I feel like I'm contributing way more to Lemmy than I was on Reddit. I spent almost 15 years on that goddamn website and it felt like trying to piss in the ocean when posting or contributing to anything.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Yep, way more. Much to the detriment of my work.
Nope. This website has a very specific demographic and a ton of more “casual”, non-tech/internet topics see zero activity in here, for the simple reason that there’s virtually no interest or demand for them amongst the Fediverse users.
Deleting my Reddit account made me look for already stablished forums on certain topics tho.
Doesn't matter what the base user group is; the cats are always there!
If cats grew thumbs, we would be fucked, lemme tell ya.
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I used to be lot more active in my early days on r/ then as more it started to attract a crowd I started to be less active. Last few years I was just browsing and answering dms I received on my old threads for info.
Now that I am fediverse I feel myself at home. No more rage arguments and peaceful exchanges.
I would say, yes I am more active here. And I like feeling at home.
I like the fediverse. It reminds me of the old school Internet days - IRC, usenet, etc., before all the corporate tech bros muscled in. I'd prefer for it to stick, but I have some fears about it. I hope everything will be ok.
I do feel a little lost looking for my old Reddit communities, but I keep hoping we'll just cross paths again. For now, I'm just sitting back and enjoying the firehose.
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Feeling republican! I'm freaking dying!!
Yes, and I think I've been too enthusiastic posting content because I'm starting to see people shit on me for specific comments, however I deserve it since people are actually actively policing people here in kbin and Lemmy and it's refreshing to see people care about the communities that are being built here.
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Yes. I think it's because I'm a monthly supporter though. It seems to have a big psychological effect in that I want my money's worth, and I want Lemmy to succeed. So I comment and post quite a bit to help keep communities active.
Not sure if more or less, but I definitely love to check in during the day. feelslikehome.jpg
About the same amount, just a way to kill time and find out about topics I enjoy as well as something to make me laugh. So happy there’s finally an iOS app Memmy now!
There are actually way more, but you need testflight to use them.
There's one exception: wefwef.app which you can just add as a webapp.
I'm more active here because the UX is better.
I‘ve been trying to get Bassment more active, but I‘m not extensively investing hours. With a few comments every other day it’s much less of a problem.
Is that a community about bass guitars? I'll send a link to a couple of people.
Yes, that‘s correct! Much appreciated!
I am excited to see the community become more active as someone who periodically lurked on .ml for a few years. But also I'm much more active here because I just don't scroll r/ anymore unless I follow a link to a specific post. I'm all in here now, I feel like it's crossed the threshold to be sustainable and interesting to daily users even if it doesn't immediately take over.
Now that you mention it, I'm watching and scrolling Lemmy/Kbin since I wake up until I go to bed. I only enjoy some relax to cook, to eat and to play video games.
I’m actually just enjoying watching things here grow, come to life. I’m loving the energy of that. It’s so positive.
I tend to doomscroll more often…
Speaking of little republicans, r/tinytrumps can stay on reddit. It was funny at first but got very repetitive.
kind of hope the political discussions stay in their respective communities. I agreed with most or really almost all of reddit's hivemind, but was so tired of seeing some comparison to politics in every single subreddit, even some of my more niche ones.
Me too, but I doubt it. I'm a mod for u/news, and I'm already seeing a lot of useless discussions where two people get more and more angry with each other without changing anyone's opinion.
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Yep. Not as busy as r/, but that also means a lot less noise. Really enjoying seeing the old communities reappear in their original or new, fresh forms along with some crazy new stuff that we’ll just have to see if it sticks. Sure, this ‘verse has some frustrations like needing multiple accounts for instances and some minor browsing issues, but otherwise it’s great.
I think I do, but only because, after using reddit, I know, or at least I have enough knowledge how these kind of forums work and can "work off" my initial excitement productively.
shit, I remember when first saw reddit, and the default frontpage, I had absolutely zero idea what's going on. it was legit scary... had a bit of lerning curve, so most of the time I was just (trying to) lurk around.
I'm on less as there's less content of interest to me and I'm not a zealot. This is just another social media platform.