I didn't post on Reddit because I felt no desire to give free content to a business making money from me. Although lots of people really felt like it was a community, I didn't. I thought it was like a theme park - dressed up like a town in order to make you feel like you weren't inside a store. This seems like a real community, at least at the moment.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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A bit, yeah. Joining Lemmy got me to finally write up a technical idea I'd been intending to post for the last year or so. Figured it'd be a good way to help seed one of the programming communities with some content.
Like other commenters have said: gotta help the community grow, and it won't grow if there's nothing interesting for people to read.
Same with me. I was a lurker on reddit and never really felt the need to contribute, but with Lemmy I really want the place to grow and it needs content to do that.
Yup, mostly lurker to poster
Lenmy feels very new to me and I'm glad to be away from the echo chamber that's Reddit. No more "who's cutting onions", "this is the way" and "sauce?". I'm done with it. Just done. Let's see what Lemmy had to offer. :)
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I haven't been, unfortunately. I joined around a week ago and this is my first comment. It seems I'm just as much of a lurker here as I was on Reddit. I suppose this is as good a time as any to change that and try to become more active.
Same here! It helps that there's a lot less negativity here overall, similar to the earlier days of Reddit.
I am exactly the same. I have posted here more times than I did on Reddit in total.
There is just something ‘nice’ about being here. I love that there are region/area specific sites you can join and go from there. I have joined the UK specific Feddi.uk and have found a lot to enjoy.
Let’s all help make this the place to be going forwards.
I'm trying to. I'm so used to lurking on Reddit that I forget to actually post here. Working on it, though.
I posted a fair amount on Reddit, this place seems fun.
I post way more than I ever did on reddit
I’m trying to find the most popular communities so I can figure out what websites blogs I can post and generate content like I was used to when browsing subreddits
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Ooh I'm tryin
Just joined lemmy last night. (Now it's morning where I am from). Already commented 3-4 times. On reddit I used to comment once probably in a couple of weeks. It's probably because it's something very new and interesting. Also I am finding that people around seem nicer in a way maybe?
I’ve felt the same but on Bluesky the last few days, for the exact same reasons. Was on kbin and not really enjoying it, but coming to here and hoping it takes off! Excited to be wanting to interact and post versus just lurk because of toxic communities
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'm going to make an active effort to post stuff here, I used to just be a commenter on Reddit, time to branch out and try interacting with this place more. Should be fun.
Yes. I want to contribute to Lenny’s success if I can 😀
Just created this account, let's see.
I'm trying to support the change. I joined 6/11, I stopped visiting the other site the same time.
I created a community that didn't exist yet here (in the fediverse) and am trying to post /comment more then I would normally. I wasn't a lurker over there but I am more engaged here.
Long live the new(ish) fediverse :)
Edit: I also removed my content and deleted my 12yo account on 7/1
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.
Posting links or content? Not so much but I’ve definitely commented a lot more.
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!
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I definitely did. A lot of the communities I'm interested in are even smaller here, so I can actually post without just falling off the 'new' feed. Plus I've been commenting more too, and it seems like I'm not the only one. Got some local restaurant recommendations lol
No karma (on Kbin it's hidden inside the profile page, so same deal), healthier interactions, mods seem to have less tolerance to bullshit, and smaller userbase on instances in comparison with Reddit's huge userbase. It's a win-win.
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I comment more but post little. But I'm also on vacation so maybe I'll post more when I'm back home