Yeah, but I'm still doing it on purpose to help the community grow. Somebody's gotta fill this place with content, and at the end of the day that's our job.

Normally I'm more of a commenter exclusively unless I need the services of a specific community. (video game question usually) But the Lemmy project has sent me digging for all the best youtube stuff I've seen in basically the past decade and then finding the community to shove it in.

Still a lurker tbh, aside from this comment

I am but I'm very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.

Agreed. It’s a smaller community and easier to feel seen. I’ve probably already posted more here than I ever have on Reddit.

I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually'd to death. Sometimes I'd be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, "This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it."

I used to be an avid participant on reddit, but haven't been for a long time. Now on Lemmy, I feel like participating again.

I think it's because it's on us to make this a great place now. Like, we can't just migrate and be silent. Or migrate and be assholes. We come here, we gotta participate positively, so I'm just doing my part.

Always felt unwelcome posting anything on reddit. Lemmy is new enough and filled with people who are nice enough to make feel like I wont get yelled at for commenting or posting.

Me and my people are powered by spite. I am going to try and be more active to help everything along so that reddit may die.

Same here, every post feels like I'm making a small contribution to a platform which I really want to succeed.

I am a lurker for life, probably, but I will try to be better for Lemmy, to help the site grow.

Posting is essential to get this community up and running so thanks!

this is me returning to form, as algorithms put me into a hole engagement on my posts went to crap, i stopped posting at this level over 10 years ago now.

having a proper forum again, Im posting like I used to, my google fu is once again being shared with the community.

whats interesting is reddits algo would lead you to believe what you are saying or posting has no value. i come here, and started just posting as normal, expecting nothing, surprised but also reminded of how algos work when i found normal levels of engagement again.

I think that as a result of the size of reddit, it was unlikely to have engagement when you commented, and it was common to get unkind engagement if it did happen. It’s nice to have a fresh start, but since there’s less of us, it is also a much more intimate experience.

For sure. Also more happy to upvote.

What I like about Lemmy is, that you don't need to be one of the first comments to interact with people. On Reddit you would easily be buried somewhere at the bottom but most Lemmy posts I see have a really nice comment section. People are more likely to see your comment because the posts don't have hundreds of comments but there are still enough comments to start a conversation. I also love that I can have conversations stretched over days. I don't browse Lemmy often. I don't need to feel bad when I answer something a day later.

Not to that extent, but yea.

Maybe because posting here seems less like shouting into the void? I get replies to most of my posts and comments. Way more engagement.

Yep! Since it is a smaller community, it feels less like screaming into the void. There's a good chance people will see a comment, even if it isn't made in the first hour or so.

For me the main factor was replies slanted extremely mean on Reddit, whereas here it's only been polite conversation so far.

I'm perfectly willing to talk on a platform where I'm not getting death threats because I didn't like a videogame or whatever.

I'm doing my best to post more content.

I'd comment lots on reddit, but rarely post. On Lemmy, I post! Even started a community!

I've posted here in the past week or two more than I posted on Reddit in the past 11 years. I think it's the smaller more engaged community that encourages me to do it. Comments don't just get lost in a sea of jokes and grammar bots.

Yes!

i'm more interested in participating since i know what i do and say here wont be swallowed by a black hole.

Absolutely! I'm posting multiple times a day some days and commenting a lot more. It feels a bit more like you get noticed but also doesn't feel like you're going to get your head bitten off just for speaking. And you can use emojis here 👍👋

I’ve always been a lurker, but I am trying to change. However, I don’t want to comment for the sake of just commenting as well.

Definitely true for me. I was a pure lurker on Reddit. Now with Lemmy I try to engage a lot more. This place needs to come to life (and I feel like we're doing well, so far).

I guess it's because this is something you want to actively grow, as opposed to being a drop in the ocean back at Reddit

It's like jump starting the engine. We need a spark

Barely ever posted on Reddit, but have already outdone the total post count here. Haven't posted in a while though, mostly because of post-work brain melt

It's the novelty mostly, plus the fact that smaller communities are more fun to engage in. The same thing happened back on Voat.

The same happened here. More than 16 years on Reddit, and most of them as a not-very-active lurker. But here? I'm commenting every day.

As a FOSS guy, here I feel at home. From the community to the community.

Yes! I couldn't agree more, before on reddit I didn't participate in any discussion, pretty much a lurker. I enjoy discussions a lot here! They are way better.

Yep, I feel more comfortable interacting here than on reddit, maybe it's because of the way less toxicity here.

There's a common understanding that if you want more activity you need more activity to attract more people. Its a feedback loop that requires engagement. We lurkers know that the best way to help Lemmy grow to a critical mass is to temporarily become active for the sake of fucking over reddit.

