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.

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[–] cilantrillo 87 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

[–] fleeing_snail 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] uhauljoe 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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