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I went from full lurker to participant since I felt like I'm not completely drowned out by others. That made it more fun, since Lemmy all feed is pretty small relatively speaking and lurking gets boring if you're expecting an endless feed of random junk. Plus, since it's small, you can also feel like you're contributing to the Lemmy community, since without your comments and posts, it won't exist.
Although get to the bottom of the all feed and things get wild.
That and everyone on here are not total contrarians to everything you post or comment on
No, we ARE contrarians. Take that!
Ugh. The contrarian quippiness there is so FUCKING sophomoric. And everybody being the same authority on everything and all being passive aggressive as shit. It's like a land where nobody wants to build anything and everybody desperately needs validation.
Here, though, we just want validation via trauma bonding.....
.... Wait a minute .... Is Lemmy a ...survivor-platform?