Yes, I never felt like commenting when there were hundreds of previous comments. Here, with just a few comments, it feel like it an actual contribution, not a drop in the ocean. I also spend more time reading each comment.
I think this is a big part of it. On the other site you’d really have to be early on a popular post, otherwise there’d already be thousands of comments and it didn’t feel worth the effort.
Yep same here. I'd usually browse 'all' on reddit and everything that could be said had already been said in the comments. So it kind of felt what's the point.
It's made me realise that I don't want Lemmy to become a reddit clone for this reason. If it gets too big it'll be the same issue.
Lemmy is growing very, very quickly but I still feel like there’s more interaction between actual humans here and not some stupid karma farming bots. I came over here before the Reddit civil war started and there’s been more and more content every day without it feeling contrived. I’m quite fond of Lemmy at this point.
Content felt like it exploded just over the past couple of days. The coverage of world news events has been excellent. Memes have homes. It has been nice.
The breath of fresh air has generally been maturity in a lot of posts. Reddit felt like junior high deduction skills most of the time. I don't expect it to last, but it makes me engage more.
It really has. The first week or so was a bit discouraging but Lemmy has exploded recently. I’m extremely pleased that I can get my world news and my poop jokes in one place again. I scrubbed my Reddit comments and deleted my account much like Cortés burned his ships.
The top 3 most upvoted comments aren't unfunny puns.
This feels mor elike a 'community' because there's fewer people. I don't feel like I'm screaming at a tornado.
More niche content. It's more fractured and I liked that about the early internet and early-reddit.
My Reddit account got banned for a fucking ridiculous reason and every new account I make they re-ban. Fuck Reddit and it's over-sanitised, Disney-bullshit.
I can speak British English without my comment getting deleted. E.g. "Can I bum a fag mate"?
Regarding 2, it is sort of ridiculous how many comments some posts get on reddit. And you're really unlikely to get any interaction leaving a comment on a post that already has say, 12,000 comments, while meanwhile due to the way the site works, more and more people see the posts that are already at the top.
You underestimate the power of defaults. I can guarantee you a large percentage of people might even know it’s possible but don’t want to bother tinkering with settings or just forget about that on the few minutes they just scroll and read/comment.
I definitely feel more inclined to comment. Especially since so many posts have so little comments. It feels like my comments are more worthwhile to write to add to the discussion.
It is a hard habit to break. I mostly lurked on reddit, a few comments here and there. Trying to engage and post a bit more than I would have previously.
Very much yes. Now I can make relevant and helpful comments without 50 other people saying the same thing before I even saw the post. I feel like my contribution here matters.
Yeah, I often would type something, realize there was no point because it had been said already, and then delete it. Here I will actually post a link without it having been shared hours before! It's neat.
I had a Reddit account for 10 years and never made a single post, but I actually made a post here so I'm definitely more active here. It'll probably end up being my only post as more users join Lemmy but I made the post primarily because I wanted more posts to hopefully encourage Lemmy growth.
Lemmy has made me realize that choosing communities (similar to subreddits) is important to me. I try not to search by /all and find information I am interested in. Having to join new communities again is not exactly a problem.
Yeah, I do kinda feel like I'm commenting more on posts that I wouldn't have commented on over at reddit. Not sure why, probably has at least something to do with tje fact that I want to contribute to this place. I think it's also that people on here do seem to be more laid back and less confrontational over things that don't call for a confrontation. I like it here.
I do post comments here more than reddit. Partly to help keep engagement up, but also because I haven't seen many shitheads trying to make me feel bad.
You can still have meaningful contributions right now, and we can't afford to lurk as much. We
We need to help out with content, the content we want to see.
Ditto. I still do read Reddit because there are some subs there which had not significantly moved over (yet, hopefully), but I post and interact more on here.
Actually, I'm probably writing about the same number of replies. It's just that here I'm much more likely to actually post them.
On Reddit, I tended to write out replies, then visualize what was going to happen if I posted it - if I got any response at all, it was likely to just be a troll or a shill or a bot regurgitating some bit of emotive rhetoric or a tired meme. Then I'd just delete it instead of posting it.
Here, the only likely negative outcome is nothing at all. If somebody does respond, it's actually likely that it'll not only be a real person, but that they'll actually post real thoughts rather than just rhetoric and memes.
I heard a quote once that said "The cost of living in a good community is community service." I've been using that as my drive to interact with posts more here.
