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 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.
I feel that… I just wish I had something interesting to post or say lol.
Oddly enough, I found “being interesting” to be a skill you sort of have to try to learn and pick up. It’s not like…something you’re born with. You kind of actively learn how to “do the thing”. I’ve been a wallflower most of my life, but slowly started to pick up tricks as I got older.
I found that asking other people about themselves usually kickstarts a conversation. People love to talk about themselves. Then once they reply, you see if you can find a thread or something in what they said to tug on to further the convo.
Being really into some topic or another as a hobby or profession also can give you something interesting, if you take something you know about that subject and put it in front of other people who are unfamiliar with the hobby.
Example from one of my random niche interests:
Did you guys know that honey bees aren’t male/female based on having XX or XY genes? Bees that are male come from unfertilized eggs, and have only half the chromosomes the female bees have. Their chromosomes are unpaired, whereas in other animals they’re paired. Basically, male bees have no father, they only have a mother.
Love it! That’s actually my main party trick, it’s either asking a whole ton of questions and if that doesn’t work I try to steer the conversation into the approximately 30 minutes of material I have on birds. I used to be a crazy nightmare in uber pools, I think
I find this insight into your feelings interesting!
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This is exactly how I feel, on Reddit it does not matter if I comment or engage at all, Reddit is what it is at this point. Here at Lemmy I feel way more compelled to post simply if only to keep the platform active. I hope others feel the same and can add more value to lemmy than I can.
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.
I can yell at you if you miss the reddit experience. $10 tip required or exposure on a 10mil blog
For 8.99 I’ll tell you why a mistake in your comment means you’re the dumbest person alive.
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 feel the same way
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.
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.
Same here, every post feels like I’m making a small contribution to a platform which I really want to succeed.
Exactly this.
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!
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.
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.
Why do you think there was allways such a dog pile comments wise on Reddit vs Lemmy?
Do you think it’s just due to the amount of users?
For me the main factor was replies slanted extremely mean on Reddit, whereas here it’s only been polite conversation so far.
I’m perfectly willing to talk on a platform where I’m not getting death threats because I didn’t like a videogame or whatever.
HEY FUCK YOU, MAN
(Just kidding, I’m glad you’re here and that I am also!)
Have you thought about wiping your comments? I had 1300 (more than I thought I would) and have no regrets.
I considered it but I enjoy looking at my old posts since it’s sorta nostalgic, plus I had like, 20 total over the 8 years I used reddit.
Not to that extent, but yea.
Maybe because posting here seems less like shouting into the void? I get replies to most of my posts and comments. Way more engagement.
Yep! Since it is a smaller community, it feels less like screaming into the void. There’s a good chance people will see a comment, even if it isn’t made in the first hour or so.
reddit had two styles of interaction: sort by new and get in on the comments early, or come late to the party and be a spectator
Towards the end it felt like the only things really left to engage with were the bots. Upvoting and downvoting felt pointless, as every other post felt like it had been submitted and/or written by a bot, and the comments were so flooded with bots advertising, trying to get you to click on a link, and reposting portions of other comments. Towards the end you’d also see so many posts that were clips that bots had ripped from other videos, only without any sound (even when it was obvious that the sound had been crucial in supplying context to the scene).
At least on Lemmy it doesn’t feel like it’s been flooded with that sort of drivel (just yet, anyway).
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I am a lurker for life, probably, but I will try to be better for Lemmy, to help the site grow.
True, I feel the same energy. I am way more connected to Lemmy than I ever was to reddit
I mostly lurk too. Unless I’ve had a drink, which is now.
Same same
Same!
For sure. Also more happy to upvote.
Welcome to Lemmy, where points don’t matter and there is no karma.
I hope there is never karma. It’s what led to all the bots and paid for accounts that absolutely flooded reddit.
Karma was a mistake.
Welcome to Lemmy, where points don’t matter and there is no karma.
Still a lurker tbh, aside from this comment
