My favourite part of Reddit were comments. Almost every time they were better than the post itself. Yeah quality was kinda low, but you could find some meaningfull discussion or useful information. On Lemmy every post in my feed has maximum 10 comments. Where can I find more?
You’ve got one right here!
Sort /all by Active
This is also a great tip, you need to change your sorting habits. But that also depends on the instance you signed up for if I’m correct. If you’re on a smaller instance you’ll only see content on the fediverse that others on the same instance interact with(and vice versa).
Be the change you want to see! Start commenting and others will come.
So right, I remember years ago participating in so many different communities or forums online. Since then I’ve just been a lurker consuming content like everyone else without actually communicating or creating anything myself.
My first comment tonight I stated I feel like a kid in high school screwing around on the internet again.
I love that this network is smaller that anything we’ve been used to or exposed to in years, I actually feel the want to participate and to me that’s important.
Right, why participate if it’s just going to be buried under the mountain of other content.
Lemmy doesn’t as many accounts and people participating as in Reddit. But the more you participate the more you motivate people to do as well, because it can create the start of conversation.
Also…
Choose “active” or “hot”.
Wouldn’t “most comments” be the obvious choice? I never did that but isn’t it what OP wants?
Edit: I’ve tried it and it shows posts that are weeks old which makes sense. Maybe “most comments per day” would be cool but for now, “most comments” isn’t that useful
It would be useful if there was a time setting on the “most comments sort” like there is on sorting by top. “Most comments today” or “this hour” would get you the most talked about posts, while “Most comments this year” might show the posts that reflect major events or at least thing which are culturally important to the fediverse at large.
My instance shows far less comments than the original instance. Somebody knows why?
The instance where I am federates normally with any other instances, but always notice there are far less comments and need to follow the original instance’s link so I can read all the comments.
