basically twitter -- post little microblogs, microthoughts about your day or life or the culture
Definitely, but I never really got into Reddit. Coincidently I had waited until just a couple months ago to try out Reddit and then Lemmy happened so no big loss for me.
Yes, a lot. Here, I have a lot of communities and try to create a lot of post here!
Yep, but i closed my reddit account a while ago. I feel like reddit karna makes conversations less thoughtful. Everyone wants to post a quick quip and get karma, making the conversation pretty useless.
I'm more active here than I ever was there, and that's saying something since I haven't posted much here yet. Just having people here that act like... people helps so much.
I've been more active on this site than I ever have been on reddit lol. At best I was lurking on reddit or search up the odd error that popped up on my PC.
Not yet. They're are some niche subs I go to that have no equivalents here.
I am, because I don't have to worry about a bot or some overzealous mod deleting everything I post because I didn't include the right kind of "flair" or some other nonsense.
@zephyr There's definitely a bias to the people more active who will comment here, but I feel I'm less active, which is a good thing, as Lemmy is less addictive.
In Reddit I lurked during five years until I felt confident enough to post again after bad experiences with my two first posts (in a stationery subreddit, nothing too complicated). And I only did it in Spanish subs because they did not fried you with negatives. The Karma thing.
Here I started to post two hours after creating my account.
I'm pretty sure I've commented more often (or at least in the ballpark) on here than in my whole time on Reddit
Same. I feel a bit pressure to post in the hopes Lemmy will grow…
Ya because theres less mass downvoting (tho i never got mass downvoted except once when i put an emoji on reddit) and less "ummm ackshully" people, usually people offer corrections in a more constructive way that stimulates conversation here. Also on Reddit esp. really big subreddits there'd just be comment threads of the same jokes over and over "and my axe! I also choose this guy's wife! Narrator: he did not" and I didnt really wanna participate in that lol
If we are not active this place will never take off so post some content! :D
I've been using Lemmy a lot but I'm not sure how much time I was spending on Reddit. I feel like I check it more, but maybe I just noticed more now because I took my reddit app off my phone
Absolutely, I hadn't posted to reddit for so long because it was pointless. Here feels different, at least for now.
Definitely. I am more of a lurker than a poster, though. Which is difficult because there is not a ton of content yet. I want to contribute of my own but find it a bit difficult.
I think there's research that's shown 100-150 people is a critical limit for a community to feel meaningful. It's why the subreddits with the smaller number of active posters did so much better.
I don't know? A little? Can't say for sure. Though for some rather niche subreddits, I haven't found alternatives yet. And there some game-specific subreddits that tie to some fairly niche games, there's no fediverse community for those that I've found yet.
Definitely, I've been busy but I'd love to make more posts when I have more time, especially once apps start getting better for it. I'm a big fan of connect, but you can't save images yet which is a bummer
edit: you can download things now
Mayby, but in my case is because here doesn't exist any kind of points(karma), more natural posting
Its enjoyable so far and I would, like everyone else here, like for this for work out.
Thats true for me :)
Yeah, like you said, it's wanting Lemmy to work and watching it grow. I think most people here so far are passionate about being here, and I love it.
I never did get around to starting a subreddit, but starting a community meant wanting to post something a couple times a day to keep content flowing while people discover it.
I think I comment a little more frequently than I did on Reddit. I'm positive that's a side effect of us having fewer users here, so there's less noise and fewer comments for you to get drowned out in.
Yes
The content is just not there yet for me, so I spend less time overall. But at the same time, I feel like the community is way better than what was on Reddit and even though I sometimes fall into the old Reddit comment behavior, I think overall this place is a lot more welcoming and open.
Definitely. Since I found out how to filter correctly and with other subreddits coming over- its been getting better and better. I don't want this to be another reddit, but having some content that made reddit fun isn't all that bad imo.
Right now, no. Soon, very much so.
Yeah definitely , I try to engage more to also push more content up 😁
I've had my reddit for a bit over a decade, mostly lurking, but commenting every so often. I'm in a pretty similar pattern on here, mostly lurking but commenting when I have something to positively contribute to a post, but these instances are still growing. We're still in the exponential side of the logistic curve, lots of new communities are being made, lots of curating to do as the instance grows and new communities keep popping up.