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Yeah it felt a little empty here at first, but then I realized I get way more replies on most of my comments here than I did on reddit where most people just scrolled right past it.
You make a great point.
I fire off comments without thinking much at about the same rate as I did on the other website but get replies on about ~50-60% here vs. ~20% on centralized media.
Itβs really nice honestly. /gen
(And people are much nicer about tone tags here!)
Indeed, I quite like it, cause I'm here for discussion not just shouting into the void.
Right? I think Lemmy is way more conducive to conversations than Reddit.
I find myself commenting far more often than I did on Reddit. I remember once that I lamented that Lemmy doesn't have a "super upvote" in the way that Reddit gold used to be (which is a silly thought, given that I have never, and would never pay money to gild a comment). However, I realised that on this more discussion based platform, a short but meaningful comment can readily function as a super upvote. I think the lack of karma accrual for comments/posts also promotes this.