[asdff]

It is striking how just about any subreddit is several orders of magnitude larger than their average engagement. It's seemingly no matter the size and affects huge and tiny subeditors. I guess there really are that many bot accounts on reddit.

[bradlys]

Many people (including myself) will just not post. If you want to see what’s going on with a subreddit in your feed, you have to subscribe/join it. You can manually visit all your favorite subreddits but that can be very tedious and doesn’t fit the “news feed” type of behavior that people want to use.

[eindiran]

See: the 1% rule and participation inequality. It seems to be a constant of human engagement on internet platforms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_inequality

[stjohnswarts]

About 95% of reddit users are lurkers and not commentators. Just there for the lolz and linked articles/pictures/memes