this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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Mildly Interesting

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This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 124 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Most users are in US or western Europe timezones I would guess.

Although you could say the whole planet has a bit of a heart beat. Surely there are fewer people awake when the Pacific ocean faces the sun?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago

the whole planet has a bit of a heart beat.

[–] Phillmebucket@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

My guess would be this is one of the few major bots that ramp up its posting during Prime Times. I've been trying to use the fediversee for almost a year now and I check post multiple times a day, everyday. The vast, and I mean upwards of 90% or more of the post in my feed are just repost bots from Reddit or news aggregator bots. I'd be surprised if more than 10% of the post generated come from actual humans. I'm sure some of the server owners could give us much more insight on this with post by IP statistics. But my guest regardless is human interaction is pretty low.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Turn off bots in your profile and then ban the two or three bots that aren’t marked as bots and your feed will improve immensely. I forget that there even are bots on this site until someone mentions it in a comment.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I come more for the commentary not the source honestly.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 14 points 6 months ago

You can just block bot users when you see them. In my experience, it's not a big problem.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’d be surprised if more than 10% of the post generated come from actual humans.

I have the opposite impression, that's interesting

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

If you check posts that have low upvote amounts, (say 0 - 20) you are more likely to see this phenomenon, especially in the technology communities.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Definitely a high presence of US users and the occassional (western) European among all.
Most of the times they represent themselve through their instance.

But it's the same as with Reddit: Mentioning a thing without mentioning a country = US.

[–] Jourei@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

Ah, my favorite way of trolling when I felt like it. Dispute something and eventually go "Ah, sorry didn't know you were US specific with this" when I finally learn the revelation.