Most popular english communities are already too big though. They're always flooded with comments, and sometimes everyone says exactly the same, such as if they didn't read through the comments before commenting themselves. Discussions on, e.g., c/ich_iel@feddit.org are much more fun.

Hipster dive bars have always been cooler than the "hip spots" anyway.

Also, on Reddit I felt dread seeing that there was something in my inbox. On Lemmy, I'm excited to see what someone wrote. Just a very different experience overall.

Agreed, and it's kinda neat to start recognizing people's names across different communities. Really feels like old-school internet forums in that way.

Agreed. On Reddit, if you weren’t there in the first hour of a rising post, your comment won’t be seen by many.

I love that Lemmy posts have a longer “shelf life,” so to speak. I can see something posted days ago and still find fresh comments, which in turn encourages me to add something if it feels relevant. If I had scrolled a two day old post on Reddit, any comment I add would be rarely seen, or at most responded to with “Why are you commenting on a dead post?”

It's small enough to recognize names. Big enough where running into a furry with an unreasonably flashy emojis in their name, or someone from some place you never ~~herd~~ had the knowledge of its presence forcefully injected into your brain through an unspecified method of perception is common place.

Edit: Typo.

You can always be heard on Reddit. Reply to the top level comment with a sex related joke or the popular meme trend and upvotes will roll I'm fast. You could also make a post that allows others to be judgemental, like relationship advice or am I the asshole; and again you'll get lots of attention. Or pretend to be a girl and comment of weed and sexuality. There are lots of ways to get attention.