You can't force this stuff though. No-one wants a ton of vapid, low-effort comments put there just for the sake of it.

Most of us were little fish in the big pond called Reddit and our comments wouldn’t even cause a ripple, but now we have a chance to be big fish in a small pond and create waves 🦈

I'm definitely trying to lurk less here compared to when I used to use reddit.

I'd like to encourage more upvoting and boosting too! I like leaving comments, but I know not everyone does. The points from upvoting themselves don't mean anything, but it lets me know if my post is appreciated or if someone else's post is worth reading past the headline.

@euphoria That is my observation also. If we want to make Kbin an engaging community it’s incumbent on all of us to comment and post

@euphoria I agree, It seems like most people don't want to comment and interact which is really annoying when trying to build a Mag.

Agreed, although I must say the quality of the commentary here is far and above what I've seen on other social media, and I'd like that trend to continue.

I want to note that the value of Kbin increases exponentially as you engage and follow each other, and that Boosting can be particularly effective in bringing in more engagement from the Mastodon world.

Also (not sure if this is a bug @ernest), you should know how to get around the magazine filter in the drop-down on your threads and links submission page. If you click when in a kbin magazine or default kbin screen, the menu will only allow you to submit to kbin.social magazines on the instance, not any off-instance communities.

To get around this, go to the off-instance magazine you want to submit to, and it will auto-populate the correct target community on the other instance.

While I know that most of us are focused on expanding kbin.social in particular, spreading the load helps the servers and widens your audience, as well as potential followers, which draws them back to kbin.

Here is where I disagree with a lot of you guys' points. Even if the comment is lower effort, I still would read them and prefer it to be there than not. Even if it's less substantiated. I primarily acted as a lurker on Reddit for various reason and still enjoyed reading people's opinions and perspectives even if it wasn't "high quality". Even if it's just to get a picture of what people feel about something it still has value. I post comments, and posts that get upvotes and views, and that proves that it still has value.

I think it's a matter of content type. We have a lot of links to interesting articles or pictures of memes with no additional input from the poster. Those make me less inclined to comment. I just tend to upvote/boost and move on.

I think for more discussion/opinions, people need a spring board to jump off of.

Ok. Sounds good.

The comment at bottom of thread prevents me from commenting on a lot of threads simply because I don't want to scroll that far.

Sometimes you just don't know what to say that feels like it actually meaningfully contributes, y'know? Also complicates things that I have like 5 other small scale social medias im trying to nurture on top of my ADHD (and not all of them are even federated...). But I still try to chip in to add some spice.

Lots of angry folks out here; hard to get people involved when they see the "big contributors" going around brigading with no capacity for recompense, reporting or otherwise. I think we could get things moving a lot faster if we got rid of the downvote altogether; copying the Reddit way of doing things is... not great.