On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
Yeah, but I’m still doing it on purpose to help the community grow. Somebody’s gotta fill this place with content, and at the end of the day that’s our job.
Normally I’m more of a commenter exclusively unless I need the services of a specific community. (video game question usually) But the Lemmy project has sent me digging for all the best youtube stuff I’ve seen in basically the past decade and then finding the community to shove it in.
I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve posted here more lately than most of my reddit life.
I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve posted here more lately than most of my reddit life.
I am but I’m very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.
I’m the most boring human alive.
I’m trying. so. hard. to. Help!
Look… We’re just here to boost numbers until the interesting people show up.
Haha. We all feel the same way. Not afraid to share our thoughts, doubtful our thoughts have value.
Agreed. It’s a smaller community and easier to feel seen. I’ve probably already posted more here than I ever have on Reddit.
Always felt unwelcome posting anything on reddit. Lemmy is new enough and filled with people who are nice enough to make feel like I wont get yelled at for commenting or posting.
Pretty much how I feel. It’s like the worst of Reddit stayed behind and were the settlers setting off to build a new world.
I can yell at you if you miss the reddit experience. $10 tip required or exposure on a 10mil blog
Pretty much how I feel. It’s like the worst of Reddit stayed behind and were the settlers setting off to build a new world.
I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually’d to death. Sometimes I’d be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, “This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it.”
As a professional “Ackshually”-er, a lot of us don’t do it to demean others but just to genuinely spread the knowledge. There’s some asses who do it just to feel superior, sure, but don’t get demoralized because someone pointed out a minor mistake or inaccuracy: it’s just an opportunity to learn more stuff.
Well actually (;D), that can happen here… unfortunately.
But I get what you’re saying. Lemmy is still small enough that conversations are more about talking to another person rather than being a performative thing for everyone else in a large subreddit.
Yesterday someone demanded me to give dates on when Global Warming would start causing increases in food prices and so I was on wikipedia and checking sources… and why an I doing this shit?
So it still happens but it does seem less frequent here.
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Absolutely same sentiment here. There’s a couple of those dudes starting to pop up the last couple of days no matter how good your sources are, but certainly less convinced of their own intellectual superiority here so far. Maybe not having 200,000 hivemind karma has humbled them?
I used to be an avid participant on reddit, but haven’t been for a long time. Now on Lemmy, I feel like participating again.
I think it’s because it’s on us to make this a great place now. Like, we can’t just migrate and be silent. Or migrate and be assholes. We come here, we gotta participate positively, so I’m just doing my part.
Right? When the community has to work towards a goal together, everyone does a little better.
Same here, every post feels like I’m making a small contribution to a platform which I really want to succeed.
Exactly this.
Me and my people are powered by spite. I am going to try and be more active to help everything along so that reddit may die.
I, too, am fueled by anger and spite
It’s my favorite style of architecture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spite_fence
I am a lurker for life, probably, but I will try to be better for Lemmy, to help the site grow.
I mostly lurk too. Unless I’ve had a drink, which is now.
Same same
Same!
I’d comment lots on reddit, but rarely post. On Lemmy, I post! Even started a community!
thank you for doing your part, brave solder!
I think that as a result of the size of reddit, it was unlikely to have engagement when you commented, and it was common to get unkind engagement if it did happen. It’s nice to have a fresh start, but since there’s less of us, it is also a much more intimate experience.
Just dropping in here to tell you that we all love you. That is all 💕
🥹love you back!
community also feels more welcome
I’ve always been a lurker, but I am trying to change. However, I don’t want to comment for the sake of just commenting as well.
I have a similar philosophy, I tended to be a bit more active as a commentor than a poster but if I don’t have much to add to a thread then extra comments are just adding noise.
Same boat but really I think it depends on context. A serious discussion or someone looking for specific technical advice on something then I totally agree. Shitposts and silliness serve an important role though, anyone can wade in, it’s a useful ice breaker and for the lurky types who maybe need to build some confidence just posting anything (without being obnoxious) should be encouraged.
Yep, I feel more comfortable interacting here than on reddit, maybe it’s because of the way less toxicity here.
Same. It also doesn’t feel like I’m shouting into a void on here. It feels more like a community and less like a contest to get up votes.
The decision to avoid karma was a good thing in the long term, IMO.
The same happened here. More than 16 years on Reddit, and most of them as a not-very-active lurker. But here? I’m commenting every day.
As a FOSS guy, here I feel at home. From the community to the community.
