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Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473

Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

IMHO, the other part of the problem is that spicy hot-takes quickly get engagement from other users and bubble up to the top. And a lot of those spicy comments are trash, but not in violation of rules, so mods leave them up.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can see that clearly with both Twitter and reddit. There is no worse feeling than spending time to write something with thought only to not have anyone interact with these posts at all, while tired one-liner and ragebait gets a ton of likes and comments.

    However, Lemmy's algorithm doesn't really punish writing long form contents the same way reddit does from my experience, so I feel more free to take a little bit longer to write out my thoughts here compared to elsewhere.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    One way I thought of to encourage long form content and high quality, is to limit the number of short form content from users.

    I imagined every week users would be granted 14 comments that are limited to 250 characters and unlimited long form content. You could also grant more short form comments with every long form comment or with every new oc post.

    The only issue would be that long form does not mean high quality and with chatgpt it'll be easy to create long form posts. Maybe an AI system that evaluates the quality of the post could work but then gaming the system would happen.

    Just a thought I had, the numbers about the length and amount of posts could be optimized or use an AI

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Just saw a meme the other day about how the old mantra "Don't feed the troll" seems to have fallen by the wayside and about 90% of the issues on the internet right now are caused by that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    This is a big thing killing my interaction with Lemmy as well. I want to like it, but I drop into a discussion thread and the top-engaged/boosted comments are spicy and almost designed to promote maximum anger. And I feel like, "Do I really, really want to spend significant time writing out a deeper comment to engage with this community...?"

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