On Reddit I generally didn’t read attached articles. I’d developed a pretty good intuition where the article title, website and top comments could tell me all I needed to know (And reading the source normally confirmed this)
On Lemmy the smaller numbers of comments mean we need to engage with the content being discussed more directly, which is quite a nice change of pace for us Reddit converts.
This is what it was like on Reddit, when it began. It’s also missing bot comments, so it feels more personal.
Another nice thing I noticed is that the lower influx of post allows more engagement because you don’t “arrive late” to comment on a post. Back there if you responded to a post that was 4+ hours ago nobody would respond and the post was already dead.
For sure. I was largely a lurker on Reddit not because I didn’t like engaging with the content and community, but because it was practically impossible for me to engage in anything. Either the post I commented on didn’t get popular enough to last long enough for engagement, of by the time I saw something that was popular enough, everyone had already moved on hours ago. It feels much different here where there’s fewer posts, and that means that people will spend longer on each post and speak their own mind as well, rather than looking at the top three comments, and moving into the next post.
The trick for older, active posts is to start commenting under the top comments instead of making a top level comment yourself. That way, you’re seen by most people who don’t sort comments by new.
That’s true. I’ve got a feeling that the rhythm has changed. I’m not sure if it’s because there aren’t as many posts per minute or because by the time I read I post it doesn’t already have like 10000 comments. Suddenly I dare to engage in the conversation because people are still taking part on it, my comment is not going to get lost. I like this a lot.
Same, I never felt like participating on reddit because a lot of the content i saw was already past its moment, it seems silly to comment when no one has engaged in hours, let alone a post a week old or something.
There’s a lot more engagement to be had here.
Another thing about the lower population is that you don’t have people trying to needlessly karma farm. All those addicts couldn’t leave behind their treasures trove of 1 million updoots, so they stayed on reddit.
Because of that, you have many more people here posting about stuff they’re passionate about. No rage-bait articles or massive amounts of doomerism posts. It’s refreshing to have more organic content being shared.
I guess that the other thing that helps is that we don’t have Karma over here, so there’s nothing of value to gain.
