Yeah, but I'm still doing it on purpose to help the community grow. Somebody's gotta fill this place with content, and at the end of the day that's our job.

Normally I'm more of a commenter exclusively unless I need the services of a specific community. (video game question usually) But the Lemmy project has sent me digging for all the best youtube stuff I've seen in basically the past decade and then finding the community to shove it in.

Always felt unwelcome posting anything on reddit. Lemmy is new enough and filled with people who are nice enough to make feel like I wont get yelled at for commenting or posting.

Me and my people are powered by spite. I am going to try and be more active to help everything along so that reddit may die.

I think that as a result of the size of reddit, it was unlikely to have engagement when you commented, and it was common to get unkind engagement if it did happen. It’s nice to have a fresh start, but since there’s less of us, it is also a much more intimate experience.

What I like about Lemmy is, that you don't need to be one of the first comments to interact with people. On Reddit you would easily be buried somewhere at the bottom but most Lemmy posts I see have a really nice comment section. People are more likely to see your comment because the posts don't have hundreds of comments but there are still enough comments to start a conversation. I also love that I can have conversations stretched over days. I don't browse Lemmy often. I don't need to feel bad when I answer something a day later.

For me the main factor was replies slanted extremely mean on Reddit, whereas here it's only been polite conversation so far.

I'm perfectly willing to talk on a platform where I'm not getting death threats because I didn't like a videogame or whatever.

Yep! Since it is a smaller community, it feels less like screaming into the void. There's a good chance people will see a comment, even if it isn't made in the first hour or so.

For sure. Also more happy to upvote.

I'd comment lots on reddit, but rarely post. On Lemmy, I post! Even started a community!

I’ve always been a lurker, but I am trying to change. However, I don’t want to comment for the sake of just commenting as well.

I am but I'm very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.

The same happened here. More than 16 years on Reddit, and most of them as a not-very-active lurker. But here? I'm commenting every day.

As a FOSS guy, here I feel at home. From the community to the community.

It's like jump starting the engine. We need a spark

Definitely true for me. I was a pure lurker on Reddit. Now with Lemmy I try to engage a lot more. This place needs to come to life (and I feel like we're doing well, so far).

It's the novelty mostly, plus the fact that smaller communities are more fun to engage in. The same thing happened back on Voat.

Still a lurker tbh, aside from this comment

There's a common understanding that if you want more activity you need more activity to attract more people. Its a feedback loop that requires engagement. We lurkers know that the best way to help Lemmy grow to a critical mass is to temporarily become active for the sake of fucking over reddit.

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.

Yep, I feel more comfortable interacting here than on reddit, maybe it's because of the way less toxicity here.

Less people = less jerks = less fear when reading replies.

I’ve started commenting more often. I don’t really have much to share/talk about atm, but commenting here is great because there is a significantly reduced chance of someone replying to my comment just to try and 1-UP my ass.

I had the same lurker status back on reddit and definitely feel more inclined to post here. I think part of it is that for at least right now, individual comments really are setting up the success of lemmy so it feels good to be a part of that. Also, back on reddit those hardcore karma farmers dominated the threads. You had to find niche subreddits for comments to feel like they mattered...everything else was a "why bother" feeling.

You have to add kindling to build the fire, and thats why I try not to only lurk here.

Maybe it's because in Lemmy you're not gonna be "late" compared to in Reddit

This is my first comment on Lemmy! I like the smaller community. It seems more welcoming.

I used to be an avid participant on reddit, but haven't been for a long time. Now on Lemmy, I feel like participating again.

I think it's because it's on us to make this a great place now. Like, we can't just migrate and be silent. Or migrate and be assholes. We come here, we gotta participate positively, so I'm just doing my part.

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.

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.

Agreed. It’s a smaller community and easier to feel seen. I’ve probably already posted more here than I ever have on Reddit.

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

Oh yeah, same here. The community is just so much nicer here. :)

I’m in this boat. I just want to see lemmy succeed as a legit Reddit alternative.

Edit: WefWef has made me feel right at home, coming from the Apollo app. If you haven’t tried it, check it out! (https://wefwef.app)

It could be the "shiny new thing" syndrome, the majority of people here (me included) might be just riding the "high" of joining in. Gotta wait and see how we'll be in 3+ months

Yes all my comments are non relevant nonsense but I'm having fun.

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 feel the need to contribute so the community continues to thrive.

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