I've posted more but I'm still mostly a lurker. I have enjoyed reading the actual discussion here. The comments at reddit got to be so formulaic and the same across posts, it's refreshing to see actual thought and effort go into making comments.

I’ve started commenting more often. I don’t really have much to share/talk about atm, but commenting here is great because there is a significantly reduced chance of someone replying to my comment just to try and 1-UP my ass.

I'm pretty sure I already have more posts on Lemmy than my entire 10 years on Reddit 🤣

Can't really explain why but I'm way more active here. I think I just really want Lemmy to succeed.

Less people = less jerks = less fear when reading replies.

Me! It just took a while to find my place here.

I had the same lurker status back on reddit and definitely feel more inclined to post here. I think part of it is that for at least right now, individual comments really are setting up the success of lemmy so it feels good to be a part of that. Also, back on reddit those hardcore karma farmers dominated the threads. You had to find niche subreddits for comments to feel like they mattered...everything else was a "why bother" feeling.

Idk i was that mid-level commenter, rare poster on Reddit. There were subs i commented a dozen or more times a day while others i subbed purely to read what others post.

What i like about Lemmy, which is what i liked about Mastodon, is that its not flooded with constant noise. A smaller community means far less garbage.

This is my first comment on Lemmy! I like the smaller community. It seems more welcoming.

This place reminds me of old school Reddit, before they started trying to turn it into a traditional social media platform. I love it!

Definitely. I'm much more likely to comment when I'm not prepared for 70% of the readers to interpret what I write the worst possible way on purpose lol.

It'll be a scale thing, though. For one, most instances have a human-manned review process. And for two, we have low enough users that communities don't homogenise into echo chambers as easily. This will change as any particular instance (or Lemmy's federated instances) gain more users.

I'm feeling some of that early internet charm here. That might be part of why I'm a little more active. Still a lurker through and through.

I’m really confident Lemmy can be the future, so I’m being as active as possible while it’s small.

To everyone reading this: if you see a post with 0 comments, even a few days old, leave one. You could spark a conversation.

Maybe it's because in Lemmy you're not gonna be "late" compared to in Reddit

I'm very surprised by how much more I'm commenting, and I've even made a few posts!

I guess it comes with the feeling of exploring and establishing a new platform. Having this shared feeling towards reddit unites is, and this new platform gives us a new home.

You have to add kindling to build the fire, and thats why I try not to only lurk here.

I like to say things on the internet

I’m more of a lurker as well, but I want lemmy to be successful so I’m trying to learn to be more active

Yes and no.

When I'm at my PC, yes I did become more active.

On mobile, I'm waiting for a better app like Relay and Sync to finally make Lemmy usable. Jerboa is barely-functional even with the latest update which finally added UI improvements, at the cost of making the app unusable with instances running on older versions of Lemmy and a slew of other glitches that make certain tabs unviewable.

I feel the need to contribute so the community continues to thrive.

https://www.reactiongifs.us/im-doing-my-part-starship-troopers/

I had a Reddit account ~10y ago. I was only a lurker in the days before the exodus. This feels like a real community.

Frist psot! /s

Not really... yet. While I enjoy the memes and stuff I miss my smaller niche communities. While some subs the I was part of on reddit were created over here it seems that they are pretty dead and not even the creators/mods care about them. At the moment I don't have the time and energy to build something up from the ground... but I'm gonna stay and do my part!

Definitely. For one, lemmy is something I'd actually want to support, whereas I've always been ambivalent to reddit. But also, the user base on lemmy right now is probably closer to my interests than average.

I became more active here because I don't feel like I'm contributing to a corporation. This is an open source software run by people who are just doing it because they like doing it.

Yep. Haven't been so active on Reddit. It feels kinda great.

I'm still deciding if I'll become a more active poster. I'd like to see this place grow.

It's hard to get noticed on Reddit (unless you make a typo!)

Unless you're the first to post on a new topic that goes on to be popular, then no matter what you say you get read and gain karma. If you comment on something a few hours old, nobody ever reads it.

You're one voice in a city. Whereas here, we're a village. Less anonymous, friendlier, easier to get talking to your neighbour.

I'm posting, but I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't think I 'get' Lemmy. Do all the dozens of instances have their own versions of communities and conversations? What's the connection? 🤷

It's nice because I always wondered what it was like being one of the early redditors (we've all seen those "when everything was better back in my days" comments), and it's as if I got chance at a magic Internet Reset button. Feeling that excitement that first got me into reddit, as I'm browsing and learning about the fediverse. Love it.