I'm trying to be more active here largely because more people want want to join a site that seems like it's mostly dead with only a handful of posting/commenting.
I'm not really much of a content creator, and I'm hoping we quickly get enough active users that I can fall back to mostly lurking and chiming in when I have something to add.
Mostly this. I definitely check it less than I did reddit, but when I do I try to engage more. That's probably partly because there's less comments. On reddit I read a lot of aith and bestofredditorupdates and relationship_advice. So there were lots of comments to read by the time I got there. This is more like reading r/new and having to create engagement rather than responding to one of the thousands of comments
It's a lot easier to find conversations here. Vibes like reddit of 5-10 years ago. When communities get too big, the most popular gets pretty boring for people with niche tastes.
Yeah. Popular reddit posts from 4h or older...you're just shouting into the wind.
You still would get good conversations on smaller communities, but the popular subs it was mostly reading other people's witticisms that people would put on the post while it was in "new". Mostly those seemed to be karma whoring people who would try to get comment karma from saying something edgy or funny at the beginning of a post and then "benefit" when the post gets to r/all.
All communities get this way when they grow enough in size. There are only so many unique opinions to express on a subject, and a finite amount of interest someone will have to keep reading a thread. It essentially becomes a race to see who can express the idea first, and we have an easier time winning a race with fewer competitors.
I plan on being more active on Lemmy - Reddit was mostly read-only for me for years, but the smaller community here feels like engaging wouldn't just be screaming into the void.
I find I'm having the opposite problem with social anxiety. I feel like I'll be seen here and it's making it difficult to comment. Though since I just made my account last night and this is my first comment, I guess I'm being active much sooner. I didn't leave a comment on reddit for months after making an account...
I think you will find that people here, at least with the current population, are pretty understanding, and I, for one, would love to hear your thoughts.
I finally made my way back into the Jerboa app instead of using my mobile browser, only to discover I had messages...Thank you. I've been trying to step out of my comfort zone and contribute. Your encouragement helps :)
I feel like I get the chance to see interesting posts here before they have 100+ comments much more frequently than reddit, which makes me more likely to comment here since it won’t just get washed away in the sea
I actually used reddit with no account, you know, there was clients allowed us to use reddit wtih subscribing without account.
But here, in lemmy, I have an account and am much more active.
I have one subreddit (sports) whose user base is either not not aware of, or caring about, the current issues with Reddit. I don't see them migrating, so I'll still be checking in there.
Also have still been checking r/modcoord for the latest news on the protest from the correct side, but that's more of a current events type thing, and I'm more interested in it as far as it pertains to Lemmy's growth and the effects on that, than how it's impacting Reddit.
Outside of those couple of things, I've pretty much been spending my time here on Lemmy since I signed up... I'm very much enjoying the experience here, it feels much more like Reddit used to way back when, before it exploded in bots and astroturfing.
I was a strong user of Reddit for almost a decade, but I already feel at home here and don't have intentions of heavily using Reddit anymore.
For sure. I can’t remember the last time I actually posted or commented on reddit. I would do that thing where sometimes I’d even start to type a reply and then just trash it before posting. Here, I actually feel like contributing.
Yes, definitely. Between so many comments already replying what I was going to say and the high likelihood of being rudely corrected on anything I have to say, reddit is just less fun to interact with.
Over here, people are more likely to respectfully disagree, and it's less crowded, for now.
I feel like there is more drive to interact because it's smaller, we want it to take off, and it feels like I am talking to real ppl and not a karma farming bot.
Commenting here is more rewarding because you don’t stumble onto a popular thread only to see that it’s already got 3000 other comments and there’s no chance of anyone seeing yours.
Yep, but i closed my reddit account a while ago.
I feel like reddit karna makes conversations less thoughtful. Everyone wants to post a quick quip and get karma, making the conversation pretty useless.
Definitely, but I never really got into Reddit. Coincidently I had waited until just a couple months ago to try out Reddit and then Lemmy happened so no big loss for me.
I've been more active on this site than I ever have been on reddit lol. At best I was lurking on reddit or search up the odd error that popped up on my PC.
@zephyr There's definitely a bias to the people more active who will comment here, but I feel I'm less active, which is a good thing, as Lemmy is less addictive.
Ya because theres less mass downvoting (tho i never got mass downvoted except once when i put an emoji on reddit) and less "ummm ackshully" people, usually people offer corrections in a more constructive way that stimulates conversation here. Also on Reddit esp. really big subreddits there'd just be comment threads of the same jokes over and over "and my axe! I also choose this guy's wife! Narrator: he did not" and I didnt really wanna participate in that lol
I am, because I don't have to worry about a bot or some overzealous mod deleting everything I post because I didn't include the right kind of "flair" or some other nonsense.
