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Definitely replying more instead of just lurking.
I’m thinking it’s a combination of
Absolutely, I feel closer to the community here on lemmy.
I lurked reddit for more than a decade and maybe posted 5 times. I hit that my first day here I think. Not sure what the difference is... I guess the smaller user base makes me feel like I can actually engage in a conversation with someone rather than just have my post disappear into the thousands already on a post
I certainly have.
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've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?
I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times
I feel bad when I see people have duplicate replies. Their duplicates get downvoted and I've seen people act demeaning as if the repeated comments were intentional. Meanwhile Lemmy and its apps are developing so bugs are going to happen.
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.
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.
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.
yeah people have mentioned already I've seen as a reason. This is because of active/hot, where on reddit the top comment was top because it was highest voted, there's something different going on with sorting here.
If anything, the opposite.
The algorithm knew me. Losing the algorithm is like losing a friend... the dickhead that always asked for money.
Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.
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?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.
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 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.
I don't know if it's just me but it reminds me of early Reddit, without all the Karma whoring
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 ;)
Agreed. Maybe it's because aside from such a welcoming community, a lot of us shared this collective experience coming from Reddit. It oddly feels at home here.
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.
Yeah, I've been posting a lot more on the websites I've switched to. Just want to help build the community, ya know?
Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise