microthoughts

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.

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.

1. The top 3 most upvoted comments aren't unfunny puns.
2. This feels mor elike a 'community' because there's fewer people. I don't feel like I'm screaming at a tornado.
3. More niche content. It's more fractured and I liked that about the early internet and early-reddit.
4. 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.
5. I can speak British English without my comment getting deleted. E.g. "Can I bum a fag mate"?

Lemmy feels like real people. Reddit was just overrun by bots and astroturfing. The more time I spend here the more I realize that.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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…please please please Apollo for this place. Clunky interface is my biggest impediment to using 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 be 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.

160+ posts already, I'm impressed. All of it in less than 2 weeks. Meanwhile on Reddit it was constantly walking on eggshells.

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.

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.

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.

There's more engagement here, you can comment late and have people talking with you.

I need to become more active and lurk less.

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 me, was on Reddit for over a decade and I already posted more here.

Definitely, I am sick of big tech CEO's greed.

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.

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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'm pretty sure I've commented more often (or at least in the ballpark) on here than in my whole time on Reddit

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.

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.

Thats true for me :)

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.

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.

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.