I lurked for months because of lemmy.world’s policy of only allowing real email accounts for registration. Reddit allowed anonymous accounts for years which encouraged easy participation at the cost of bots.
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rolaulten@startrek.website 6 months agoThe people who are here are more willing to post. So less of us overall but also less lurkers.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
melooone@feddit.de 6 months ago
This definitely applies to me. I had a Reddit account for 5-6 years, but never made a single post and only wrote a handful of comments. I just feel more comfortable interacting here.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah, it seems like the most logical assumption, anyway I’m happy here, hopefully it would not take too long for more niche stuff to kick in!
rolaulten@startrek.website 6 months ago
Depends on how niche. Some stuff unfortunately only comes from truly large user bases. At a guess, the further you go from a tech/liberal core and overlapping hobbies, the longer it will take for the content to emarge.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 months ago
But at least the tech community is rather calm. I can have a different point of view with them and have a calm discussion with them.
Other groups aren’t like that.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Well, for me it would be sufficient for some communities about specific videogames or tv shows/anime :)