It's so weird how Lemmy feels like old reddit and that was when I was more active but as reddit grew I began to lurk more except in four different communities. It's still hard to not lurk here. I frequently will type a comment or make a post and delete it, haha. Anybody else experiencing this?

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[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My lurking comes from mostly not being able to articulate exactly what I want to say sometimes. Like yeah, I know how this random thread makes me feel and I have an idea of what I want to say, but when I try to put it into actual, tangible words that make sense, I just end up sitting there for ten or fifteen minutes trying to word it out before I give up and move on lol. I'm trying to be better at it though, like force myself to post or comment something sometimes. Surely the more times I do, the better I'll be at it right?? ¯\(ツ)/¯

[–] youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here. Sometimes I want to be concise and end up with a whole paragraph trying to convey something.

[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, I tend to find myself rambling when I don't want to.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do the exact same thing, but it typically doesn't stop me. Just makes me take half an hour and multiple edits on everything I've ever said. I'm well aware that I ramble. As long as paragraphs are separated, that's what y'all are gonna get, voluntarily hanging out on a text-based forum. Very few people have whined, and if they want twitter-length messages, there are now several twitter-likes for them to join.

The real worst part is typing up a message to contradict or ask for clarification on something I don't understand, and then in carefully typing it, I end up explaining it to myself and I no longer need to ask. Never mind, then.

[–] Alkider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago