No Stupid Questions

I would have commented 4 times in last many years on reddit. On Lemmy (across instances) I have already posted over 40 in the last few weeks.

I’ve always been a comment contributor. I just do it here instead of that old alien site. Also wiped my stuff over there.

I comment more but post little. But I'm also on vacation so maybe I'll post more when I'm back home

Ooh I'm tryin

Same Literally never posted on Reddit in my decade of lurking. Lemmy is more welcoming and 'charming' IMO

I'm trying to be a more avid poster but the gateway errors are making it difficult.

Definitely true at the moment as I'm trying to understand how this all works and where I want to be within it! I'll have to see if I go back to my lurking ways after the curiosity has died down, but so far I kinda like being able to pick communities not just for what they have, but also what the vibes are. I always hated negative stuff in r/gaming and other game subreddits, but I loved r/lowsodiumcyberpunk. I think beehaws gaming community seems so cool because of their emphasis on be(e)ing nice.

Definitely, but I also maintain my own Lemmy instance and moderate !guildwars@lemmy.wtf. I also want Lemmy to succeed, so I am more inclined to engage than lurk, because the more activity, the more appealing Lemmy will look for newcomers, resulting in even more activity!

Gotta involve more :D make this place what reddit could never become.

Yeah I started posting here too

Smaller communities, more intimate experiences, and overall, the people you'd see here are most likely who won't accept or allow what Reddit now stands for.

Yeah, definitely, idk I even started a community in !dota2@lemm.ee and created a user script to change all links on all websites to one's home instance. Definitely want this to succeed.

I've become a more avid lurker compared to a infrequent lurker on reddit

Me too. We're still the early days so I feel the "responsibility" to make the communities more lively. It's not much but at least I know I'm contributing something.

I'M DOING MY PART!

Definitely. I hardly even looked at Reddit for like 3 years. I feel comfortable and somewhat eager to talk here on Lemmy. The people are so much nicer, I’m not anxious about some entitled prick fighting with me about opinions.

Yeah, my reddit comment numbers had already been significantly declining by the time all this API stuff came around, even getting as low as a few a month

Anger and spite, like what other have mentioned, but also, it's always nice to be part of a growing community.

You feel like you're actually contributing rather than just being a statistic.

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Definitely commenting and upvoting more. Didn't even think about it until I saw your post!

I've been trying to kickstart four communities because apparently I'm a masochist, but I've posted more in the last month than I did in the last 10 years on reddit. It reminds me a lot of my first couple of years on reddit (circa 2010/2011) and then my posting died off because you'd either get drowned out by the noise (hundreds or thousands of comments) or ignored in favour of a one liner joke.

I've seen a lot of people comparing Lemmy to early reddit, and I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel like there's one important distinction between the two. Even early reddit was driven by karma. There just wasn't as much people >10 years ago. I find the lack of karma on Lemmy refreshing. How it's gone back to the old forum way of just counting the number of posts is fantastic. It's a weird habit to break out of though because part of me still wants to go "I got no upvotes, time to delete" or "I'm getting downvotes, better delete my post".

Nah, I've actually posted less on lemmy so far

It's a bit ironic that I've seen this exact same post about three times already. Apparently you're the only one posting stuff.
Or maybe I don't know how Lemmy works.

no seriously it's so much more engaging and chill than Reddit , you don't have to deal with karma whores etc etc... Love it here

I didn't become an avid poster until I started using wefwef.app - it's a great implementation and I use it even on my desktop (in a mobile-sized window).

I was banned from reddit for averting a ban so that's my engagement, before that I would post often on Reddit.

If anyone is curious why I was banned I argued in some conservative subreddit and was muted by a shitty mod who I called a bad name and that was enough to be banned, getting busted on a different account resulted in a heavier ban.

So fuck Reddit

Somewhat because I’m hoping to help build the community we want!

I'm having trouble because a lot of my usual interests haven't really made it here yet, and I don't have the time to be responsible for starting any communities

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Is anybody having some weird language not allowed glitch?

I'm posting some things that I would've normally just googled to do my part.

its been the exact opposite for me lmao