This is probably it. When I switch from Local to All, I still see primarily Hexbear posts and a few inactive posts from other instances (unless it's about Hexbear, and then its full of us).
I still see primarily Hexbear posts and a few inactive posts from other instances
Well, there's also a ton of stuff we don't see because it's posted to instances we are not federated with. When I look at Lemmy through the jerboa app (without sign-in) HB posts are nowhere near the top of the active/all sort. I see lots of threads with a much higher than the HB average vote count, and the posts at the top have outsized comment sections (which is usually where we show up) but there's just oodles of shit out there you won't even see logged in through HB.
I think we have 3x the number of posts of the next most active instance.
Others have pointed out that removing the downbear and encouraging discussions and shitposting means we usually say something instead of downvoting and moving on, which adds to our disproportionate onlineness.
I think you've vastly underestimated our posting power...
I think the wider fediverse is also significantly less active than us. What to us is a few threads is to them a bunch of their most active threads.
This is probably it. When I switch from Local to All, I still see primarily Hexbear posts and a few inactive posts from other instances (unless it's about Hexbear, and then its full of us).
Same, our powerlevel outstrips theirs by so much it's like we're pulling them into our orbit with our gravitational mass
Gravitational ass
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Well, there's also a ton of stuff we don't see because it's posted to instances we are not federated with. When I look at Lemmy through the jerboa app (without sign-in) HB posts are nowhere near the top of the active/all sort. I see lots of threads with a much higher than the HB average vote count, and the posts at the top have outsized comment sections (which is usually where we show up) but there's just oodles of shit out there you won't even see logged in through HB.
the default active sort also works against them too, shit's been a scourge for us at times too
I think we have 3x the number of posts of the next most active instance.
Others have pointed out that removing the downbear and encouraging discussions and shitposting means we usually say something instead of downvoting and moving on, which adds to our disproportionate onlineness.