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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.
Less people = less jerks = less fear when reading replies.
This is my first comment on Lemmy! I like the smaller community. It seems more welcoming.
Maybe it's because in Lemmy you're not gonna be "late" compared to in Reddit
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.
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.
You have to add kindling to build the fire, and thats why I try not to only lurk here.
lemmy made me feels like a little kid with new toy and i want to see this grows
I'm still deciding if I'll become a more active poster. I'd like to see this place grow.
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
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.
This place reminds me of old school Reddit, before they started trying to turn it into a traditional social media platform. I love it!
Exactly. It's janky and doesn't always work. But it's not riddled with ads and echo chambers. What a breath of fresh air.
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 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:
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 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.
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.
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'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? 🤷
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.
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’m more of a lurker as well, but I want lemmy to be successful so I’m trying to learn to be more active
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.
Yep. Haven't been so active on Reddit. It feels kinda great.
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.