@metaltoilet I disliked this as well, at first. But on the other hand, discussions can tend to be very vitriolic and wherever there are lots of comments, you can be sure there is some polarization in the comments, sometimes turning ugly. This can be seen both on Reddit and on the main Lemmy instance. It almost never happened here from my experience.

Now, everything is up to you. You can choose more silence or more noise, at the expense of some sanity if you encounter people who think that trolling and enragement makes for constructive discussions.

I also know how hard can it be to be yourself a conversation starter. You only think about

• Oh, but what should I say?
• Is it okay if I say what I say? Will I offend someone if I say this?
• How will they react to whatever I say?
• etc.

At least that was my experience when first arriving on the Fediverse proper. If it weren’t for Musk to take over Twitter and start this whole exodus, I would have hardly accessed this network once a week.

As others said, try be more engaging yourself around this place. If you shout in the wild you might get an echo back 😉

Edit: Also, as have others noticed, there aren’t enough people to have a conversation around. In contrast with Twitter, Reddit feels more engaging and more interested into dialogue, instead of just shouting their thoughts in the abis and expecting everyone to agree with them. Mastodon is the same to some extent and Lemmy is the same. We just need more users in this dialogue, give it some time. I am really curious what will happen when the API changes of Reddit will come to effect. Will people suddenly wake up no longer being able to access Reddit on their 3rd party client of choice? Will they resort to changing it to the default one? Will they choose an alternative platform? Will they quit it altogether? Time will tell 😁