I just noticed that
- people don’t read my comments as much here as on Lemmy so I get way fewer replies
- someone replied to me and I didn’t see it in my notifications, even after tapping Notifications, so I had to go to the thread where he replied to me, check out all my 10+ comments, and see that one of them had a reply. I saw no other way to find this.
I noticed the same thing.
After turning notifications on, I didn’t get notifications for a comment I made before I turned them on, but I did get one for a comment I made after.
Maybe the notification settings only apply to new posts?