I didn't post on Reddit because I felt no desire to give free content to a business making money from me. Although lots of people really felt like it was a community, I didn't. I thought it was like a theme park - dressed up like a town in order to make you feel like you weren't inside a store. This seems like a real community, at least at the moment.

I love that a service that isn't making a buck off of us gets levels of engagement that for-profit social networks would kill for.

This is happening because:

• Novelty, because new is fun. This will go down over time.
• The most passionate users are more likely to be early adopters. More casual users are coming.
• Smaller network means your content is less likely to be covered before. This factor will go down over time.
• Fediverse encourages multiple related communities, which means your specific contributions are more likely to be seen by other users.
• Lack of bots/astroturfing leads to more positive interactions. Bots will likely increase over time.

Therefore, I expect engagement will go down over time, but I am hopeful it will reach a higher point of stability because the fediverse design seems better at getting more varied content seen by its users, and it makes it harder for a small group of people or posts to dominate the discussion space.

PS: Anybody know how to add a space after the last bullet in a list?

I think I find myself participating more generally, now that I’m not necessarily frequenting specific subreddits

I've become a more avid shitposter.

I think smaller communities are more inviting. For me it's a combination of wanting Lemmy to succeed, now that Reddit has begun it's downward spiral, and feeling more involved in communities. Though I have only just created my account, so only time will tell if I continue to be active.

Yes all my comments are non relevant nonsense but I'm having fun.

It could be the "shiny new thing" syndrome, the majority of people here (me included) might be just riding the "high" of joining in. Gotta wait and see how we'll be in 3+ months

Not shouting into a tornado helps a great deal.

Trying. Lemmy needs content and commenters are a big part of Reddit.

I’m in this boat. I just want to see lemmy succeed as a legit Reddit alternative.

Edit: WefWef has made me feel right at home, coming from the Apollo app. If you haven’t tried it, check it out! (https://wefwef.app)

I find myself more willing to comment/participate now. I'm not sure if it's because I feel that I am getting in from the "beginning" or if it's just because the community feels more "real", but there is definitely a difference from Reddit.

Been on the same boat, as for me been lurking for quite sometime mainly because too lazy to login and felt not worth to post/comment. I think the main difference here now is we felt obligated to post/comment because we want lemmy to succeed. Simply speaking I think our post/comment here value more than in reddit which will probably get buried down the thread.

Agreed. I've been posting way more frequently than in Reddit. Although admittedly, the more engaging topics are there. But we're barely a month into rexxit so the leaps this platform have made is impressive enough.

It's nice to post in a place that has enthusiasm, rather than a place that's become a rote content-mill

I rarely posted on Reddit, mostly because I would try to find a conversation already in progress instead of making my own post. Also, my posts rarely caught that much traction. I commented a lot more frequently, several times a week. I'm still fairly infrequent, mostly because in my early internet years I posted A LOT of cringe on Facebook/Myspace so I tend to be a little more measured in my internet footprint now.

Not much yet but been lurking a fuck ton. It was a lot easier then I thought it was gonna be getting use to this. I didn't even had to do what I did when I first joined reddit! I had a damn Digg UI addon for Reddit for like 2 months til I settled on old.reddit.

Aye, folks here are a lot friendlier so tis easier to post!

Yeah, -- with Lemmy being a smaller community it's much more interactive than just commenting/posting and it being buried. last time I posted/commented on reddit was like around 3-4 years ago, so always been a lurker, going to change now with Lemmy.

definitely, felling kinda social lately

I think it helps that the community vibe is completely different here. On some reddit subs your posts would get automatically removed for the most arbitrary reasons, and that really discouraged people from participating. Here I haven't encountered anything like that yet and most of the people that do participate have been super cool too.

I've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?

With much smaller user base, one can actually get their posts/replies seen. Big difference.

Echoing what’s already been said here but just voicing that the same is true for me. It feels people actually read and engage with my posts, and what I have to say won’t be drowned out by the masses.

Part of the reason I think it’s ok to have slight barrier to entry that the fediverse has in general.

I spent years on Apollo and never even made an account, would just infinite scroll at work. Made an account on Lemmy and already feel like I’m more engaged

yeah people have mentioned already I've seen as a reason. This is because of active/hot, where on reddit the top comment was top because it was highest voted, there's something different going on with sorting here.

Well this feels fresh and new, and also people want to experiment with this new platform. Pretty foreseeable.

I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times

Yeah, I've been posting a lot more on the websites I've switched to. Just want to help build the community, ya know?

Reddit mods censored a lot of content both posts and comments. That was part of the reason reddit was not a positive experience and became a echo chamber. Lemmy appears to be more like the old internet where there were a diverse community of ideas and views.

