Too late, lurkers don't comment!

I still remember this epic comment from @cm0002@lemmy.world. It's funny because cm0002 is like one of the most active posters I see around.

And we're here for you.

How often did you contemplate posting this comment?

I worry the same way, but mostly just when I'm commenting on something hurtful. Like if a commenter is being agonizingly wrong about something really important, spreading lies, you know the kind. I'll get worked up and start writing a comment, but realize that any point I make can be nitpicked and invalidated even if it's broadly correct. So I don't post those comments.

But when it's not in response to someone being inflammatory, I feel better about just doing my best with what I write. If someone has a correction, well that's a good thing! I'll acknowledge it and edit my comment to include the better info I'm given. I can hope that the people reading it don't see that I was wrong on one point and decide I'm completely wrong because I try to interact respectfully.

>writes three paragraph comment

>edits comment for 10 minutes to make it as succinct as possible

>realizes it has nothing to do with parent comment

>deletes comment

Back on reddit, a good half of the comments I would have left got deleted as soon as I posted them. Lemmy has forced me to make sure I've said something relevant, because if I leave a comment and then delete it, everyone gets to know that I did that, and that makes me feel even worse than saying something slightly off topic

I felt this in my bones.

Same, but I cannot even get to the reply phase. Also I am bad at commenting/posting anything good.

I figure that there are plenty of other people that can tell me what's wrong with my comment, so just post it and let others work for you for free.

The thing is, I feel like many people just add whatever they think and want to say to a conversation no matter how relevant or irrelevant it is to the current situation. In the end, I feel like most people on here are civil enough to not be mean-spirited towards one another unless they're talking to bigots and stuff.

I struggle with this quite often too - especially when it comes to topics that can be quite divide and polarising - but I always feel good once I do step out of my comfort zone and post away. There's usually bound to be at least a couple people with whom your comment resonates with. Give it a try maybe - you'd be surprised how well it can go :)

I feel you. I delete like half the comments I post and want to delete another half of what's left before I do, for the same sounding reasons.

I don't think people will be a dick to you on here, and if they are it won't be well received by anyone else.

If it helps, people seem to be a lot more open to questions and discussion here than on sites like reddit. Its pretty refreshing.

lurking intensifies

How decedent

I DON'T LIKE POSTING MUCH BECAUSE I AM TRASH

HI INFORMATIVE AND INSIGHTFUL RESPONSE

..... Nice.

Countries with the first-past-the-post electoral system perform similarly to autocracies when it comes to healthcare performance.

>2 year old account

>2 posts, 4 comments

One quarter of this user's comment history is them explicitly declining to stop lurking lmao

Gotcha

cute, gecko? lizard? what species?

Now this, I like

Honestly same, even this replay I hesitated before sending.

You should upload more of your photography stuff!

Look at this useless comment here smh

/s ;-)

even just voting helps.

Too late...

Ladies and gentlemen... we got em.

Diagnosis: cat

Confidence: 80%

Counterpoint: By posting things that get downvoted, you still contributed and added to the discussion by exposing people to a viewpoint divergent from the ones they perceive normaly.

Or your contributions are just shit takes. That could be the case too. /s

It's okay, you do already much more than most of us working on Photon

I absolutely understand that regarding political/news communities, I bet your experience is very different in entertainment/hobbies communities

I just wanted to let you know there is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

Lemmy (AFAIK) doesn't even show you your total upvotes (karma... whatever it's called) by default either. None of these imaginary points fucking matter.

So why don't you do yourself a favor and uncheck these boxes and not give a fuck what others think about your comment.

I know I have.

(Lemmy is rad as fuck)

profile karma doesnt matter here unless you use mbin or piefed, I think even then its only if you have an account there? (not sure about that one) Its not like reddit where more karma boosts posts/comments

Much better than screaming into the void of the same stupid jokes and bots on reddit though right?

I actually don't feel that way even on older posts that have already taken off. That's really nice about lemmy.

Yea that's definitely me

Rebel rebel rebel!

🔫 Give me another one right now

Can't you talk while pooing?

Some of us comment and some of us post. You're a poster.

