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Yes, I never felt like commenting when there were hundreds of previous comments. Here, with just a few comments, it feel like it an actual contribution, not a drop in the ocean. I also spend more time reading each comment.
And even if a post has many comments on here you still get interaction because they sort by "Hot" by default (at least on kbin)
I think this is a big part of it. On the other site you’d really have to be early on a popular post, otherwise there’d already be thousands of comments and it didn’t feel worth the effort.
Lemmy is growing very, very quickly but I still feel like there’s more interaction between actual humans here and not some stupid karma farming bots. I came over here before the Reddit civil war started and there’s been more and more content every day without it feeling contrived. I’m quite fond of Lemmy at this point.
Content felt like it exploded just over the past couple of days. The coverage of world news events has been excellent. Memes have homes. It has been nice.
The breath of fresh air has generally been maturity in a lot of posts. Reddit felt like junior high deduction skills most of the time. I don't expect it to last, but it makes me engage more.
It really has. The first week or so was a bit discouraging but Lemmy has exploded recently. I’m extremely pleased that I can get my world news and my poop jokes in one place again. I scrubbed my Reddit comments and deleted my account much like Cortés burned his ships.
Lemmy feels like real people. Reddit was just overrun by bots and astroturfing. The more time I spend here the more I realize that.
Regarding 2, it is sort of ridiculous how many comments some posts get on reddit. And you're really unlikely to get any interaction leaving a comment on a post that already has say, 12,000 comments, while meanwhile due to the way the site works, more and more people see the posts that are already at the top.
I definitely feel more inclined to comment. Especially since so many posts have so little comments. It feels like my comments are more worthwhile to write to add to the discussion.
Yeah same here, I'll revert to lurking when every post start to reach 500+ comments with more then half of the comments trying to pun.
It is a hard habit to break. I mostly lurked on reddit, a few comments here and there. Trying to engage and post a bit more than I would have previously.
Yes. 99% of the time I lurked because I felt like all my opinions were already voiced in other comments.
For some reason Lemmy feels easier to post on for me personally.
There's more engagement here, you can comment late and have people talking with you.
I think this is what it is for me. I usually just scrolled hot in r/all but by the time I saw posts the conversation had already ended
Very much yes. Now I can make relevant and helpful comments without 50 other people saying the same thing before I even saw the post. I feel like my contribution here matters.
I had a Reddit account for 10 years and never made a single post, but I actually made a post here so I'm definitely more active here. It'll probably end up being my only post as more users join Lemmy but I made the post primarily because I wanted more posts to hopefully encourage Lemmy growth.
I do post comments here more than reddit. Partly to help keep engagement up, but also because I haven't seen many shitheads trying to make me feel bad.
Ditto. I still do read Reddit because there are some subs there which had not significantly moved over (yet, hopefully), but I post and interact more on here.
Definitely me, was on Reddit for over a decade and I already posted more here.
Lemmy has made me realize that choosing communities (similar to subreddits) is important to me. I try not to search by /all and find information I am interested in. Having to join new communities again is not exactly a problem.
Yeah, I do kinda feel like I'm commenting more on posts that I wouldn't have commented on over at reddit. Not sure why, probably has at least something to do with tje fact that I want to contribute to this place. I think it's also that people on here do seem to be more laid back and less confrontational over things that don't call for a confrontation. I like it here.
I need to become more active and lurk less.
In Reddit, your words are a drop in the deluge of the masses. Here, every comment, or even a humble upvote can make a difference.
Absolutely.
Actually, I'm probably writing about the same number of replies. It's just that here I'm much more likely to actually post them.
On Reddit, I tended to write out replies, then visualize what was going to happen if I posted it - if I got any response at all, it was likely to just be a troll or a shill or a bot regurgitating some bit of emotive rhetoric or a tired meme. Then I'd just delete it instead of posting it.
Here, the only likely negative outcome is nothing at all. If somebody does respond, it's actually likely that it'll not only be a real person, but that they'll actually post real thoughts rather than just rhetoric and memes.
I had forgotten what that feels like.
I heard a quote once that said "The cost of living in a good community is community service." I've been using that as my drive to interact with posts more here.
I am averaging an unhealthy amount of comments per day, and I'm enjoying every moment.
I feel like I'm keeping a journal, only the book talks back to me in a thought provoking manner. You guys have been really great for me.
