I started out looking for an exact replacement for Reddit (where I mostly lurk). Initially I thought the lack of content and traffic on Lemmy was a bad thing, but I now see it as early days of a community and lack of content means I have a chance to make a post or comment that is valued and gets engagement from other users. Reddit was so mature that anything I wanted to post was either already there, not welcome or buried under an ocean of other content/comments. If you use both you could even find good content on Reddit to crosspost on Lemmy.

It's quite nice being part of a small community now. Even just an up/down vote from you will be worth more here. It's great.

[–] urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to be a reddit lurker. I would go into a thread for a post and look for the thing I would have posted, and upvote it.

I can't do this on Lemmy, I actually have to write stuff now I guess, otherwise it doesn't show up. I don't like it.

Feels weird man.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

actually have to write stuff now I guess, otherwise it doesn’t show up

can you exoskeleton this one for me? I don't get it.

(autocorrect, just guess what that word was supposed to be)

[–] urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just a joke. I used to just read the comments in reddit threads and be satisfied with the conversations already being had. The subreddits I usually visited were busy enough that I had plenty to read. Rarely did I ever feel like logging in to add something. (I’m also unoriginal, so if I thought of a joke I’d go find it in the reddit thread and upvote it, ha).

Lemmy has less comments, less to read. But I also don’t pointlessly scroll forever, so I guess that’s probably good.