Since a lot of folks sort by “all” on Lemmy, popular posts get overwhelmed by people who don’t daily drive operating systems like iOS or MacOS.

I like outside perspectives and all, but when the majority of the “community” discussion is coming from people who aren’t even using these products, it is pretty hard to have informed conversations.

Moreover, I feel like this type of engagement creates a lot of threads that get pretty combative and catty. They’re often started by people who are trying to argue and convince iOS / MacOS users that they’ve picked the wrong side of the fence.

Anyone else feel me on this? I imagine this is a problem for other communities on Lemmy as well.

  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
    27·
    8 months ago

    What do you mean my lurking? You posted 5 times today and apart from a 2 week break you took (vacation?) you at least post daily and amassed 600+ comments in 10 Month.

    • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialEnglish
      32·
      8 months ago

      Sure, I did make a couple comments between today and yesterday, including this one, so I’m not sure where the “gotcha” is here.

      I signed in yesterday to check how a deletion script of mine would work and decided to scroll around. Yesterday I saw a social security thread that was some news I didn’t come across yet, and today I saw this thread in my list of active threads as I tabbed back and it piqued my interest.

      If you’re curious about my future activity:

      • In a day or two I’ll be making an announcement post in an announcements community saying I have a tool to help purge user posts
      • In about a week-10 days I’ll make a final “hey! this instance is shutting down real soon!”