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.
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.
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.
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.
the worst part is you’d almost always end commenting in a thread that gets deleted due to rules etc if you tried to get ahead of the curve and comment in a brand new post. I’m way more active here because I’m trying to help build the community.
Real non-sequitur, but I love the Marathon reference.
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
I think the poll numbers will act the same way to moderate what people say. I don’t think total karma was important, it’s seeing a community you’re in agree/disagree with you, and all the dopamine/negativity that comes from that.
the challenge is keeping that around the goal of posting engaging content rather than a race to the bottom for popularity points.
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.
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?
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
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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).
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.
For sure. Also more happy to upvote.
Welcome to Lemmy, where points don’t matter and there is no karma.
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.
I’ve always been a lurker, but I am trying to change. However, I don’t want to comment for the sake of just commenting as well.
I also never comment for the sake of commenting
Same
That is my stance as well
same
This
Also same
I have a similar philosophy, I tended to be a bit more active as a commentor than a poster but if I don’t have much to add to a thread then extra comments are just adding noise.
Same boat but really I think it depends on context. A serious discussion or someone looking for specific technical advice on something then I totally agree. Shitposts and silliness serve an important role though, anyone can wade in, it’s a useful ice breaker and for the lurky types who maybe need to build some confidence just posting anything (without being obnoxious) should be encouraged.
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.
There’s a common understanding that if you want more activity you need more activity to attract more people. Its a feedback loop that requires engagement. We lurkers know that the best way to help Lemmy grow to a critical mass is to temporarily become active for the sake of fucking over reddit.
This is pretty much me. But you never know, I may stay a non lurker!
What’s a cool community you’ve found here?
Talk to me non lurker!Umm… that would depend on your definition of “cool” I suppose. But I found a fountain pen community that I’m very glad exists here! !fountainpens@wayfarershaven.eu
Hell yeah, that is cool. Thanks!
Oh my, that is me 😂
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.
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.
Yeah, they’re actually the backbone of the community. We’re not the power that keeps the trolls at bay, they are.
Plus lemmy only counts users who have posted or commented as an active user. So making at least one comment is helpful to gain traction.
Oh I didn’t know that! Thanks for mentioning it, TIL. I’m glad so many others are also trying their best to be active like this, I’m really optimistic so far about the community building around here if folks keep this up.
Hey, I see you not lurking there 👀
lol semi-lurking here as well. good comment tho
Same here - but I really want to try to be more active. We‘ll see.
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.
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).
Reddit was getting pretty aggressive. I’m not really into that and I didn’t want that aggression pointed towards me.
