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Same here. Never could be bothered to make an account on Reddit in all my years of lurking there, but here I am.

Not any more than I have since first getting online in 1991. My entire reason for being on the Internet is to talk to other people. The memes and shitposts are just topics of discussion (or vehicles to make jokes about) to me.

A lot more. On other platforms with more users I always feel like I am just commenting into the void on a post with, idk 400 comments / replies. If it only has 0 to ~150 comments it feels less so.

Definitely comment more than I did on Reddit. I feel like if I comment on Reddit post that has been up for a couple hours, my comment will never get seen -- haven't seen that here

I use it less. I find the user-base a) very hostile to diverse opinions and experiences, b) very American-centric, and c) very leftwing and authoritarian.

I also have difficulty with discoverability. If I can’t find good communities, I can’t interact with them.

I try, but I naturally just want to lurk.

Honestly not much. I interacted a lot more with people on squabbles before that went to shit, but now I am a bit like the friendly pink blob that gets punched back into its box and swears to never come out again...

I interact a bit more just to support the community. I don't have much to say though, so that's all I can contribute 🤣

No, I interact more on Reddit. That's where the community conversation is. Ideally, it would be on Lemmy, but the difference between our ideal state and reality isn't bridged by wishing it to be the same. There'd need to be practical drivers that push the two into meeting and those drivers don't exist for Lemmy to reach kind of critical mass that would allow it to be a replacement for incumbent social media platforms.

Lemmy is for people who don't want those social platforms, or an "also-ran" platform that exists in parallel with them. The federated model which gives it survivability and freedom is also the reason that it won't have the broad appeal that would allow it to scale to incorporate input from all of society.

Many will rationalize that it's good to keep the rest of society out of Lemmy too, and I'm not getting into whether or not that's good, but either way it means that Lemmy will not have the broad adoption that makes the big social media platforms interesting to most people.

Yes. And you don’t get the snarky clownshoes responses that are probably just bots anyway.

Yes

I think yes but I would still call myself a lurker. I don't feel any pressure here to write a good comment.

Yeah, I feel more up for interacting on lemmy. Right now the vibe feels more sane and friendly than reddit and less uptight than mastodon, so maybe it's where I feel most comfortable.

I'm perma banned off reddit so the answer is yes I use lemmy more than reddit

About the same as my reddit activity before I left.

I don't have Instagram or Twitter and Facebook is just a glorified birthday reminder that I check every other week. You could probably count the number of my replies on public posts on Facebook on one hand.

I was quite active. But less and less as time goes on, sadly.

The content is drying up, the only really active communities are either tech or political, and my main interests either never left reddit or have a home elsewhere. The nail in the coffin for me will be when my instance dies, which is looking increasingly likely given that the admin is AWOL.

It's ok here, but it's too fragmented to be a full replacement for anything else.

Same thing happens to me.

Yea

Simply put, yes, I feel the same way.

I was definitely more active on Reddit, since it had the niche subs I wanted to discuss on. Lemmy has more "generic" content, since it doesn't have the user base to grow those niche communities.

Definitely more. A lurker too. Idk, I feel like I'm less afraid of being judged here.

Not really. Reddit was mostly fine, but I do at least feel that as there are fewer users on Lemmy it's easier to interact with others than just posting to the void.

I'm sleepy

Significantly more here. I never really liked Reddit, but a couple of my hobbies had communities there so I felt like I had to use it. I stayed away from anything that wasn't a niche personal interest and avoided the bigger subreddits and front page. Here I check out the front page frequently and am pretty generous with upvotes. It feels more like an investment in a community I want to be successful, and not like there's anything intrinsic to Lemmy that encourages it.

nah I comment about the same as I did on reddit