I'm more motivated to participate when there's fewer comments. On Reddit I often refrained from commenting when I noticed the other commenters already covered the point I wanted to make.
Yes those are the worst. Some people think that a normal conversation should be an exchange of contradictions, even when agreeing. I know exactly 1 person like that in real life who hasn't matured beyond that, but with the size of Reddit, there'd always be one.
I also got a funny reply one time from someone who claimed to have just thought something unique, after which he literally just rewrote my exact post. Basically doing "I made this" while trying to argue about it. After all I'm glad I managed to make him understand something, but he must be an insufferable genius to be around.
Eventually there will be crazy people here too, but so far it seems a lot less pretentious than the Reddit hivemind.
Don't forget karma whoring, where your comments will be invisible to the algorithm and you seem to talk to an empty wall, while one liners and easy jokes are at the top.
Same here. Even subs (instances? communities? still figuring out the lingo, sorry) are so quiet I'm even posting actual posts. Or on news posts, I have a question about the content where on reddit someone will have already asked and I can just see what responses or vitriol they got.
I commented on reddit a lot but I do feel the need to be more involved here because I want to help build up the community. That said, I do want to be more careful about how I use my account. Avoid getting into discourse when I can, try not to argue with people as much.
I feel like I can be healthier on Lemmy if I go into it with a different mindset, and without Reddit's dogshit algorithm, it might make it easier.
I made 2 posts on Reddit, one was a meme about my friend jumping over me to see my username, the other was some random text post. Thousands of comments though
It's just not in my nature... So much so that I'm trying to release a Lemmy app tonight, and I just remembered I haven't started on the ability to post...
Everything else came easy to me - you should be able to click on anything, everything should stay where you left it... But I have no idea how people want to post. I should probably just do it now before I overthink it
I think it's because we know we need to post, but also know we have nothing constructive to add to most things we're looking at. It's like people replying all to a birthday email at the office.
I mod an 11K member sub--and the equivalent community over here now has 11 subscribers (incl me). Exactly none of them have posted or commented on anything yet.
Was always just lurking on Reddit, maybe had one comment or so. For some reason, when moving over here, I've been enjoying this so much, I'm no longer just a lurker.
I think there's a greater chance of lemmy users interacting rather than just lurking because of the requirement of posting or commenting to be counted as active which should in turn help grow the community
a question remain - while I think the requirement to engage to be counted as active will certainly increase engagement generally - will it lead to "quality" content and comments? not that I currently know exactly how you quantify quality
I lurked on Reddit for many years. I’ve felt motivated enough to post comments here and hopefully find good content for the growing new communities here.
Why not ducks? Because I'm a duck and I find your post racist since it does not have mention of ducks, the excluded minority of society. OH, how we suffer so much! .... did I said we suffer a lot?
I think the best communities on the internet I've been a part of have a very low rate of lurkers and mostly all users are active. Although, those were usually smaller communities.