My name is LemonParty and I approved this message.

If Reddit is toxic to you, then you must be one of them.

Well that’s not very nice.

What metric do posts with no user engagement push though? From an analytics standpoint I don’t see the value prop

I still use reddit for some of the niche and sports communities that just aren’t really present on Lemmy (or not yet at least). I only use old reddit, and I only use my front page or the multis I curated myself. One thing I’ve noticed a lot lately is posts with zero upvotes and usually zero comments appearing in hot, top, and best filters. Most of these are absolute trash posts that were clearly posted by a bot.

I do not understand what benefit they’re seeking by shoving bad posts with no positive feedback into these sorting options but it’s fuckin weird.

Describe the time when you were most ill.

Slider. He looks like a slider!

I posted (from an alt account) five articles (not just tweets, but legit stories) between my comment and yours. I’ll try to do that daily. I read enough articles via rss, no reason I can’t post them here for everyone else.

What should I post? Like legitimately, I’m mostly into sports, but short of copying what’s getting posted in /r/NFL and /r/hockey, what should I do? Or maybe it’s just that? Pick some of the best posts from those subs and bring them here organically (none of that dumb mirror/bot shit that discourages people from commenting)?

A better question might be why shouldn’t they? I’m not being pedantic (at least not intentionally) but if their defining characteristic is that they’re nothing special, just a simple Linux distro that does the basic shit easily enough and looks nice - that has major appeal to people unfamiliar with Linux looking to leave other OS’s behind. The vast majority of people that use an OS really have very little idea how it works or why. They just want some basic level of understanding and control over it.