balderdashTo all the people complaining about content on Lemmy
thantikBecause it’s like a dozen fucking people who post 90% of the content. I blocked like, I dunno – 20 people, and it took care of MOST of the weird ass fetish stuff popping up in my feed, leaving the odd cutie here or there.
I’d rather have a severe lack of farmed content, for a lot more genuine posts. Regardless of if it’s “dead” or not. If I see users with like 20k post points, and 100 comment points, I block them.
If there was a way to automatically do this (only show content from users with a certain ratio of posts to comments), I would.
willyaSo if you post content and never comment you should be blocked? Weird way of operating.
How is that weird? Most normal people comment far more than they post content. It’s content and link farmers, as well as bots who have the ratios that they do when it comes to posts vs comments.
I'm doing it to drive traffic to communities I run (and the platform in a more general sense). I'm not a bot, I don't care about personal upvotes or boosts. Small reddit-like sites need content.
Keep doing what you’re doing. I don’t know what their problem is.
Stamets [Mirror]Right? “I don’t like people who post a lot.” Dude. It’s a fledgling site. Reddit openly admitted to fleecing traffic when it was starting out but this dudes angry that users are engaged with Lemmy and wanna help it grow and provide content?
Guessing the dude has me blocked already and there’s not going to be anything of positive value lost from my comment sections.
InEnduringGrowStrongYou’re doing good work and you don’t deserve such hate or bullshit.
Eh, it is what it is. Some people are just miserable assholes who want to inflict it on everyone else. Says everything about them and nothing about me. The fact that I’ve got trolls following me around and downvoting everyone of my comments or messaging everyone in a thread to lie about me is just proof I’m doing something right.
I mean, content is great – and you’re not a person I’d consider for blocking. Your ratio of content to comments is lopsided toward the content, but it’s not like these guys with 400k post and 2k comments. There’s a threshold. I block people who aren’t genuinely interested in communication on the platform.
It’s an image host. What host do you prefer?
Bro I post relentlessly because I am suicidally depressed and being able to help make other people happy makes me feel less shitty. I think it’s kind of an insane take to say “If someone posts a lot then they’re content/link farmers” as if there aren’t a thousand different reasons why someone would post.
That’s just making some wild assumptions while being toxic as hell towards those you don’t know.
sweetviolentblushDon’t listen to them, you do good work friend. I know holidays can be rough, if you need a sympathetic ear I am just a private message away
Swedneckyou really took that personally and couldn’t resist outing yourself, huh?
No I comment quite a bit and try to be helpful.
StrikerYou can post a fuckton and still be “geniue” like most of my shitposting is shit I see on Instagram. The fact of the matter is if there was no content then this site would go dead. And then you’d leave. Do you see the catch 22 of your attitude? Honestly, you seem like a extremely pretentious person. The kind of person that just looks for a vague idea of perfection and lives in a perpetual state of disappointment when nothing matches it.
sagSo I’m blocked?
eezeebeeWhat band is this?
Shit, they’re standing right behind me, aren’t they…
Avanke Ⓐ🏴I’m in danger !
Pff, I’ll have you know that I created a single post in the past 5 months. I’m doing my part!
𝔗𝚎𝚑 𝔅𝚊𝚖𝚜𝚔𝚒Yeah… You’re doing your part. Your part to the power of .05! HA!! GOT’EEEM!
Hahahaha. But seriously, I get it. Finding good/great content isn’t that easy. But that’s one of the best things we can do as an instance collective. Commenting adds to the discussion and can also enrich the posted content as well.
But I only scroll here!
samus123454 posts. You got me beat!
They posted the complaint, didn’t they?
BeigeAgendaIt’s the new bean meme, quick someone combine “not enough content”+beans+stroganoff+Stör
𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒Oh hey Balderdash, good to see your posts again :D
You’re a real one Exusia 🫡
Why did they lean forward?
FARTYSHARTBLASTDon't look at me: Complaining is too much effort.
Godric0 Posts
Oy! I’ll have you know, I’m a professional leech.
I try my best :)
kintherSometimes I’m the only one posting in some smaller communities. I looked back one day and was like, shit those are all from me.
You wouldn’t like my content anyway
Hiro8811Dunno what to post. Got nothing really interesting going on in my life
Just post about what you find interesting and try to put a funny spin on it. I’ve made posts about all sorts of topics/cultures that I’m genuinely curious about whenever I make an observation that I think could make people chuckle.
OkokimupI’m going to keep posting this everywhere it’s relevant: if you downvote oc, you are discouraging more people from posting.
What the hell am I supposed to post? Where do you think I get content?
Margot RobbieYou are suppose to post about future Oscar winning movie, Barbie, silly!
ValeenaSame thing here: as much as I wouldn’t mind to post, I just don’t know what !!
PirkyFind anything, really. Look at your interests and hobbies and share your experiences with those.
I’m sharing photos I take in multiple communities: cats, aww, toads, birding, etc. I also periodically comment in the communities I’m subbed to so others have things to reply to.
Be the change you want to see in your community.
Maybe the default mode for new users should be top-6h. I’ve been using it for a while now and the flow of content is perfect.
Oh man did not realize Liftoff had a setting for this. Top 6h default activated.
It’s amazing how many of those posters have zero posting history. Comments or posts.
Should we just start teasing people for having 0 posts?
No. What a fucking insane leap to make.
XusonthaListen, I had a good streak of star trek memes until my life became pure chaos
punkcoderI know that I for one am probably alone here, but I’m really getting tired of the meme only content. I get it, it’s funny but in most cases it just turns lemmy into a tumblr clone with furries and nsfw (so like an old tumblr clone).
I’m not so much a posting type of guy as I’m a commenting type of guy. Does this count?
Where am I gonna post? One of the 12 meme communities that make up 99% of posts, or one of the 12,000 communities where the last post was four months ago and it had two comments, one of which was a bot summary?
SynapseYou can go to one of the 120 linux communities to brag about your arch desktop rice!
The fact is that if you arent into Linux, piracy, shitting on Elon or communism a lot of Lemmy is pretty shit.
I was super active on Reddit in a lot of communities that are just straight up wastelands here.
Are you complaining about the niche communities not having any activity, but not posting anything there yourself? I could’ve sworn i saw a meme about just such a thing, if only i could find it.
But in all seriousness, most “dead” communities have many lurkers that are joined but not posting, so posting there isn’t necessarily a waste of time
Are you complaining about the niche communities not having any activity, but not posting anything there yourself? I could’ve sworn i saw a meme about just such a thing, if only i could find it.
But in all seriousness, most “dead” communities have many lurkers that are joined but not posting, so posting there isn’t necessarily a waste of time
Exactly. Look at my post history for example. I’ve posted to some larger communities like Cats, but also to smaller ones like toads, mushrooms, and mycology to try to breathe life into them or to keep them alive.
If you want to see more content in certain areas, be the change you want to see in the Lemmy.
I personally am 99% of the posts in one of said niche communities. Plants won’t grow if you don’t put effort into growing them, why would communities?
Who? Me?
A_Random_Idiotposting takes effort.
I dont want to make effort.
I just want to shit on other peoples effort. /internet