In Reddit I lurked during five years until I felt confident enough to post again after bad experiences with my two first posts (in a stationery subreddit, nothing too complicated). And I only did it in Spanish subs because they did not fried you with negatives. The Karma thing.
Here I started to post two hours after creating my account.
I've been using Lemmy a lot but I'm not sure how much time I was spending on Reddit. I feel like I check it more, but maybe I just noticed more now because I took my reddit app off my phone
Definitely. I am more of a lurker than a poster, though. Which is difficult because there is not a ton of content yet. I want to contribute of my own but find it a bit difficult.
I don't know? A little? Can't say for sure. Though for some rather niche subreddits, I haven't found alternatives yet. And there some game-specific subreddits that tie to some fairly niche games, there's no fediverse community for those that I've found yet.
I think there's research that's shown 100-150 people is a critical limit for a community to feel meaningful. It's why the subreddits with the smaller number of active posters did so much better.
Definitely, I've been busy but I'd love to make more posts when I have more time, especially once apps start getting better for it. I'm a big fan of connect, but you can't save images yet which is a bummer
Yeah, like you said, it's wanting Lemmy to work and watching it grow. I think most people here so far are passionate about being here, and I love it.
I never did get around to starting a subreddit, but starting a community meant wanting to post something a couple times a day to keep content flowing while people discover it.
I think I comment a little more frequently than I did on Reddit. I'm positive that's a side effect of us having fewer users here, so there's less noise and fewer comments for you to get drowned out in.
The content is just not there yet for me, so I spend less time overall. But at the same time, I feel like the community is way better than what was on Reddit and even though I sometimes fall into the old Reddit comment behavior, I think overall this place is a lot more welcoming and open.
I've had my reddit for a bit over a decade, mostly lurking, but commenting every so often. I'm in a pretty similar pattern on here, mostly lurking but commenting when I have something to positively contribute to a post, but these instances are still growing. We're still in the exponential side of the logistic curve, lots of new communities are being made, lots of curating to do as the instance grows and new communities keep popping up.
Definitely. Since I found out how to filter correctly and with other subreddits coming over- its been getting better and better. I don't want this to be another reddit, but having some content that made reddit fun isn't all that bad imo.
Lemmy does not allow subscribing to communities without an account. Unless something like RES comes out at some point, I do believe that a lot of lurkers will indeed be more active here, than they were on reddit.
Yes, I never felt like commenting when there were hundreds of previous comments. Here, with just a few comments, it feel like it an actual contribution, not a drop in the ocean. I also spend more time reading each comment.
And even if a post has many comments on here you still get interaction because they sort by "Hot" by default (at least on kbin)
I think this is a big part of it. On the other site you’d really have to be early on a popular post, otherwise there’d already be thousands of comments and it didn’t feel worth the effort.
Yep same here. I'd usually browse 'all' on reddit and everything that could be said had already been said in the comments. So it kind of felt what's the point.
It's made me realise that I don't want Lemmy to become a reddit clone for this reason. If it gets too big it'll be the same issue.
Lemmy is growing very, very quickly but I still feel like there’s more interaction between actual humans here and not some stupid karma farming bots. I came over here before the Reddit civil war started and there’s been more and more content every day without it feeling contrived. I’m quite fond of Lemmy at this point.
Content felt like it exploded just over the past couple of days. The coverage of world news events has been excellent. Memes have homes. It has been nice.
The breath of fresh air has generally been maturity in a lot of posts. Reddit felt like junior high deduction skills most of the time. I don't expect it to last, but it makes me engage more.
It really has. The first week or so was a bit discouraging but Lemmy has exploded recently. I’m extremely pleased that I can get my world news and my poop jokes in one place again. I scrubbed my Reddit comments and deleted my account much like Cortés burned his ships.
Lemmy feels like real people. Reddit was just overrun by bots and astroturfing. The more time I spend here the more I realize that.
Regarding 2, it is sort of ridiculous how many comments some posts get on reddit. And you're really unlikely to get any interaction leaving a comment on a post that already has say, 12,000 comments, while meanwhile due to the way the site works, more and more people see the posts that are already at the top.
