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.
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.
You have to add kindling to build the fire, and thats why I try not to only lurk here.
It’s absolutely more work to not just lurk, but it’s way more fulfilling.
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?
I’m in this boat. I just want to see lemmy succeed as a legit Reddit alternative.
Edit: WefWef has made me feel right at home, coming from the Apollo app. If you haven’t tried it, check it out! (https://wefwef.app)
Yes all my comments are non relevant nonsense but I’m having fun.
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!
Look… We’re just here to boost numbers until the interesting people show up.
You should share the thing that you’re most terrified to share with others and i bet its not boring… for e.g… maybe you like to eat boogers… i am sure lots of people will be like… holy hell man… and they will be repulsed … but it won’t be boring. Then you could start a niche community of booger eaters and this community could share stories and recipes… and that sir or miss… is how you contribute instead of lurking.
Anyone want to creat a community about shameless farting in public or at the workplace? Or is this just me?
now thats what im talking about
Lmao i could see that becomming a popular community. I would love reading peoples funny farting in public stories
So do I! (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞
*Neither
I’m contributing!
But then I can’t reference this video.
You beautiful son of a bitch. I would be mad if it did not make me feel so at home.
You beautiful son of a bitch. I would be mad if it did not make me feel so at home.
You beautiful son of a bitch. I would be mad if it did not make me feel so at home.
Agreed. I’ve been posting way more frequently than in Reddit. Although admittedly, the more engaging topics are there. But we’re barely a month into rexxit so the leaps this platform have made is impressive enough.
I rarely posted on Reddit, mostly because I would try to find a conversation already in progress instead of making my own post. Also, my posts rarely caught that much traction. I commented a lot more frequently, several times a week. I’m still fairly infrequent, mostly because in my early internet years I posted A LOT of cringe on Facebook/Myspace so I tend to be a little more measured in my internet footprint now.
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.
lol semi-lurking here as well. good comment tho
Hey, I see you not lurking there 👀
I certainly have.
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.
Agreed. It’s a smaller community and easier to feel seen. I’ve probably already posted more here than I ever have on Reddit.
Yeah, I found this to be true. I’m a lurker on reddit but a poster on lemmy. I am also actively brainstorming of more topics to create to help engagement in lemmy. I guess it’s because most of us want to see this to succeed and make it a viable competitor (and eventual replacement as the defacto front page of the internet) to reddit.
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!
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.