Don't feel bad, anyone who has more than a couple thousand comments on this platform is just a loser with no life

if everyone was as kind as that man, I think there would almost be no suffering in the world

An excuse to post a link to this article

Remember upvotes are for comments that foster discussion (you can upvote even if you don't agree with them). Downvotes are for comments that don't foster discussion, such as bad actors and distasteful garbage spouting shitposts. You can also block users if you recognize they don't add value to your Lemmy experience

Fine.

it was like a watershed moment when i realized opossums are just dumb and adorable and not scary at all but i never met an evil one

Subscribe

notices your jug of oil

UwU

Are you brain fucked tho

Yeah, I wish there was a more concerted effort to move more communities.

Making assumptions there, bud.

Locks eyes irritability

Build it and they will come

Are you interested in finding more communities to subscribe to?

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca or !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl and similar resources help me personally to find ones I never knew about

I subscribe to nothing and just view All instead. If that doesn't work for you then maybe your instance defederated with a bunch of instances or something.

Bla bla Arch bla the way, bla bla bla... Bla bla bla bla!

You do a ritual to appease the Blood Gods, and beg to gain a fraction of their creativity for a moment in time.

Or you post about beans and potash.

Yeah many communities I’m interested in have so little users and even less people who post/comment. Some are inactive for days

What's the line being worshipped in the octagon?

Same, but commenting is also a good way to contribute. Oh, uh, hi! o/ /lurks

Nothing makes me feel more powerful than getting downvoted and not caring while having a bunch of people who clearly care a lot about votes tell me I should care about downvotes.

Go ahead and downvote me, it literally doesn’t matter.

It's really hard for me to not downvote this.

I downvoted you to be funny sorry

No

I also want this answer. I’m trying to find things to post but commenting comes more naturally!

Same. I came to Lemmy because Reddit sucks, I'm looking for memes, cat videos, humorous and/or thought provoking content.

Instead my all feed is filled with an echo chamber of political content. Not gonna lie, Lemmy is forum that takes itself away too seriously, I don't interact because I don't want to argue politics with strangers online, and I know any differing options get down voted to hell.

I really wish Lemmy had a little more fun engaging, apolitical content. If it did, I'd be all over it.

Feel free to document those on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Same here, except from Anxiety. Maybe this is just being human?

Thanks! 🙏 How is your weekend?

Same, whoops lol

You get more engagement on Lemmy than on Reddit, even if you don't comment in the first 3h. Probably due to sorting, probably due to lower numbers, but even the silliest comment will get at least a few reactions.

You can really tell it's made by socialists who hate accumulation and want to give everyone a chance.

Lemmy on its web interface has a sorting option called scaled sorting. Which allows to bring up rising threads that are a few hours old.

Note: not all mobile apps have integrated scaled sorting. So you need to do some investigation.

…and reading further in the comments says sort by new, but I’m already doing that lol

It’s one perk.

Someone who reads, but does not post or comment. Someone who's here, but doesn't really participate.

https://liquipedia.net/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker

SON/DAUGHTER!?

Are you lurking, son?

It doesn't really generate activity. Basically any platform would prefer to have more comments to generate activity, which in some cases moves content across various algorithms, but also makes the platform look well active and involved. Having an active looking platform can make others want to sign up and join. I'm sure there's potentially other reasons.

That said, I think it's fine to lurk and should be promoted more. Sometimes it's better to spend time focusing on articulating your thoughts and writing your posts than it is just writing more posts overall, and sometimes there isn't much to add to a topic.

Posts or comments or both?

What app/client are you using?

All I did was not open this for a few days and now this?

0.0 What are you talking about? I don't see that, and I consider myself pretty active...

Propaganda?

I've not seen anything like that since I've been here. What do they push?

This is why blocking instances and defederation

I'm sure I won't find anything out of place in the modlog then?

It really depends on the instance. For example, I am to the point of blocking politics on .world because they take a "both sides are the same" approach to moderation.

Most of my deleted comments and bans come from there.

Call them out on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Modlogs are public for a reason

Edit: also, your own moderation history isn't the best looking: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=3895205

This is the post that got me banned from ten forward. A year earlier I warned another person to not argue with the mod because they will ban you. I made the mistake of not looking at the username before replying.

Lemmy is actually worse than Reddit.