I spent years on Apollo and never even made an account, would just infinite scroll at work. Made an account on Lemmy and already feel like I’m more engaged

Gotta help seed the content so newcomers have something to look at. I've been uploading game clips and the like to the relevant ~~subreddits~~ communities (wow, I really just did make this mistake without thinking and only went back to correct it minutes later; shows how used I am to the old place) to help build the initial content base.

That, and the place genuinely does seem just a bit friendlier than Reddit. That may change when the number of users gets bigger, but I'm at least enjoying it for now.

Not much yet but been lurking a fuck ton. It was a lot easier then I thought it was gonna be getting use to this. I didn't even had to do what I did when I first joined reddit! I had a damn Digg UI addon for Reddit for like 2 months til I settled on old.reddit.

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.

I certainly have.

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 :)

I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.

I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times

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.

i feel less desire to troll here. Just feels mean and horrible.

Was a lurker on most subreddits, a lot of things I wanted to comment likely had been said so I would just upvote them. Whilst right now (still getting my head round the instances), I feel more inclined to comment when there are low comment volumes.

I think actually feeling like you are being seen is a big factor for me. I felt buried in Reddit and so far this community just feels right. I really do hope it stays that way.

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.

In a way I feel kind of responsible to be more active to promote the community more. I want this to succeed and it won't without content, so I probably will end up being a lot more active than I used to be on reddit too

I have already written more comments here than I ever did on reddit. I want lemmy to succeed and it needs even us lurkers to do that. It ain't much--but I am commenting ;)

I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.

Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.

I don't know if it's just me but it reminds me of early Reddit, without all the Karma whoring

Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise

If anything, the opposite.

The algorithm knew me. Losing the algorithm is like losing a friend... the dickhead that always asked for money.

I just joined today and will always stay a lurker but I've mainly noticed a difference in the type of comment I feel prompted to make. On Reddit I mostly gave advice to other people, because you or any opinions were never going to get noticed anywhere else anyway (unless you were lucky, I guess), the community here right now is a lot more casual and so are my replies.

I think lemmy.world (or other lemmy instances you are ok of) is the place for me to learn how to communicate with others.

Before then, I never post and comment anything on Facebook and Twitter. Now I comment a lot here.

i feel like iam actually contributing to the community and helping to build this platform. in Reddit it doesn't feel like your making a difference

Reddit mods censored a lot of content both posts and comments. That was part of the reason reddit was not a positive experience and became a echo chamber. Lemmy appears to be more like the old internet where there were a diverse community of ideas and views.

Yeah, I've been posting a lot more on the websites I've switched to. Just want to help build the community, ya know?

Same, long-time reddit lurker here. I have posted more on Lemmy than I've posted on reddit in years.