It feels like lemmy users are too shy because of reddit popularity.

I see you’ve never heard of the 90%/9%/1% of social media users.

90% are lurkers. 9% are intermittent posters. 1% are heavy use posters.

It’s not that people are shy, it’s that literally with a fraction of the userbase Reddit has, that 10% that actually makes posts is just a smaller number of people.