It's easy to sort by new and camp new posts
You underestimate the power of defaults. I can guarantee you a large percentage of people might even know it’s possible but don’t want to bother tinkering with settings or just forget about that on the few minutes they just scroll and read/comment.
Having to collapse so many low effort joke comments to find real discussion on reddit, if at all, was very annoying.
I didn't realize that was something I have not had to do here yet, quite nice.
Right, then sometimes a reply to the top comment would be “this” then for some reason everyone keeps just replying “this”
That
I definitely feel more inclined to comment. Especially since so many posts have so little comments. It feels like my comments are more worthwhile to write to add to the discussion.
Yeah same here, I'll revert to lurking when every post start to reach 500+ comments with more then half of the comments trying to pun.
Omg, yes that was so annoying!
I gotta be honest, I'm looking forward to the day I can go back to lurking. There aren't enough populated niche communities on here.
It is a hard habit to break. I mostly lurked on reddit, a few comments here and there. Trying to engage and post a bit more than I would have previously.
Yes. 99% of the time I lurked because I felt like all my opinions were already voiced in other comments.
For some reason Lemmy feels easier to post on for me personally.
There's more engagement here, you can comment late and have people talking with you.
I think this is what it is for me. I usually just scrolled hot in r/all but by the time I saw posts the conversation had already ended
Very much yes. Now I can make relevant and helpful comments without 50 other people saying the same thing before I even saw the post. I feel like my contribution here matters.
Yeah, I often would type something, realize there was no point because it had been said already, and then delete it. Here I will actually post a link without it having been shared hours before! It's neat.
I still find myself deleting and saying forget it. Time to commit to hit send more
I had a Reddit account for 10 years and never made a single post, but I actually made a post here so I'm definitely more active here. It'll probably end up being my only post as more users join Lemmy but I made the post primarily because I wanted more posts to hopefully encourage Lemmy growth.
ditto
Heard!
In Reddit, your words are a drop in the deluge of the masses. Here, every comment, or even a humble upvote can make a difference.
I need to become more active and lurk less.
Lemmy has made me realize that choosing communities (similar to subreddits) is important to me. I try not to search by /all and find information I am interested in. Having to join new communities again is not exactly a problem.
Yeah, I do kinda feel like I'm commenting more on posts that I wouldn't have commented on over at reddit. Not sure why, probably has at least something to do with tje fact that I want to contribute to this place. I think it's also that people on here do seem to be more laid back and less confrontational over things that don't call for a confrontation. I like it here.
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I know, I fit in well /s
I do post comments here more than reddit. Partly to help keep engagement up, but also because I haven't seen many shitheads trying to make me feel bad.
You can still have meaningful contributions right now, and we can't afford to lurk as much. We We need to help out with content, the content we want to see.
Ditto. I still do read Reddit because there are some subs there which had not significantly moved over (yet, hopefully), but I post and interact more on here.
Definitely me, was on Reddit for over a decade and I already posted more here.
Absolutely.
Actually, I'm probably writing about the same number of replies. It's just that here I'm much more likely to actually post them.
On Reddit, I tended to write out replies, then visualize what was going to happen if I posted it - if I got any response at all, it was likely to just be a troll or a shill or a bot regurgitating some bit of emotive rhetoric or a tired meme. Then I'd just delete it instead of posting it.
Here, the only likely negative outcome is nothing at all. If somebody does respond, it's actually likely that it'll not only be a real person, but that they'll actually post real thoughts rather than just rhetoric and memes.
I had forgotten what that feels like.
I heard a quote once that said "The cost of living in a good community is community service." I've been using that as my drive to interact with posts more here.
That's a great way of looking at things, and something to reflect on. It drove me to say that, lol.
I am averaging an unhealthy amount of comments per day, and I'm enjoying every moment.
I feel like I'm keeping a journal, only the book talks back to me in a thought provoking manner. You guys have been really great for me.
Yeah, that's strange because Lemmy actually has less content than Reddit. I don't even lurk any subs I have subscribed, I just sort by new.
It's much better this way than Reddit for me, even though that.
I'm trying to be more active here largely because more people want want to join a site that seems like it's mostly dead with only a handful of posting/commenting.
I'm not really much of a content creator, and I'm hoping we quickly get enough active users that I can fall back to mostly lurking and chiming in when I have something to add.
Mostly this. I definitely check it less than I did reddit, but when I do I try to engage more. That's probably partly because there's less comments. On reddit I read a lot of aith and bestofredditorupdates and relationship_advice. So there were lots of comments to read by the time I got there. This is more like reading r/new and having to create engagement rather than responding to one of the thousands of comments
It's a lot easier to find conversations here. Vibes like reddit of 5-10 years ago. When communities get too big, the most popular gets pretty boring for people with niche tastes.
