You shouldn't, you're teaching them bad behaviors. If you go to Canada and you're friendly to the Canadians they'll expect the same from other visitors and will get upset when they're mistreated and that will curdle their maple syrup and if that happens then they can't feed their cubs. It's better to just stay away from Canada.

Thank you! People keep saying “just search”, but honestly I've done various iterations of that (including subscribing the most popular lists) and its hard to find any non ghost towns.

"Has the largest" meaning a 3 comment average per thread. That's what the OC is talking about. The communities in Lemmy World are really small in a way that makes it hard to hold together a sub. A new movie comes out and maybe one or two people talk about it on Lemmy while Reddit has hundreds.

Then you might say, be the change you want to see, but Lemmy has a pretty small install base. Even if you participate, there isn't anyone to follow, because the users here are usually white collar tech folk. Hence the interest groups being tech and politics.