I am once again asking...

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.

Same, but I cannot even get to the reply phase. Also I am bad at commenting/posting anything good.

I figure that there are plenty of other people that can tell me what's wrong with my comment, so just post it and let others work for you for free.

The thing is, I feel like many people just add whatever they think and want to say to a conversation no matter how relevant or irrelevant it is to the current situation. In the end, I feel like most people on here are civil enough to not be mean-spirited towards one another unless they're talking to bigots and stuff.

I struggle with this quite often too - especially when it comes to topics that can be quite divide and polarising - but I always feel good once I do step out of my comfort zone and post away. There's usually bound to be at least a couple people with whom your comment resonates with. Give it a try maybe - you'd be surprised how well it can go :)

I feel you. I delete like half the comments I post and want to delete another half of what's left before I do, for the same sounding reasons.

I don't think people will be a dick to you on here, and if they are it won't be well received by anyone else.

If it helps, people seem to be a lot more open to questions and discussion here than on sites like reddit. Its pretty refreshing.

lurking intensifies

Walking lurkishly down the stairs

How decedent

HI INFORMATIVE AND INSIGHTFUL RESPONSE

..... Nice.

Countries with the first-past-the-post electoral system perform similarly to autocracies when it comes to healthcare performance.

Gotcha

Now this, I like

Honestly same, even this replay I hesitated before sending.

Diagnosis: cat

Confidence: 80%

Too late...

Ladies and gentlemen... we got em.

It's okay, you do already much more than most of us working on Photon

I absolutely understand that regarding political/news communities, I bet your experience is very different in entertainment/hobbies communities

I just wanted to let you know there is an option in your settings so you don't see upvotes or downvotes.

Lemmy (AFAIK) doesn't even show you your total upvotes (karma... whatever it's called) by default either. None of these imaginary points fucking matter.

So why don't you do yourself a favor and uncheck these boxes and not give a fuck what others think about your comment.

I know I have.

(Lemmy is rad as fuck)

Beehaw.org has disabled the down vote button/doesn't federate down votes. So you could try posting over there, it's pretty great

profile karma doesnt matter here unless you use mbin or piefed, I think even then its only if you have an account there? (not sure about that one) Its not like reddit where more karma boosts posts/comments

Yea that's definitely me

Rebel rebel rebel!

I'm glad someone else thinks of the zerg when lurkers are discussed.

Fine.

Some of us comment and some of us post. You're a poster.

Don't feel bad, anyone who has more than a couple thousand comments on this platform is just a loser with no life

if everyone was as kind as that man, I think there would almost be no suffering in the world

An excuse to post a link to this article

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UwU

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Yeah, I wish there was a more concerted effort to move more communities.

Build it and they will come

Are you interested in finding more communities to subscribe to?

!communitypromo@lemmy.ca or !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl and similar resources help me personally to find ones I never knew about

Making assumptions there, bud.

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You do a ritual to appease the Blood Gods, and beg to gain a fraction of their creativity for a moment in time.

Or you post about beans and potash.