Yeah. Popular reddit posts from 4h or older...you're just shouting into the wind.
You still would get good conversations on smaller communities, but the popular subs it was mostly reading other people's witticisms that people would put on the post while it was in "new". Mostly those seemed to be karma whoring people who would try to get comment karma from saying something edgy or funny at the beginning of a post and then "benefit" when the post gets to r/all.
All communities get this way when they grow enough in size. There are only so many unique opinions to express on a subject, and a finite amount of interest someone will have to keep reading a thread. It essentially becomes a race to see who can express the idea first, and we have an easier time winning a race with fewer competitors.
Yeah. I always felt my comments or posts on Reddit would drown in the noise but Lemmy is still small and I want to contribute to its growth.
I genuinely had more meaningful interactions on lemmy so far than in my 2 years of using reddit.
The first time in years it feels actually fun to engage with people, rather than just doomscroll endless void of content
I plan on being more active on Lemmy - Reddit was mostly read-only for me for years, but the smaller community here feels like engaging wouldn't just be screaming into the void.
The social anxiety is much less as the crowds are smaller so posting feels like it's being heard. Feels like I'm actually a part of a conversation
Edit: I forget which account is my main though so my comments are displaced. Which is probably good
I find I'm having the opposite problem with social anxiety. I feel like I'll be seen here and it's making it difficult to comment. Though since I just made my account last night and this is my first comment, I guess I'm being active much sooner. I didn't leave a comment on reddit for months after making an account...
I think you will find that people here, at least with the current population, are pretty understanding, and I, for one, would love to hear your thoughts.
I finally made my way back into the Jerboa app instead of using my mobile browser, only to discover I had messages...Thank you. I've been trying to step out of my comfort zone and contribute. Your encouragement helps :)
Hi from another person that feels similar (joins discord server, never engages) you’re not alone
I find that so reassuring, thank you!
Yes…please please please Apollo for this place. Clunky interface is my biggest impediment to using more.
I feel like I get the chance to see interesting posts here before they have 100+ comments much more frequently than reddit, which makes me more likely to comment here since it won’t just get washed away in the sea
Yeah I'm sick of the sanitized sterile nature of corporate run social media. This platform has the ability to grow and change as the users want it to.
I actually used reddit with no account, you know, there was clients allowed us to use reddit wtih subscribing without account. But here, in lemmy, I have an account and am much more active.
160+ posts already, I'm impressed. All of it in less than 2 weeks. Meanwhile on Reddit it was constantly walking on eggshells.
damn my dude how do you find so many subjects to post about?
one thing I do is go to the frontpage and then sort by top day
I have one subreddit (sports) whose user base is either not not aware of, or caring about, the current issues with Reddit. I don't see them migrating, so I'll still be checking in there.
Also have still been checking r/modcoord for the latest news on the protest from the correct side, but that's more of a current events type thing, and I'm more interested in it as far as it pertains to Lemmy's growth and the effects on that, than how it's impacting Reddit.
Outside of those couple of things, I've pretty much been spending my time here on Lemmy since I signed up... I'm very much enjoying the experience here, it feels much more like Reddit used to way back when, before it exploded in bots and astroturfing.
I was a strong user of Reddit for almost a decade, but I already feel at home here and don't have intentions of heavily using Reddit anymore.
For sure. I can’t remember the last time I actually posted or commented on reddit. I would do that thing where sometimes I’d even start to type a reply and then just trash it before posting. Here, I actually feel like contributing.
Yes, definitely. Between so many comments already replying what I was going to say and the high likelihood of being rudely corrected on anything I have to say, reddit is just less fun to interact with.
Over here, people are more likely to respectfully disagree, and it's less crowded, for now.
I feel like there is more drive to interact because it's smaller, we want it to take off, and it feels like I am talking to real ppl and not a karma farming bot.
Plus it's exciting to see it get bigger and better everyday, which might nudge some to participate.
Commenting here is more rewarding because you don’t stumble onto a popular thread only to see that it’s already got 3000 other comments and there’s no chance of anyone seeing yours.
Definitely, I am sick of big tech CEO's greed.
Absolutely! For once in a long time I'm actually actively creating original content for Lemmy... whereas before, I just sort of accepted how it was.
