Is anybody else more active here then they were on Reddit?

When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.

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Reddit comments just get washed away by millions of other users. Where as in this place it's not as competitive so yea I understand what you mean.
- Yeah, I think this is a big part of it. There's no point posting something in the big Reddit subs most of the time because someone else will have already posted the same thing.
  To get noticed you have to be early and/or say something witty or superficially inciteful. There's no room for nuance.
  It just becomes a competition for karma, and if you don't play you're screaming into the void.
  
  I feel the lack of (public?) karma will at least help with the repost bots here. That is, if you buy the "bots needing karma to look legit" or the "needs to gather karma to post in some subs" arguments. I've always found those to be very weird as no sub I've seen needs several thousand karma to post and most bots still look like bots.
  Competition for karma sounds like more of the same problem with bots: lots of low effort posts to rise those numbers
  
  Yeah, that will probably help. But I also feel like it just trying to get upvotes makes people compete to post popular but not necessarily good quality stuff. Getting a highly upvoted post is a big dopamine hit in itself.
  Upvotes are not so important here, part due to no karma, but partly just because it's quieter. Hopefully, if activity does pick up, the federated nature of Lemmy means some of that can be avoided. If you're interested in a topic, you can choose between a very popular community on one instance, or a quieter but more thoughtful community on another instance.
- I posted a showerthought mostly to try how posting works. It seemed to be at the top of... is there a /r/all equivalent here?
  Anyway, it was visible enough my sister found my account. It kinda feels like moving from a giant metropolis to a village.

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