Definitely replying more instead of just lurking.

I’m thinking it’s a combination of

1. my perception that I can expect a reply if I comment
2. My curiosity about Lemmy
3. I find more post relatable (probably because I am learning alongside others about Lemmy)

Well when your on a growing app it's not just your right to post, it's your duty!

I am more of a sarcastic commenter. Made a couple of posts though. However, I am upvoting a lot more stuff here as I never really upvoted posts on that other site that hates 3rd party stuff. I want to make sure this stuff actually works and people don’t go crawling back to that site that makes you Spez out.

Was a lurker on most subreddits, a lot of things I wanted to comment likely had been said so I would just upvote them. Whilst right now (still getting my head round the instances), I feel more inclined to comment when there are low comment volumes.

I lurked reddit for more than a decade and maybe posted 5 times. I hit that my first day here I think. Not sure what the difference is... I guess the smaller user base makes me feel like I can actually engage in a conversation with someone rather than just have my post disappear into the thousands already on a post

We all should. That's how we turn this platform successful over reddit. I've also noticed communities don't suck as much (for now), I could be wrong but I don't seem to see so much toxicity like I do on reddit nowadays

Gotta help seed the content so newcomers have something to look at. I've been uploading game clips and the like to the relevant subreddits communities (wow, I really just did make this mistake without thinking and only went back to correct it minutes later; shows how used I am to the old place) to help build the initial content base.

That, and the place genuinely does seem just a bit friendlier than Reddit. That may change when the number of users gets bigger, but I'm at least enjoying it for now.

I had Reddit for almost 10 years, yet in the <1 month that I've started using alternatives I've already posted/commented more. Not sure why it it feels more enjoyable engaging in discusison on the Reddit alternatives, but it's probably the lower user levels creating a nicer environment.

Absolutely, I feel closer to the community here on lemmy.

I think actually feeling like you are being seen is a big factor for me. I felt buried in Reddit and so far this community just feels right. I really do hope it stays that way.

i feel less desire to troll here. Just feels mean and horrible.

Just doing my part to test the system. See what clicks, maybe it'll get better with my humble reply, one at a time

I really like the default active sorting keeping discussions in older threads alive for longer. The comment sorting also makes it easier to join discussions later on :)

I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.

Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.

Yeah, I found this to be true. I’m a lurker on reddit but a poster on lemmy. I am also actively brainstorming of more topics to create to help engagement in lemmy. I guess it’s because most of us want to see this to succeed and make it a viable competitor (and eventual replacement as the defacto front page of the internet) to reddit.

I certainly have.

Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.

I just joined today and will always stay a lurker but I've mainly noticed a difference in the type of comment I feel prompted to make. On Reddit I mostly gave advice to other people, because you or any opinions were never going to get noticed anywhere else anyway (unless you were lucky, I guess), the community here right now is a lot more casual and so are my replies.

i feel like iam actually contributing to the community and helping to build this platform. in Reddit it doesn't feel like your making a difference

I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.

In a way I feel kind of responsible to be more active to promote the community more. I want this to succeed and it won't without content, so I probably will end up being a lot more active than I used to be on reddit too

I don't know if it's just me but it reminds me of early Reddit, without all the Karma whoring

Yeah, definitely engaging way more than before. People are nicer here.

I think lemmy.world (or other lemmy instances you are ok of) is the place for me to learn how to communicate with others.

Before then, I never post and comment anything on Facebook and Twitter. Now I comment a lot here.

Same, long-time reddit lurker here. I have posted more on Lemmy than I've posted on reddit in years.

I have already written more comments here than I ever did on reddit. I want lemmy to succeed and it needs even us lurkers to do that. It ain't much--but I am commenting ;)

Agreed. Maybe it's because aside from such a welcoming community, a lot of us shared this collective experience coming from Reddit. It oddly feels at home here.

Posting and commenting on Lemmy feels a lot better, like a breath of fresh air. The last few years on Reddit got progressively more combative as certain types of people found their soap box there. Literally any comment could turn into a toxic political spitting match when the topic had nothing to do with politics. Probably a good mix of trolls and bots in there to incite the toxicity among the actual people who bought it. It’s amazing how many people actively defend Reddit’s ability to milk their user base and I think that says a lot about the community too.

Also always feels easier to get in on the ground floor of a new community before things are settled. Things get clique-y and stale after a long while. I think most people who have played an MMO (or other mostly online game) from launch versus playing an MMO after it’s been established a while can relate to that feeling.

I just hope we see more of the niche communities come over. A number of smaller communities decided to go to Discord only, which is a fine chat platform but that’s not a Reddit or forum replacement.

