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More comments and engagement. See too many posts with zero comments. It’s the discussion and tangents about content that kept me scrolling over there.
I'd like people to make more posts rather than just comments. People are pretty good at commenting on posts that get made, but not so much at making posts themselves.
Reminds me of how Reddit had "Community Engagement Ambassadors" (or w/e they were called) who were paid to just go around making low-effort engagement-farming posts on random communities like "What's your favorite X in this game?" or "What do you think [sports team]'s greatest strength is?".
People tend to look down on that sort of thing in retrospect, but this sort of "manufactured engagement" is likely the key factor in Reddit's success as a platform.
I sometimes wonder if I (or just people in general) should start doing this on Lemmy as well, and whether the increased engagement would be worth the bad faith interaction.
I did a bit of that for the community I am trying to build, but I was genuinely interested and gave my own thoughts on the matter. I can't keep that kind of thing up forever though. I only care so much. 😵💫
We're also pretty good about replying to comments, but yes pretty shit about creating posts. Or communities. For instance I miss babyelephantgifs but I'm too lazy and incompetent to create/run it.