just confrontational for no good reason.
It’s also because Lemmy’s sorting algorithms are much better. On Reddit, if you’re more than 6 hours late to a post, comments won’t get any interaction.
You can tell Lemmy is written by socialists, with upvotes being much more evenly distributed and less focused on the top 5% going viral.
on reddit there was a lot of bot generated commentary. like yes, bots posting comments but also users who wouldn’t have commented getting pulled into a “discussion” by a bot comment.
No comment needed if it’s that good.
Share an example or two?
