"this"

but really, I wonder how much of what we're feeling is the absence of repost bots, and serial karma farmers.

I'm actually more inclined to comment, and engage, here than I would on Reddit. Here I feel like I'm actually contributing verses in Reddit where I'm just one in a sea of thousands.

I've felt this so hard the past few days. I would often post on Reddit and never get noticed or find myself just wading through a sea of garbage. Here, it's a lot less noisy but the interactions I do have are noticeably more genuine and that feels great.

I am definitely more willing to participate in the community and comments when I know someone may actually see what I say

I think the difference is that each of us are contributing to a network instead of shouting into a void. Arguably, we are still shouting into a void, it just doesn't have the chatmovingsofastnoonewillseeimgay effect yet. There's an actual opportunity for engagement and discussion here though, for sure.

On Reddit I was not above petty arguments and down voting. Here I feel like things are more personal and I would rather discuss than simply consider the other person to not be worth engaging with. It's been very long since I've felt this way online. Hopefully lemmy does not outgrow this.

Actually being able to see my content on the page instead of being drowned in a sea of reposts, it feels better and makes me more motives to post instead of just lurking.

This is exactly how reddit felt in 2008 when I joined. The more things change, the more they stay the same. You can't get in the same river twice. This too shall pass. Etc etc

As much as there are, very valid, concerns about friction and effort of entry I believe that negative is part of what’s making this era so positive.

Those who have made it this far have taken a bit of an extra effort to get here. When we get here and find it clean and shiny we’re more inspired to “keep the house clean”.

As much legitimate value Reddit has its also, in many ways, a cesspool. It’s very easy for even those with the best intents to get caught up in it. I know I succumbed to behaviors I’m not proud of. Thus far I haven’t had to fight that temptation here, as I haven’t encountered any behavior that has tempted me towards that darker side.

We’re doing a good job. Keep up the good work and let’s do our best to set a good example for those who follow.

I feel the same way! I used to only lurk on reddit, I had an account for years and only made a couple of comments. On here I'm commenting and engaging more because I want to do my part to make the community grow. I really want to see this succeed because as a dev myself, seeing what reddit did to third party devs, to the dev of Apollo, I refuse to support that in any way, not with my data or with my time. I might make an attempt to piece together lemmy android app or see about contributing to Jerboa soon before my fall semester of school begins. I truly wish for this platform to grow

That might be true for the main threads at the other place but I spent most of my time in every place except the defaults, so I feel less of a difference. Even so, I know there's an uptick in quality just because there's a bit of friction getting into the fediverse and participating.

Agreed, it all feels a lot more human and natural. Though I will be glad when this Reddit thing calms down, at the minute we sound a bit like bitter angry ex-partners what with so many posts about it. It's to be expected I know, but once the community has let go of the past we can build a better future, I'm optimistic about that bit!

When I finally got to Mastodon as a Twitter replacement, I actually started to engage. I posted nothing on Twitter ever. Just had it for those moment when I was as sure that Donald trump couldn’t possibly have tweeted whatever it was I saw in a screenshot.

Now I want to actually talk and give a crap

It feels very refreshing to be here at Lemmy. It definitely feels like Reddit before the Digg war.

I feel more engaged and that I can share genuinely.

I'm glad you're feeling the same vibe here.

This new start feels like... really fresh, I like it. Willing to see it's development.

It has less bots, that's for sure.