On Reddit I generally didn’t read attached articles. I’d developed a pretty good intuition where the article title, website and top comments could tell me all I needed to know (And reading the source normally confirmed this)
On Lemmy the smaller numbers of comments mean we need to engage with the content being discussed more directly, which is quite a nice change of pace for us Reddit converts.
And I think people here post for sharing purpose. There is no karma whoring, no motivation for it!
At the begining I was missing the 10k coments on top posts, but now it feels cosy and familiar to have few coments, it gives you the oportunity to also share your opinions