I didn't make posts all that often on reddit, but I definitely commented a fair amount. The problem I've got with lemmy right now is there's not as much discussion about stuff I'm interested in, so I'm mainly just looking at All instead of keeping to my subscribed communities.

I haven't posted but I've sure commented more times in the past 48 hours than I'd posted on reddit in probably the last year.

I'm loving the engagement I'm seeing. And the fact you're here means we have more in common that the vast majority of users I interacted with on reddit even when I did interact on reddit.

If anything, the opposite.

The algorithm knew me. Losing the algorithm is like losing a friend... the dickhead that always asked for money.

Here you can actually have your main page set to All without most of it being crap and can actually make a thought through post in a generic forum with a high likelihood that it gets engaged with in a positive way.

In Reddit you had to stick to browsing on Subscribed and the generic communities are swamped with karma-farming low-effort today's-consensus-following posts or posts trying to start flamewars.

Over there I pretty much only contributed in one or two highly specialized forums, here I participate in the general community.

Yes I’ve definitely posted more here than Reddit. The only thing that keeps me from posting more is performance issues. There have been a few times when I wrote a response but the post button just spins and eventually I give up.

I haven't been, unfortunately. I joined around a week ago and this is my first comment. It seems I'm just as much of a lurker here as I was on Reddit. I suppose this is as good a time as any to change that and try to become more active.

Lenmy feels very new to me and I'm glad to be away from the echo chamber that's Reddit. No more "who's cutting onions", "this is the way" and "sauce?". I'm done with it. Just done. Let's see what Lemmy had to offer. :)

The interactions feel more authentic here. Sometimes I would read a single comment chain where multiple people were talking about separate subjects and somehow still having a conversation. It made my head hurt.

Not yet, but in Reddit in recent years I mostly posted in niche little places for interests I didn't know there was a community for. I'm just hoping they will migrate or evolve over here because I found so many fun little hobbies because of the organic finding of new subs that Reddit seemed to foster.

And I have a 4mo old baby so that limits my time too. Every day though there is more and more, so I'm hoping I'll be a contributor to help it grow soon!

I absolutely did, at least for commenting. Partly because I want to create traffic for Lemmy, and partly because it feels just... Nicer here. More genuine interaction, less quippy one liners or insults.

Almost any thread i opened within the first few posts someone already said what i would have said, so i would just scroll until i found my confirmation bias, updoot and move on. i wonder if lemmy will get so massive that the problem comes here.

I think that as a result of the size of reddit, it was unlikely to have engagement when you commented, and it was common to get unkind engagement if it did happen. It’s nice to have a fresh start, but since there’s less of us, it is also a much more intimate experience.

Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise

I'm trying to. I'm so used to lurking on Reddit that I forget to actually post here. Working on it, though.

I was mostly a lurker on Reddit, but the smaller community on Lemmy has made it so others actually see my comments. On Reddit they would just get lost in the thousands of other comments.

There are definite upsides to having a smaller community.

Although it’s only been a couple of days, I feel more connected here. You don’t have conversations on Reddit anymore unless you’re a in a small subreddit. If you don’t comment on a Reddit post within the first hour, no one sees it. It’s not about karma, it’s about engagement and community.

I've posted 4 threads on Kbin which is, to my knowledge, more than I had posted on Reddit. So, yes indeed! The difference here is pretty much that you do not need to post at a specific time of the day to get any exposure at all in my experience.

Same with me. I was a lurker on reddit and never really felt the need to contribute, but with Lemmy I really want the place to grow and it needs content to do that.

I post way more than I ever did on reddit

Well I'm just new here. I posted a lot on Reddit. But I have to say, I'm running across some new forums (or whatever they're called here) at least one or two a day with hugely interesting discussion. Subscribe subscribe subscribe...I thought my Reddit interest list was pretty solid.

No, I still remain a lousy human

Definitely I am more willing to post and comment, since reddit fail down. :)

I am exactly the same. I have posted here more times than I did on Reddit in total.

There is just something ‘nice’ about being here. I love that there are region/area specific sites you can join and go from there. I have joined the UK specific Feddi.uk and have found a lot to enjoy.

Let’s all help make this the place to be going forwards.

I posted a fair amount on Reddit, this place seems fun.

Finding it way easier to engage and comment. Don't have to wade through thousands of shit comments on Lemmy. Loving it!

I'm for sure posting more in the communities that I really like and those that I want to see succeed.

I figure that the more we all interact, within reason, the more everything will grow.

I’m trying to find the most popular communities so I can figure out what websites blogs I can post and generate content like I was used to when browsing subreddits

As someone who experienced the digg migration, this is the magical place Reddit once was

One of us, one of us!

