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At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven't even been on lemmy that long.

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[โ€“] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's what you get with smaller communities, you tend to see the same people over and over.

[โ€“] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used to be active on one of my country's most popular forums, if ranked by daily visits. Self-help Q&A style. Apart from me, there were pretty much only three users contributing about 90% of the content. One of them being the only mod. It took me years to figure out, from the timing and the writing style of the posts, that this mod also poses nearly all of the questions and gives all of the first answers too, using a new single-use sock puppet each time.
At the start of this year, it devolved into plain attention whoring and it was really sad, so I left.

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