• SighBapanada@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I used to have a high barrier of thought prior to posting but now I just post whatever bullshit is on my mind at that moment just so I can keep threads active. Like I’m doing now

    • End0fLine@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      I had a mindset that I had nothing of value to contribute to the conversation. On here, I type out what I would have at Reddit, but I was just wrong. I get plenty of people who engage with me.

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        1 year ago

        On reddit I always had the feeling that someone else had already made my point for me. Here I find myself submitting all those comments and posts that I just deleted halfway through before.

        • Lemmylefty@vlemmy.net
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          1 year ago

          Ditto that.

          And the frustration that comes of that isn’t so much “I didn’t get to make a point, for which I lost the opportunity to receive credit” but more “I didn’t get to engage with the discussion in realtime without having a sense for how others would react, appreciate, or challenge my views”. Reading things afterward has that line of discussion set in stone in a way that’s unlike being a participant.

    • Becoming@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly why I’ve always been a mere lurker. Maybe I should change that!