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.
With much smaller user base, one can actually get their posts/replies seen. Big difference.
I think I find myself participating more generally, now that I’m not necessarily frequenting specific subreddits
I think smaller communities are more inviting. For me it's a combination of wanting Lemmy to succeed, now that Reddit has begun it's downward spiral, and feeling more involved in communities. Though I have only just created my account, so only time will tell if I continue to be active.
Not really... yet. While I enjoy the memes and stuff I miss my smaller niche communities. While some subs the I was part of on reddit were created over here it seems that they are pretty dead and not even the creators/mods care about them. At the moment I don't have the time and energy to build something up from the ground... but I'm gonna stay and do my part!
Agreed. I've been posting way more frequently than in Reddit. Although admittedly, the more engaging topics are there. But we're barely a month into rexxit so the leaps this platform have made is impressive enough.
I rarely posted on Reddit, mostly because I would try to find a conversation already in progress instead of making my own post. Also, my posts rarely caught that much traction. I commented a lot more frequently, several times a week. I'm still fairly infrequent, mostly because in my early internet years I posted A LOT of cringe on Facebook/Myspace so I tend to be a little more measured in my internet footprint now.
Well this feels fresh and new, and also people want to experiment with this new platform. Pretty foreseeable.
Barely ever posted on Reddit, but have already outdone the total post count here. Haven't posted in a while though, mostly because of post-work brain melt
I’m still pretty new here, but I'm finding myself being more encouraged to post out of a feeling of community, like I belong more here, and desire to see this succeed. I think they kind of go hand in hand.
Ditto! I’m much less self conscious posting here, but have just been busy lately and not felt the energy for posting.
I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.
I certainly have.
I had Reddit for almost 10 years, yet in the <1 month that I've started using alternatives I've already posted/commented more. Not sure why it it feels more enjoyable engaging in discusison on the Reddit alternatives, but it's probably the lower user levels creating a nicer environment.
Just doing my part to test the system. See what clicks, maybe it'll get better with my humble reply, one at a time
lemmy made me feels like a little kid with new toy and i want to see this grows
Same here, every post feels like I'm making a small contribution to a platform which I really want to succeed.
Yeah, I found this to be true. I’m a lurker on reddit but a poster on lemmy. I am also actively brainstorming of more topics to create to help engagement in lemmy. I guess it’s because most of us want to see this to succeed and make it a viable competitor (and eventual replacement as the defacto front page of the internet) to reddit.
We all should. That's how we turn this platform successful over reddit. I've also noticed communities don't suck as much (for now), I could be wrong but I don't seem to see so much toxicity like I do on reddit nowadays
I really like the default active sorting keeping discussions in older threads alive for longer. The comment sorting also makes it easier to join discussions later on :)
Yeah, -- with Lemmy being a smaller community it's much more interactive than just commenting/posting and it being buried. last time I posted/commented on reddit was like around 3-4 years ago, so always been a lurker, going to change now with Lemmy.
Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.
yeah people have mentioned already I've seen as a reason. This is because of active/hot, where on reddit the top comment was top because it was highest voted, there's something different going on with sorting here.
Posting and commenting on Lemmy feels a lot better, like a breath of fresh air. The last few years on Reddit got progressively more combative as certain types of people found their soap box there. Literally any comment could turn into a toxic political spitting match when the topic had nothing to do with politics. Probably a good mix of trolls and bots in there to incite the toxicity among the actual people who bought it. It’s amazing how many people actively defend Reddit’s ability to milk their user base and I think that says a lot about the community too.
Also always feels easier to get in on the ground floor of a new community before things are settled. Things get clique-y and stale after a long while. I think most people who have played an MMO (or other mostly online game) from launch versus playing an MMO after it’s been established a while can relate to that feeling.
I just hope we see more of the niche communities come over. A number of smaller communities decided to go to Discord only, which is a fine chat platform but that’s not a Reddit or forum replacement.
I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.
Here you can actually have your main page set to All without most of it being crap and can actually make a thought through post in a generic forum with a high likelihood that it gets engaged with in a positive way.
In Reddit you had to stick to browsing on Subscribed and the generic communities are swamped with karma-farming low-effort today's-consensus-following posts or posts trying to start flamewars.
Over there I pretty much only contributed in one or two highly specialized forums, here I participate in the general community.
Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise
I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times
Try making an account on another server, maybe one of the smaller ones. My first was on lemmy.world, but on this new account on aussie.zone everything is loading much faster and I'm having no issues when it comes to commenting.
I feel bad when I see people have duplicate replies. Their duplicates get downvoted and I've seen people act demeaning as if the repeated comments were intentional. Meanwhile Lemmy and its apps are developing so bugs are going to happen.
I feel it's just that the avid posters have moved over first. Reddit's app is easier to deal with if all you do is scroll for a bit every now and then
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