Borrowed from lemmy.zip
okayyyyyy...........
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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If you upvote and downvote in a genuine way, you’re improving the lemmy experience imo by lurking.
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I'm doing my part!
the hell am i supposed to do here, there's like- barely any posts in my subscribed tab, and the things i do reply on don't get interactions at all LMAO
might as well keep lurking if it's gonna be like that
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I'm doing my part!
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Lemmy is so much better for actual commenting and discussion. It’s like our threads range from a small room full of people to an auditorium full, while that other place most of us left was like a professional sports stadium full of people who all have a bullhorn and one rich weasel with camera who gets to decide who is on the Jumbotron.
I comment! Sometimes!
And then there was last night where someone called me "brain fucked" for (allegedly) not understanding what conservatism is. Ah, internet discourse.
Are you brain fucked tho
I mean. Maybe?
I've been wrong about stuff before. I'm sure I'm wrong about some stuff now.
Frequent lurker here, I just have such a hard time getting my thoughts out into words that’s relevant to a conversation. Add in an irrational amount of aversion to negative feedback (real or perceived) and it just feels better to just keep scrolling.
One day I’ll get better at this, it’s not easy when my socializing experience has been dominated with negativity both online and offline.
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What could have been
No
>2 year old account
>2 posts, 4 comments
One quarter of this user's comment history is them explicitly declining to stop lurking lmao
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Gotcha
Goddamit squirrel I'm trying, ive got years of lurker conditioning to break.
Fine you win this round
This is the way
Hey Bernie 👋🏽
But .. but what if someone downvotes me?
Nothing makes me feel more powerful than getting downvoted and not caring while having a bunch of people who clearly care a lot about votes tell me I should care about downvotes.
Go ahead and downvote me, it literally doesn’t matter.
You said that so I'd upvote you, you jerk!
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its hard when i get most of my content here.
- Presses reply
- Types an insightful comment
- Looks at it. There’s something wrong with it. He just doesn’t know what.
- Erases it. Starts over.
- *Still doesn’t feel right *
- Hits cancel, discards the comment, and goes back to doom scrolling.
I worry the same way, but mostly just when I'm commenting on something hurtful. Like if a commenter is being agonizingly wrong about something really important, spreading lies, you know the kind. I'll get worked up and start writing a comment, but realize that any point I make can be nitpicked and invalidated even if it's broadly correct. So I don't post those comments.
But when it's not in response to someone being inflammatory, I feel better about just doing my best with what I write. If someone has a correction, well that's a good thing! I'll acknowledge it and edit my comment to include the better info I'm given. I can hope that the people reading it don't see that I was wrong on one point and decide I'm completely wrong because I try to interact respectfully.
I felt this in my bones.
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I'll do better!
I'm doing my part!
Countries with the first-past-the-post electoral system perform similarly to autocracies when it comes to healthcare performance.
..... Nice.
I've been busy!
Does actively commenting but never posting count as lurking?
No
I also want this answer. I’m trying to find things to post but commenting comes more naturally!
I’m doing my part by flooding Lemmy with opossum and bat pics. Maybe an occasional raccoon if the mood is right.
I'm an introvert, leave me alone.
But why?