It doesn't really feel much different to me than reddit, aside from being less active and having fewer communities. I'm enjoying the smaller feel of the communities here though. It can feel pretty futile to go into a reddit thread with 3k+ comments and try to say anything because youre bound to be buried. It feels like talking into a void. Here on Lemmy, I feel more like it's worth my time to contribute to the discussion and the community. I mean, it's not like attention is my motivation for posting. It just feels empty and pointless to contribute to a social space and get no kind of interaction - or worse, a toxic and negative interaction.

We do what we must because we can o7