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This is my first comment on Lemmy! I like the smaller community. It seems more welcoming.
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.
Me! It just took a while to find my place here.
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.
Less people = less jerks = less fear when reading replies.
This place reminds me of old school Reddit, before they started trying to turn it into a traditional social media platform. I love it!
Exactly. It's janky and doesn't always work. But it's not riddled with ads and echo chambers. What a breath of fresh air.
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.
lemmy made me feels like a little kid with new toy and i want to see this grows
I’m really confident Lemmy can be the future, so I’m being as active as possible while it’s small.
To everyone reading this: if you see a post with 0 comments, even a few days old, leave one. You could spark a conversation.
I'm very surprised by how much more I'm commenting, and I've even made a few posts!
I guess it comes with the feeling of exploring and establishing a new platform. Having this shared feeling towards reddit unites is, and this new platform gives us a new home.
You have to add kindling to build the fire, and thats why I try not to only lurk here.
I'm feeling some of that early internet charm here. That might be part of why I'm a little more active. Still a lurker through and through.
Maybe it's because in Lemmy you're not gonna be "late" compared to in Reddit
I love that a service that isn't making a buck off of us gets levels of engagement that for-profit social networks would kill for.
This is happening because:
Therefore, I expect engagement will go down over time, but I am hopeful it will reach a higher point of stability because the fediverse design seems better at getting more varied content seen by its users, and it makes it harder for a small group of people or posts to dominate the discussion space.
PS: Anybody know how to add a space after the last bullet in a list?
I didn't post on Reddit because I felt no desire to give free content to a business making money from me. Although lots of people really felt like it was a community, I didn't. I thought it was like a theme park - dressed up like a town in order to make you feel like you weren't inside a store. This seems like a real community, at least at the moment.
Definitely. For one, lemmy is something I'd actually want to support, whereas I've always been ambivalent to reddit. But also, the user base on lemmy right now is probably closer to my interests than average.
I’m more of a lurker as well, but I want lemmy to be successful so I’m trying to learn to be more active
I became more active here because I don't feel like I'm contributing to a corporation. This is an open source software run by people who are just doing it because they like doing it.
I feel the need to contribute so the community continues to thrive.
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Yep. Haven't been so active on Reddit. It feels kinda great.
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
It's hard to get noticed on Reddit (unless you make a typo!)
Unless you're the first to post on a new topic that goes on to be popular, then no matter what you say you get read and gain karma. If you comment on something a few hours old, nobody ever reads it.
You're one voice in a city. Whereas here, we're a village. Less anonymous, friendlier, easier to get talking to your neighbour.
It's nice because I always wondered what it was like being one of the early redditors (we've all seen those "when everything was better back in my days" comments), and it's as if I got chance at a magic Internet Reset button. Feeling that excitement that first got me into reddit, as I'm browsing and learning about the fediverse. Love it.
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.
I'm posting, but I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't think I 'get' Lemmy. Do all the dozens of instances have their own versions of communities and conversations? What's the connection? 🤷
I'm still deciding if I'll become a more active poster. I'd like to see this place grow.
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!
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.