Well my reason was, it's too close to botspam. And just re-posts (sometimes of re-posts). I rather have genuine conversation on an internet platform.
Most of it will be low engagement. I'll see a question, and take 10mins out of my day to anwer it, just to find out I wasted that time, because OP never had that question. And the real OP never sees my answer. Cm0002 improved, though. They cut down on forwarding questions, and they're transparent it's just forwarded content, these days. But ultimately, it's the same thing with other content. I'll see a post about RISC-V and interact. But it's just a waste, because it's fabricated and I'll never see any responses.
I think it's particularly bad in niche topics. The few people actually wanting to discuss RISC-V (just an example) are drowned in noise news-posts by someone who isn't even interested in discussing topic, they just push a political agenda there. So it kinda displaces the little genuine conversation we have.
And after wasting some time here and there by commenting into the void, I decided to suppress those posts and use my time to interact with actual people who have notifications turned on, read my stuff, teach me something or who have a genuine question in need of some advice.
I guess this is somehow related to the question whether we (just) want many posts here. Or have good conversation in the comments. To me it seems the former doesn't really lead to the latter. Some techniques are even detrimental to that cause. And I think this is one of those cases... At least it kills my engagement. I agree on the broad idea, though. I've long moved away from lemmy.ml communities. I just wish we had a bit more original content here, and not just 80% re-posts of what other people posted on Reddit, what they posted on lemmy.ml...