It's a lot easier to find conversations here. Vibes like reddit of 5-10 years ago. When communities get too big, the most popular gets pretty boring for people with niche tastes.
Yeah. Popular reddit posts from 4h or older...you're just shouting into the wind.
You still would get good conversations on smaller communities, but the popular subs it was mostly reading other people's witticisms that people would put on the post while it was in "new". Mostly those seemed to be karma whoring people who would try to get comment karma from saying something edgy or funny at the beginning of a post and then "benefit" when the post gets to r/all.
I'm trying to be more active here largely because more people want want to join a site that seems like it's mostly dead with only a handful of posting/commenting.
I'm not really much of a content creator, and I'm hoping we quickly get enough active users that I can fall back to mostly lurking and chiming in when I have something to add.
Mostly this. I definitely check it less than I did reddit, but when I do I try to engage more. That's probably partly because there's less comments. On reddit I read a lot of aith and bestofredditorupdates and relationship_advice. So there were lots of comments to read by the time I got there. This is more like reading r/new and having to create engagement rather than responding to one of the thousands of comments
Yeah, that's strange because Lemmy actually has less content than Reddit. I don't even lurk any subs I have subscribed, I just sort by new.
It's much better this way than Reddit for me, even though that.
Yeah. I always felt my comments or posts on Reddit would drown in the noise but Lemmy is still small and I want to contribute to its growth.
I genuinely had more meaningful interactions on lemmy so far than in my 2 years of using reddit.
The first time in years it feels actually fun to engage with people, rather than just doomscroll endless void of content
I plan on being more active on Lemmy - Reddit was mostly read-only for me for years, but the smaller community here feels like engaging wouldn't just be screaming into the void.
The social anxiety is much less as the crowds are smaller so posting feels like it's being heard. Feels like I'm actually a part of a conversation
Edit: I forget which account is my main though so my comments are displaced. Which is probably good
I find I'm having the opposite problem with social anxiety. I feel like I'll be seen here and it's making it difficult to comment. Though since I just made my account last night and this is my first comment, I guess I'm being active much sooner. I didn't leave a comment on reddit for months after making an account...
Yeah I'm sick of the sanitized sterile nature of corporate run social media. This platform has the ability to grow and change as the users want it to.
I actually used reddit with no account, you know, there was clients allowed us to use reddit wtih subscribing without account. But here, in lemmy, I have an account and am much more active.
I feel like I get the chance to see interesting posts here before they have 100+ comments much more frequently than reddit, which makes me more likely to comment here since it won’t just get washed away in the sea
Yes…please please please Apollo for this place. Clunky interface is my biggest impediment to using more.
Commenting here is more rewarding because you don’t stumble onto a popular thread only to see that it’s already got 3000 other comments and there’s no chance of anyone seeing yours.
For sure. I can’t remember the last time I actually posted or commented on reddit. I would do that thing where sometimes I’d even start to type a reply and then just trash it before posting. Here, I actually feel like contributing.
I have one subreddit (sports) whose user base is either not not aware of, or caring about, the current issues with Reddit. I don't see them migrating, so I'll still be checking in there.
Also have still been checking r/modcoord for the latest news on the protest from the correct side, but that's more of a current events type thing, and I'm more interested in it as far as it pertains to Lemmy's growth and the effects on that, than how it's impacting Reddit.
Outside of those couple of things, I've pretty much been spending my time here on Lemmy since I signed up... I'm very much enjoying the experience here, it feels much more like Reddit used to way back when, before it exploded in bots and astroturfing.
I was a strong user of Reddit for almost a decade, but I already feel at home here and don't have intentions of heavily using Reddit anymore.
I feel like there is more drive to interact because it's smaller, we want it to take off, and it feels like I am talking to real ppl and not a karma farming bot.
Yes, definitely. Between so many comments already replying what I was going to say and the high likelihood of being rudely corrected on anything I have to say, reddit is just less fun to interact with.
Over here, people are more likely to respectfully disagree, and it's less crowded, for now.
160+ posts already, I'm impressed. All of it in less than 2 weeks. Meanwhile on Reddit it was constantly walking on eggshells.
Definitely, I am sick of big tech CEO's greed.
Absolutely! For once in a long time I'm actually actively creating original content for Lemmy... whereas before, I just sort of accepted how it was.
Not yet, but that's all gonna change when my preferred app for Reddit presumably dies a week from today.