A bit, yeah. Joining Lemmy got me to finally write up a technical idea I'd been intending to post for the last year or so. Figured it'd be a good way to help seed one of the programming communities with some content.

Like other commenters have said: gotta help the community grow, and it won't grow if there's nothing interesting for people to read.

Definitely posting more, i feel like on reddit it could too easily get a bit aggressive sometimes whereas, whilst people are disagreeing in comments on lemmy, it is a nicer tone. Less intimidating.

That and the volume of messages (lower) makes it feel less intimidating for me.

It's actually the other way around here... on reddit, i often found silly arguments I'd end up getting involved in and it'd end up taking so much of my time with stupid stressful bickering. Here, i mostly see sensible discussion, and any points i want to make are already being thoughtfully discussed, so there's no need for me to wade in.

Same here! It helps that there's a lot less negativity here overall, similar to the earlier days of Reddit.

Because it's new and everyone is still enjoying the "Lemmy good, Plebbit bad" mentality/circlejerk out of the current events we are having.

Well yeah I'm currently posting all oc things i made and posted on Reddit to contribute to Lenny so that people are encouraged to join

And i also got a few gigabytes of content I could repost, too.

Have not made a post yet (busy with school and work) but I definitely comment more. Feels so much like web 1.0 forums with a splash of 2.0.

We're surely in the golden age of Lemmy where the moderators are numerous and engaged enough to keep up with the bots, spammers, and hate mongers. It makes it a pleasant place to be, even if it seems to be overflowing with beans at the moment.

This is my first Lemmy post!

Part of it is probably also that, because it's new, there's none of that stupid reddit insider culture. Like not being allowed to do this or that or say this or that without being crucified in the comments.

Ah now that I finally figured out how to comment maybe I can join this trend

Much more so! Reddit just felt so vast it all just felt so damn futile haha

I havent posted as much here, yet... but I love Lemmy like I love mastodon. I feel like I can have real conversations with real people-- which is something that has been severely lacking on the internet for years.

I commented on reddit a lot, many times a day for many years. After the latest bullshit I had no qualms about dropping it like a hot potato. Bye bye, not going back. The future of social media is decentralized.

I love posting here! It, like you said, has a much nicer and kinder vibe here 💕

Yup, mostly lurker to poster

I barely interacted in Reddit. But communities here makes me want to participate.

I comment more but post little. But I'm also on vacation so maybe I'll post more when I'm back home

Nope, since I left reddit I spend less time mindlessly looking at my phone. But I do enjoy lemmy in healthy doses.

I got banned for ‘ban evading’, so I’m glad to post again.

I had 2 accounts (one for school/comp Sci, one for everything else) I insulted a mod in a larger sub and got banned on account A. Forgot I was banned from it and commented on the sub it with account B. This was around winter/spring when they were testing new ban tools and got full ban on current/new accounts I make so I’ve been loving Lemmy so far.

Already posted several comments. In my 10 years of reddit, I posted perhaps 10 times. So im way above my average on lemmy until now. I try to be more active to attract more lemmings.

Seems like there's more reason to participate here. I may end up posting more, but several of my posts returned in error. Server issues, I assume, but frustrating when I'd have to rewrite everything.

For sure not just you. I noticed my first day too - especially on SDF, which is a much smaller instance. Somehow it feels more like being at a small party compared to being on a crowded subway.

Smaller communities, more intimate experiences, and overall, the people you'd see here are most likely who won't accept or allow what Reddit now stands for.

Definitely, don't feel nearly as self conscious about posting with less activity

The opposite way for me.

I'm going to make an active effort to post stuff here, I used to just be a commenter on Reddit, time to branch out and try interacting with this place more. Should be fun.

this place is just way nicer than reddit, don't see as many arguments over nothing here

For sure, similar to what others expressed to help with engagement/activity. The centralized for-profit platforms hold way too much power over my infotainment appetite.

Yeah there was no real contributions worthwhile on Reddit on main subs. I was in a few smaller subs that would chat daily but nothing big.

I'm hoping to get more active as the platforms stabalize and I learn how everything works.

I'm pretty confident that things are going to take off soon! Loving the conversion on this platform so far, also enjoying the randomness.

It will be nice to have some more definition and focus for some topics (this is also probably me just being a noob at this) but I'm not really in a rush to get there as the information is available elsewhere, but the current atmosphere with Lemmy feels very unique and special

I'm trying to be a more avid poster but the gateway errors are making it difficult.

I've become a more avid lurker compared to a infrequent lurker on reddit

Yeah I started posting here too

I'm having trouble because a lot of my usual interests haven't really made it here yet, and I don't have the time to be responsible for starting any communities

Just created this account, let's see.

