My comments tend to get way more engagement here than on reddit. People are just friendlier. When I'm funny, they make me feel like the man. On reddit you had to piggy-back on top comments just to get any hits, and half of them were just confrontational for no good reason.

Can't speak for everyone but on my phone the a.lemmy.world website is unusable for replies. Half the reply box is covered by a control with a tempting x that closes the entire post and loses my reply. The submit button is hidden under the keyboard. When I finish typing I can hit the check mark above the keyboard which causes the website to zoom to 200% where upon I must find a neutral spot to double click somewhere and look for the post button, otherwise some nerd won't be able to invalidate my experience.

People keep saying “lemmy is dying Bluesky is dying” but maybe it’s the fact that the people who migrated to those sites were already burned on social media and know better than to start arguments on the internet.

The worst is that one of those comments is me, adding nothing to the conversation saying "same bro lmao"

Why do we need to comment on everything? Some things I just agree/like, no comment

You mean one thousand upvotes and a comment? Lol I think the most upvote I have ever seen on a post was like 12k.

Probably a "good post, nothing to add" case.

It's well-known that there are levels of engagement with content, with fewer people doing the more involved things. Most people just scroll past everything. Single digits percentage upvote posts. Fewer go into the comments, and again maybe 10% of those participate in comments. The ratio of every level is different on different platforms, but it's there.

For platforms with pretty quick flow like Reddit and Lemmy, the ratio naturally falls off hard. Something like Hacker News rewards slower and more thoughtful engagement with content and threads, so I'd guess they have a larger share of active commenters — although OTOH you don't quite want to show up with mindless predictable comments like prevalent here.

on reddit there was a lot of bot generated commentary. like yes, bots posting comments but also users who wouldn't have commented getting pulled into a "discussion" by a bot comment.

Less controversial comments that compel people to respond and argue with?

Larger portion of mature people on lemmy that can't be bothered with bait?

Vote button is easy.

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Commenting draws attention to yourself, which invites scrutiny and judgement. An upvote is (mostly) anonymous.

Also, upvotes take way less effort, always going to be more of those (unless a fight breaks out in the comments or something)

No need to add anything if it's already perfect.

Coz we a lazy bunch. Deal with it.

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