Is it just me or did anyone else became a more avid poster since joining lemmy?
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.
Same here. I have a 9 year account on Reddit with only a few hundred posts and karma; by the time I found something worth posting about anything I posted would either drown out in the noise or essentially already be posted.
when it became about points instead of sharing people started gaming the system. we are posting to share, most others making it to any level of visibility are actively gaming the system.
i did some tests around it a few years back, getting notice with derivative gaming is easy but it just drowns out any real content. Only certain power users are usually allowed to the tops of pages, youll see a lot of the same names on the front page over and over.
clear sign there is no hope and discourse isint real anymore
Coming from someone with 2 million + link karma on Reddit, thanks. I burned myself out a while back. Just too busy now too. You're good people.
There's also the fact that on Reddit any interesting article was probably already posted:)
Yea, like 500 times too. I really like the feature on here that checks around for other places the same video might've been posted.
Like, I shared a vid to Video Essays on LotR theme composition, y'know, niche but not too-niche, and saw it had already been posted in basically every LotR sub. But cool, I posted it anyway cuz it wasn't in that sub yet and it was good content. But it got like two upvotes (probably me and the mod) and I didn't have to really wonder why--oversaturation. Nice feature, big fan of it.
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.
Oh yeah, same here. The community is just so much nicer here. :)
Still a lurker tbh, aside from this comment
We need you, too. As long as you're upvoting and downvoting, you're helping curate content.
Hey, I see you not lurking there 👀
Same. I see myself commenting a little more here (and posting my cat to various cat related instances), but mostly I’ll be reading and upvoting/downvoting.
lol semi-lurking here as well. good comment tho
Same here - but I really want to try to be more active. We‘ll see.
Agreed. It’s a smaller community and easier to feel seen. I’ve probably already posted more here than I ever have on Reddit.
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.
Posting is essential to get this community up and running so thanks!
this is me returning to form, as algorithms put me into a hole engagement on my posts went to crap, i stopped posting at this level over 10 years ago now.
having a proper forum again, Im posting like I used to, my google fu is once again being shared with the community.
whats interesting is reddits algo would lead you to believe what you are saying or posting has no value. i come here, and started just posting as normal, expecting nothing, surprised but also reminded of how algos work when i found normal levels of engagement again.
Algorithm driven social media stopped working for the interests of its users a long time ago.
It skews interactions into the parasocial. Massive groups looking at one thing, everyone scremaing, no-one except a few being heard.
Instead, social media should be many smaller groups looking at and discussing many different smaller things. Reddit still had some of that, if you went looking for it, places where everyone gets heard by at least someone.
It’s interesting to think about how algorithmic (and now AI) curation could work in favour of different goals but capitalism has imprinted its ethic into our new digital commons
What I like about Lemmy is, that you don't need to be one of the first comments to interact with people. On Reddit you would easily be buried somewhere at the bottom but most Lemmy posts I see have a really nice comment section. People are more likely to see your comment because the posts don't have hundreds of comments but there are still enough comments to start a conversation. I also love that I can have conversations stretched over days. I don't browse Lemmy often. I don't need to feel bad when I answer something a day later.
I'm doing my best to post more content.
Same here 😎
I've posted here in the past week or two more than I posted on Reddit in the past 11 years. I think it's the smaller more engaged community that encourages me to do it. Comments don't just get lost in a sea of jokes and grammar bots.
I feel exactly the same way. I even mod a community now, which is definitely not something I thought I would ever really get into on reddit. The community here is much more motivating, I feel like my contributions matter, and I don't need to be self conscious about if what I post is "good enough" or whatever.
Yes!
I guess it's because this is something you want to actively grow, as opposed to being a drop in the ocean back at Reddit
Yes! I couldn't agree more, before on reddit I didn't participate in any discussion, pretty much a lurker. I enjoy discussions a lot here! They are way better.
It's like jump starting the engine. We need a spark
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.
Definitely true for me. I was a pure lurker on Reddit. Now with Lemmy I try to engage a lot more. This place needs to come to life (and I feel like we're doing well, so far).
I've posted more but I'm still mostly a lurker. I have enjoyed reading the actual discussion here. The comments at reddit got to be so formulaic and the same across posts, it's refreshing to see actual thought and effort go into making comments.
Me! It just took a while to find my place here.
I’ve started commenting more often. I don’t really have much to share/talk about atm, but commenting here is great because there is a significantly reduced chance of someone replying to my comment just to try and 1-UP my ass.
I had the same lurker status back on reddit and definitely feel more inclined to post here. I think part of it is that for at least right now, individual comments really are setting up the success of lemmy so it feels good to be a part of that. Also, back on reddit those hardcore karma farmers dominated the threads. You had to find niche subreddits for comments to feel like they mattered...everything else was a "why bother" feeling.
Less people = less jerks = less fear when reading replies.
Idk i was that mid-level commenter, rare poster on Reddit. There were subs i commented a dozen or more times a day while others i subbed purely to read what others post.
What i like about Lemmy, which is what i liked about Mastodon, is that its not flooded with constant noise. A smaller community means far less garbage.
I'm pretty sure I already have more posts on Lemmy than my entire 10 years on Reddit 🤣
Can't really explain why but I'm way more active here. I think I just really want Lemmy to succeed.
Definitely. I'm much more likely to comment when I'm not prepared for 70% of the readers to interpret what I write the worst possible way on purpose lol.
It'll be a scale thing, though. For one, most instances have a human-manned review process. And for two, we have low enough users that communities don't homogenise into echo chambers as easily. This will change as any particular instance (or Lemmy's federated instances) gain more users.
lemmy made me feels like a little kid with new toy and i want to see this grows
I’m really confident Lemmy can be the future, so I’m being as active as possible while it’s small.
To everyone reading this: if you see a post with 0 comments, even a few days old, leave one. You could spark a conversation.
I'm feeling some of that early internet charm here. That might be part of why I'm a little more active. Still a lurker through and through.