I am defenitely more active here when posting, but, looking at my reddit-account it becomes clear I was an active commenter before I left.

I wouldn't say that I'm any more or less active a poster on Lemmy versus Reddit. If the community has a topic I'm interested in and engaging content, I will post and reply.

Oh man tell me about it. I have been commenting on posts that I find interesting all the time here. In Reddit, I was a lurker with maybe a few uploads and upvote/downvote per year. There’s something about lemmy, I guess it’s the potential to be a true community that excites me

I definitely did. A lot of the communities I'm interested in are even smaller here, so I can actually post without just falling off the 'new' feed. Plus I've been commenting more too, and it seems like I'm not the only one. Got some local restaurant recommendations lol

Absolutely, this feels less intimidating in a way. I've probably commented more here at the fediverse over the last few weeks then my whole time at Reddit

Yep, this site has really chill vibes and it encourages posting

It's a bit ironic that I've seen this exact same post about three times already. Apparently you're the only one posting stuff.
Or maybe I don't know how Lemmy works.

Absolutely. It's too easy to get lost in large communities. Smaller communities let you get heard.

I’ve always been a comment contributor. I just do it here instead of that old alien site. Also wiped my stuff over there.

I literally haven't posted anything on reddit since the blackout. All of my posting has been in the fediverse...

I'm doing my part!

Definitely, but I also maintain my own Lemmy instance and moderate ![email protected]. I also want Lemmy to succeed, so I am more inclined to engage than lurk, because the more activity, the more appealing Lemmy will look for newcomers, resulting in even more activity!

Absolutely

No karma (on Kbin it's hidden inside the profile page, so same deal), healthier interactions, mods seem to have less tolerance to bullshit, and smaller userbase on instances in comparison with Reddit's huge userbase. It's a win-win.

I would have commented 4 times in last many years on reddit. On Lemmy (across instances) I have already posted over 40 in the last few weeks.

Same Literally never posted on Reddit in my decade of lurking. Lemmy is more welcoming and 'charming' IMO

I don't, tbh I'm still trying to get a feel for the liftoff app and it just doesn't feel as easy as boost and sometimes it's kinda buggy. I also don't know what to post

I'm trying to support the change. I joined 6/11, I stopped visiting the other site the same time.

I created a community that didn't exist yet here (in the fediverse) and am trying to post /comment more then I would normally. I wasn't a lurker over there but I am more engaged here.

Long live the new(ish) fediverse :)

Edit: I also removed my content and deleted my 12yo account on 7/1

Ooh I'm tryin

Posting links or content? Not so much but I’ve definitely commented a lot more.

Definitely true at the moment as I'm trying to understand how this all works and where I want to be within it! I'll have to see if I go back to my lurking ways after the curiosity has died down, but so far I kinda like being able to pick communities not just for what they have, but also what the vibes are. I always hated negative stuff in r/gaming and other game subreddits, but I loved r/lowsodiumcyberpunk. I think beehaws gaming community seems so cool because of their emphasis on be(e)ing nice.

Gotta involve more :D make this place what reddit could never become.

Somewhat because I’m hoping to help build the community we want!

Yes. I want to contribute to Lenny’s success if I can 😀

Just joined lemmy last night. (Now it's morning where I am from). Already commented 3-4 times. On reddit I used to comment once probably in a couple of weeks. It's probably because it's something very new and interesting. Also I am finding that people around seem nicer in a way maybe?

Yeah, definitely, idk I even started a community in ![email protected] and created a user script to change all links on all websites to one's home instance. Definitely want this to succeed.

Definitely commenting and upvoting more. Didn't even think about it until I saw your post!

I've always been a lurker and probably always will be. But until there's enough content to be lurked we all should do our part in creating the content and letting this whole site grow.

Me too. We're still the early days so I feel the "responsibility" to make the communities more lively. It's not much but at least I know I'm contributing something.

I'M DOING MY PART!

Honestly, I even set up my own instance, feels much more relevant.

Same here, like early last decade.

Now that you mention it, yes and I'm enjoying the posts more.

I’m a more avid commenter but haven’t done a lot of posting yet. I also have two accounts for different instances and actually use them both unlike on Reddit where I had two and never used the alt.

I’m definitely doing better but nothing crazy like multiple times a day😳 good on you for providing content

I'm a much avid poster now, that's for sure.

Yeah, my reddit comment numbers had already been significantly declining by the time all this API stuff came around, even getting as low as a few a month

Mostly active on my own instance (Feddit.nl) with posts and comments.

I never even had an account on reddit but on lemmy i post shit ?

Yeah my Reddit account had maybe 5 posts in 13 years.

