Be the change you want to see! Start commenting and others will come.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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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.
Sort /all by Active
Like everything, it will take time. Right new, there are a lot of new communities that just need content to get eyes on them. Once more people are comfortable with how to use Lemmy, they'll start engaging more.
I agree that the comment sections were the real treasure of reddit, and I hope to see that liveliness here too.
You've got one right here!
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.
The fediverse (and Lemmy/kbin specifically) is both smaller than reddit and more spread out. So you aren't as likely to find threads with thousands of comments as you would on reddit.
Reddit is estimated to have over 500,000,000 monthly active users. Meanwhile, some estimates suggest Lemmy an kbin have about 60,000 monthly active users.
And when you make a post on Lemmy, you aren't posting to /r/gaming, with 37,300,000 subscribers and 9,500 currently online. You might be posting to https://beehaw.org/c/gaming which boasts 6,950 users per month or https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming with 942 users per month or https://lemmy.world/c/games with 1,150 users per month. Those 3 large-for-lemmy gaming communities combined see fewer users each month than reddit says is on /r/gaming right now.
There simply aren't enough people in the same space interacting with the same content to consistently have comment sections with the depth and breadth that you're used to.
As the other commenter said, you can seek out large comment sections by viewing federated timeline and sorting for it, but there's no guarantee the activity will be on posts you care about.