When a post is in text it’s already in or close to the form of a discussion, and the post gives language and many specific places to reference to continue the discussion.
For this post, engaging with each image means moving out of a verbal space and if you want to type comments you need to come up with your own schema for determining what part you’re responding to and how to discuss it in words. That’s a lot more effort, resulting in fewer comments.
I think it’s also very important to distinguish “makes sense” or “is preferred” from “provokes comments” here—the post has about the same level of upvotes as your usual posts, just fewer comments. That means people are probably reading and appreciating the post at similar rates, just not commenting because it’s more difficult without being obviously more rewarding.
When a post is in text it’s already in or close to the form of a discussion, and the post gives language and many specific places to reference to continue the discussion.
For this post, engaging with each image means moving out of a verbal space and if you want to type comments you need to come up with your own schema for determining what part you’re responding to and how to discuss it in words. That’s a lot more effort, resulting in fewer comments.
I think it’s also very important to distinguish “makes sense” or “is preferred” from “provokes comments” here—the post has about the same level of upvotes as your usual posts, just fewer comments. That means people are probably reading and appreciating the post at similar rates, just not commenting because it’s more difficult without being obviously more rewarding.