Beat that on day 1 of Lemmy!

I'm posting some things that I would've normally just googled to do my part.

Is anybody having some weird language not allowed glitch?

its been the exact opposite for me lmao

I'm not posting more... but I'm not posting less, either. Which means the discussions here - despite the smaller population, less stable servers & apps, and less curated communities - is just as engaging as what reddit had to offer at its "peak."

I posted a little on Reddit, but did a lot of replying to posts / comments in communities that I am interested in.

I assume that Lemmy will be the same.

Yep!

yes ~ me too!

definitely find smaller sites like lemmy easier to post on since its much easier to repeat yourself on reddit and perhaps more modded so i refrain from saying a lot of stuff?

Definitely. I hardly even looked at Reddit for like 3 years. I feel comfortable and somewhat eager to talk here on Lemmy. The people are so much nicer, I’m not anxious about some entitled prick fighting with me about opinions.

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Nah, but I'm definitely a more avid commenter!

That may or may not be a good thing.

no seriously it's so much more engaging and chill than Reddit , you don't have to deal with karma whores etc etc... Love it here

I was banned from reddit for averting a ban so that's my engagement, before that I would post often on Reddit.

If anyone is curious why I was banned I argued in some conservative subreddit and was muted by a shitty mod who I called a bad name and that was enough to be banned, getting busted on a different account resulted in a heavier ban.

So fuck Reddit

Same! I've posted more this week than I have in the last 10 years on Reddit. I feel like I can actually join a real discussion with real people here. Posts aren't filled with 500 bot comments 5 minutes after being posted and my comments aren't auto-removed because I don't meet some random requirement for posting in that sub or not having enough karma or whatever.

I also signed up on a few different instances while checking things out and I've kinda created different themes for myself. It's been helping me keep track of discussions better having all my politics discussions on one instance, local and sports stuff in another, and general scrolling/random in another.

@SoLowChoLowRider I agree i was a forever lurker but now i actually want to try and post and interact.

Nah, I've actually posted less on lemmy so far

Anger and spite, like what other have mentioned, but also, it's always nice to be part of a growing community.

You feel like you're actually contributing rather than just being a statistic.

I didn't become an avid poster until I started using wefwef.app - it's a great implementation and I use it even on my desktop (in a mobile-sized window).

I honestly find I'm doing it less. Maybe I just have to find the right communities.

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Yup. Comments too.

I just don't want to be the annoying little siblings to any of the old-school lemmings. Or, accidentally partake in overloading any instances that are being hosted via donations or personal hardware.

It’s just you

Just you. I comment the same amount I always have, omaybe slightly less.

Yea, I am about to write more here than on reddit in the last months.

Me too!

I was on reddit for almost 15 years and i mostly just commented. I posted maybe 5 or 6 times at most. Been on lemmy for 2 days and im already at 3 (shitposts).

Posting once or twice a day means you're posting (on average) 273x as much as you would on Reddit. That's a huge difference! 273x more posting would mean 273x more posts from people like you. (Of course, this is pretty optimistic).

I've been trying to kickstart four communities because apparently I'm a masochist, but I've posted more in the last month than I did in the last 10 years on reddit. It reminds me a lot of my first couple of years on reddit (circa 2010/2011) and then my posting died off because you'd either get drowned out by the noise (hundreds or thousands of comments) or ignored in favour of a one liner joke.

I've seen a lot of people comparing Lemmy to early reddit, and I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel like there's one important distinction between the two. Even early reddit was driven by karma. There just wasn't as much people >10 years ago. I find the lack of karma on Lemmy refreshing. How it's gone back to the old forum way of just counting the number of posts is fantastic. It's a weird habit to break out of though because part of me still wants to go "I got no upvotes, time to delete" or "I'm getting downvotes, better delete my post".

I've come to start being more active too. I'm still trying to learn the ropes on posting, image sizes, etc. So far so good. Thank you Lemmy for getting me out of my (lurker) shell. I was active on the big R, but not as active as I am turning out to be on this platform.

It's more the opposite for me.

Between my usual communities being less active, and the technical issues (bugs, outages, or software annoyances), I've found that I've been using it less.

To be fair though, I've also been dropping down my Reddit and other social media use, so it could just be a case of going on a social media diet after my usual ones have become more user-hostile.

I didn't even have a reddit account the first 2 or so years I 'joined'. Then 11 years of an account it perhaps averaged 1 or 2 post a month

Definitely more prolific thus far considering all the communities I've found on Lemmy so far are for hobbies and interests, and not just the slew of assorted cat pic subreddits I was subscribed to on Reddit. I'm sure the latter will come in time though.