Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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i feel less desire to troll here. Just feels mean and horrible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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 ;)
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
Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise
I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.
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I don't know if it's just me but it reminds me of early Reddit, without all the Karma whoring
Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.
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
If anything, the opposite.
The algorithm knew me. Losing the algorithm is like losing a friend... the dickhead that always asked for money.
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Same, long-time reddit lurker here. I have posted more on Lemmy than I've posted on reddit in years.
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.
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Yeah, I've been posting a lot more on the websites I've switched to. Just want to help build the community, ya know?
I had Reddit for almost 10 years, yet in the <1 month that I've started using alternatives I've already posted/commented more. Not sure why it it feels more enjoyable engaging in discusison on the Reddit alternatives, but it's probably the lower user levels creating a nicer environment.