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Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven't even been on lemmy that long.

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[–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's honestly crazy to me. What's the appeal of lurking?

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not the person you asked but another lurker. Social interaction is hard, even posting this I'm having second thoughts about it, but I still like to feel like a member of the community.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Congratulations to you on interacting! I agree with everything you said.

    I'm certainly not one of the lemmy celebrities, but I've got nearly 900 comments on lemmy where I doubt I had 100 on Reddit. Not going back to check.

    Lemmy is a just nicer place to comment than Reddit: smaller audience, kinder communities, much less intimidating. I don't consider there to be any pressure to make posts or to comment, but if you do, I doubt you'll regret it.

    Either way, I personally am happy to have you here.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My published comments are probably about 20% of comments I start. I just give up most of the time because it wasn’t important or I can’t word something how I like in the moment

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    If I notice that I am spending too much time trying to cover all the bases so someone can't nitpick or acktually my reply I just give up and hit cancel. I appreciate an entertaining comment thread, what bug the shit out of me are people that reply to a comment with an obscure edge case or who are just pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.

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