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.
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.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Uhhhh, sorry!
Or someone with the same opinion as yours will start argue with you because you said it in a different way that they don’t agree with.
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.
Came here to say this.
In Reddit there usually already a comment saying what I think so I would rather just updot, hence I lurk less and comment more here.
I feel more comfortable commenting here
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A lot of lurkers from Reddit, myself included, actually don’t lurk on Lemmy.
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Lemmy will only improve if the lurkers stopped lurking.
The lurking will continue until content improves
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Lol what?
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
Is there a reason why I should care if my account is active or not? Genuine question I just made my account two days ago
That’s a great point. Happy to help!!
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
That’s a good question, and probably not. I figure growth won’t increase the proportion of quality comments, but it will undoubtedly increase the frequency. Hopefully the voting system will cause low quality comments to drift away from what we tend to see.
Something I take away from forums is that user volume is incredibly impactful, even if most is low quality. As long as there is something to scrape off the top, I think I’ll be satisfied. Obviously this misses some nuance but I think it works as a rule of thumb, especially to grow incredibly small niche communities that otherwise won’t exist.
I was above average active on reddit. I hope I can be the same here
