No Stupid Questions

I am more of a sarcastic commenter. Made a couple of posts though. However, I am upvoting a lot more stuff here as I never really upvoted posts on that other site that hates 3rd party stuff. I want to make sure this stuff actually works and people don’t go crawling back to that site that makes you Spez out.

I think actually feeling like you are being seen is a big factor for me. I felt buried in Reddit and so far this community just feels right. I really do hope it stays that way.

Definitely replying more instead of just lurking.

I’m thinking it’s a combination of

1. my perception that I can expect a reply if I comment
2. My curiosity about Lemmy
3. I find more post relatable (probably because I am learning alongside others about Lemmy)

Just doing my part to test the system. See what clicks, maybe it'll get better with my humble reply, one at a time

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 :)

Not shouting into a tornado helps a great deal.

I certainly have.

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 think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.

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

Posting and commenting on Lemmy feels a lot better, like a breath of fresh air. The last few years on Reddit got progressively more combative as certain types of people found their soap box there. Literally any comment could turn into a toxic political spitting match when the topic had nothing to do with politics. Probably a good mix of trolls and bots in there to incite the toxicity among the actual people who bought it. It’s amazing how many people actively defend Reddit’s ability to milk their user base and I think that says a lot about the community too.

Also always feels easier to get in on the ground floor of a new community before things are settled. Things get clique-y and stale after a long while. I think most people who have played an MMO (or other mostly online game) from launch versus playing an MMO after it’s been established a while can relate to that feeling.

I just hope we see more of the niche communities come over. A number of smaller communities decided to go to Discord only, which is a fine chat platform but that’s not a Reddit or forum replacement.

Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise

Here you can actually have your main page set to All without most of it being crap and can actually make a thought through post in a generic forum with a high likelihood that it gets engaged with in a positive way.

In Reddit you had to stick to browsing on Subscribed and the generic communities are swamped with karma-farming low-effort today's-consensus-following posts or posts trying to start flamewars.

Over there I pretty much only contributed in one or two highly specialized forums, here I participate in the general community.

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 didn't make posts all that often on reddit, but I definitely commented a fair amount. The problem I've got with lemmy right now is there's not as much discussion about stuff I'm interested in, so I'm mainly just looking at All instead of keeping to my subscribed communities.

Yeah, I've been posting a lot more on the websites I've switched to. Just want to help build the community, ya know?

I haven't posted but I've sure commented more times in the past 48 hours than I'd posted on reddit in probably the last year.

I'm loving the engagement I'm seeing. And the fact you're here means we have more in common that the vast majority of users I interacted with on reddit even when I did interact on reddit.

Yeah, definitely engaging way more than before. People are nicer here.

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.

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.

definitely, felling kinda social lately

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 absolutely did, at least for commenting. Partly because I want to create traffic for Lemmy, and partly because it feels just... Nicer here. More genuine interaction, less quippy one liners or insults.

I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.

Not yet, but in Reddit in recent years I mostly posted in niche little places for interests I didn't know there was a community for. I'm just hoping they will migrate or evolve over here because I found so many fun little hobbies because of the organic finding of new subs that Reddit seemed to foster.

And I have a 4mo old baby so that limits my time too. Every day though there is more and more, so I'm hoping I'll be a contributor to help it grow soon!