Ulrich

No, what was said was that “Groups are Lemmy and hashtags are for Mastodon”.

…no what? You didn’t contradict what I said. There was no “can’t” in that statement.

No one said you can’t. They said they make sense in their own contexts. The interface is different. Plus I don’t need my inbox blown up with notifications from a dozen Mastodon users tagging me unnecessarily.

OP doesn’t always respond either. Good news is there are lots of other people who can see your comments and reply to them.

What is it that you think drives engagement when a human posts a link vs. a bot?

A bot that posts links to external content isn’t driving engagement or fostering discussion, it’s just sending people to other sites.

Every post on Lemmy has a comments section, even the ones with external links…

Browsing All and seeing post after post of links with no discussions is just depressing

You can be the change you want to see in the world.

As long as we’re suggesting improvements for Masto:

1. Remove character limits. This forces users to either not fully explain themselves or to break their post down into 5 different posts which then have to somehow be assembled by the reader. GoToSocial raises this to 5000 as the default. If someone posts >500, by all means, collapse the post.
2. Stop fucking tagging literally anyone who was ever involved in a thread. I don’t understand why this is a thing. It just makes every message super cluttered and makes me not want to get involved in any discussions for fear of having my notifications blown up with irrelevant BS at any time.

Okay I was being hyperbolic. The vast majority of Lemmy is links.

The linked content itself drives engagement.

The point of posting it on Lemmy is to surface interesting content via community votes and foster discussion.

That’s like, all of Lemmy. What are you expecting?

Requiring people to create an account just to see anything is a sure way to immediately drive off any potential new users.