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I read comment sections to the end on lemmy, which I haven't done on reddit in probably a decade
Because there are fewer comments? Or because they're more worthwhile?
For me it's because I'm not reading the same top comment on virtually every post. I used to always skip top comment because it was just a copied comment to a repost, but eventually it got so silly I had to read halfway down to get any original thoughts. Now that we're in a world where there's so much bot generated content and it isn't affecting lemmy in largely the same way as the other social media platforms, it's even more apparent.
To the other repliers point, contrarian commentary isn't censored as heavily and power tripping mods to get named and shamed from what I've seen from my perspective - that said I am a heavy reader instead of commentator so I have my own set of biases.
yes
lemmy def lacks mutli paragraph comments threads. more than two sentences here is a long comment.
i liked reading thought out ideas and opinions. very few threads i've seen here have those. and often they are downvoted because they are not supporting the lemmy default viewpoints... which are mostly of the soundbite length.
that said, people aren't getting banned for those comments like they would on reddit. and i'm not getting banned for replying to them.