Not yet, but that's all gonna change when my preferred app for Reddit presumably dies a week from today.
Yep, but i closed my reddit account a while ago. I feel like reddit karna makes conversations less thoughtful. Everyone wants to post a quick quip and get karma, making the conversation pretty useless.
Definitely, but I never really got into Reddit. Coincidently I had waited until just a couple months ago to try out Reddit and then Lemmy happened so no big loss for me.
Yes, a lot. Here, I have a lot of communities and try to create a lot of post here!
Not yet. They're are some niche subs I go to that have no equivalents here.
I've been more active on this site than I ever have been on reddit lol. At best I was lurking on reddit or search up the odd error that popped up on my PC.
@zephyr There's definitely a bias to the people more active who will comment here, but I feel I'm less active, which is a good thing, as Lemmy is less addictive.
Same. I feel a bit pressure to post in the hopes Lemmy will grow…
Ya because theres less mass downvoting (tho i never got mass downvoted except once when i put an emoji on reddit) and less "ummm ackshully" people, usually people offer corrections in a more constructive way that stimulates conversation here. Also on Reddit esp. really big subreddits there'd just be comment threads of the same jokes over and over "and my axe! I also choose this guy's wife! Narrator: he did not" and I didnt really wanna participate in that lol
I am, because I don't have to worry about a bot or some overzealous mod deleting everything I post because I didn't include the right kind of "flair" or some other nonsense.
I'm pretty sure I've commented more often (or at least in the ballpark) on here than in my whole time on Reddit
In Reddit I lurked during five years until I felt confident enough to post again after bad experiences with my two first posts (in a stationery subreddit, nothing too complicated). And I only did it in Spanish subs because they did not fried you with negatives. The Karma thing.
Here I started to post two hours after creating my account.
If we are not active this place will never take off so post some content! :D
Absolutely, I hadn't posted to reddit for so long because it was pointless. Here feels different, at least for now.
I've been using Lemmy a lot but I'm not sure how much time I was spending on Reddit. I feel like I check it more, but maybe I just noticed more now because I took my reddit app off my phone
Definitely. I am more of a lurker than a poster, though. Which is difficult because there is not a ton of content yet. I want to contribute of my own but find it a bit difficult.
I don't know? A little? Can't say for sure. Though for some rather niche subreddits, I haven't found alternatives yet. And there some game-specific subreddits that tie to some fairly niche games, there's no fediverse community for those that I've found yet.
I think there's research that's shown 100-150 people is a critical limit for a community to feel meaningful. It's why the subreddits with the smaller number of active posters did so much better.
Thats true for me :)
Definitely, I've been busy but I'd love to make more posts when I have more time, especially once apps start getting better for it. I'm a big fan of connect, but you can't save images yet which is a bummer
edit: you can download things now
Yeah, like you said, it's wanting Lemmy to work and watching it grow. I think most people here so far are passionate about being here, and I love it.
I never did get around to starting a subreddit, but starting a community meant wanting to post something a couple times a day to keep content flowing while people discover it.
Its enjoyable so far and I would, like everyone else here, like for this for work out.
do we need more posts asking lemmy users how often they use lemmy
Yes
I think I comment a little more frequently than I did on Reddit. I'm positive that's a side effect of us having fewer users here, so there's less noise and fewer comments for you to get drowned out in.
Mayby, but in my case is because here doesn't exist any kind of points(karma), more natural posting
The content is just not there yet for me, so I spend less time overall. But at the same time, I feel like the community is way better than what was on Reddit and even though I sometimes fall into the old Reddit comment behavior, I think overall this place is a lot more welcoming and open.
Right now, no. Soon, very much so.
I've had my reddit for a bit over a decade, mostly lurking, but commenting every so often. I'm in a pretty similar pattern on here, mostly lurking but commenting when I have something to positively contribute to a post, but these instances are still growing. We're still in the exponential side of the logistic curve, lots of new communities are being made, lots of curating to do as the instance grows and new communities keep popping up.
Yeah definitely , I try to engage more to also push more content up 😁
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Yes
Definitely. Since I found out how to filter correctly and with other subreddits coming over- its been getting better and better. I don't want this to be another reddit, but having some content that made reddit fun isn't all that bad imo.
Lemmy does not allow subscribing to communities without an account. Unless something like RES comes out at some point, I do believe that a lot of lurkers will indeed be more active here, than they were on reddit.
I have made more posts since I joined kbin than I have in years of being in Reddit. The conversations here just seem more genuine.