Just the engagement in general. On reddit, if you try to join a discussion after a post is more than an hour old, you might as well not comment at all because no one will see it anyway. On lemmy, you can have a great exchange and more meaningful discussion even if a post is more than a day old.
You wrote this 13 hours ago, and I’m just seeing it now and commenting here to agree with you. I love lemmy.
Yes! I hated that on reddit. I would sometimes have a cool thing to add, but because the thread was 8 hours old and had a thousand comments already, virtually no one would see it. There were some exceptions: on TV episode discussions sometimes they’d use new/contest mode default sorting for the thread and you didn’t feel like you were shouting into a void.
The hack on reddit used to be to hijack a top comment. Post something vaguely related to that comment, then add whatever you wanna add. It’s silly that this was required at all.