Why do you lurk?
I used to be a lurker when on Reddit. I’d post here and there but mostly just kept to myself. It was because something as large as Reddit felt like shouting into the void.
On Lemmy, the communities are small, and so are the instances. Is it lack of something to say, anxiety, or you’re a bot? What’s up!
I find myself being way more active on Lemmy & Mastodon than on Reddit & Twitter.
Not a lurker on Lemmy, surprisingly. I did, however, almost always lurk on Reddit. If I ever needed to ask something, I’d make a throwaway.
Reason for this was anxiety. People downvoting innocent posts for reasons like “oh they want a queer character in a book? fuck em” or “they phrased something badly and I don’t want to correct them” didn’t encourage discussion to me, it made me feel like I did something wrong everytime I posted. So I stopped posting.
I didn’t feel like I could be myself on that site, either. There was a community for ADHD folk, sure, but it was split into two major subreddits, and the more popular one was a negative minefield of self-hate and gatekeeping. As for the queer community, any time a trans person is mentioned on /r/all, the drama is immense.
What was the point of posting on that site? I started using it just for tech support, eventually.