this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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Maybe because we all want this to work out and be a thing.

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[–] ColoradoBump 66 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yes, I never felt like commenting when there were hundreds of previous comments. Here, with just a few comments, it feel like it an actual contribution, not a drop in the ocean. I also spend more time reading each comment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

And even if a post has many comments on here you still get interaction because they sort by "Hot" by default (at least on kbin)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I think this is a big part of it. On the other site you’d really have to be early on a popular post, otherwise there’d already be thousands of comments and it didn’t feel worth the effort.

[–] Gazumbo 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yep same here. I'd usually browse 'all' on reddit and everything that could be said had already been said in the comments. So it kind of felt what's the point.

It's made me realise that I don't want Lemmy to become a reddit clone for this reason. If it gets too big it'll be the same issue.