No Stupid Questions

Less people = less jerks = less fear when reading replies.

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.

lemmy made me feels like a little kid with new toy and i want to see this grows

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.

This is my first comment on Lemmy! I like the smaller community. It seems more welcoming.

You have to add kindling to build the fire, and thats why I try not to only lurk here.

Maybe it's because in Lemmy you're not gonna be "late" compared to in Reddit

Definitely. For one, lemmy is something I'd actually want to support, whereas I've always been ambivalent to reddit. But also, the user base on lemmy right now is probably closer to my interests than average.

I'm still deciding if I'll become a more active poster. I'd like to see this place grow.

This place reminds me of old school Reddit, before they started trying to turn it into a traditional social media platform. I love it!

I had a Reddit account ~10y ago. I was only a lurker in the days before the exodus. This feels like a real community.

Frist psot! /s

I'm very surprised by how much more I'm commenting, and I've even made a few posts!

I guess it comes with the feeling of exploring and establishing a new platform. Having this shared feeling towards reddit unites is, and this new platform gives us a new home.

I love that a service that isn't making a buck off of us gets levels of engagement that for-profit social networks would kill for.

This is happening because:

• Novelty, because new is fun. This will go down over time.
• The most passionate users are more likely to be early adopters. More casual users are coming.
• Smaller network means your content is less likely to be covered before. This factor will go down over time.
• Fediverse encourages multiple related communities, which means your specific contributions are more likely to be seen by other users.
• Lack of bots/astroturfing leads to more positive interactions. Bots will likely increase over time.

Therefore, I expect engagement will go down over time, but I am hopeful it will reach a higher point of stability because the fediverse design seems better at getting more varied content seen by its users, and it makes it harder for a small group of people or posts to dominate the discussion space.

PS: Anybody know how to add a space after the last bullet in a list?

I'm posting, but I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't think I 'get' Lemmy. Do all the dozens of instances have their own versions of communities and conversations? What's the connection? 🤷

Yes and no.

When I'm at my PC, yes I did become more active.

On mobile, I'm waiting for a better app like Relay and Sync to finally make Lemmy usable. Jerboa is barely-functional even with the latest update which finally added UI improvements, at the cost of making the app unusable with instances running on older versions of Lemmy and a slew of other glitches that make certain tabs unviewable.

I like to say things on the internet

I became more active here because I don't feel like I'm contributing to a corporation. This is an open source software run by people who are just doing it because they like doing it.

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.

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.

It could be the "shiny new thing" syndrome, the majority of people here (me included) might be just riding the "high" of joining in. Gotta wait and see how we'll be in 3+ months

I find myself more willing to comment/participate now. I'm not sure if it's because I feel that I am getting in from the "beginning" or if it's just because the community feels more "real", but there is definitely a difference from Reddit.

I feel the need to contribute so the community continues to thrive.

https://www.reactiongifs.us/im-doing-my-part-starship-troopers/

Yep. Haven't been so active on Reddit. It feels kinda great.

Been on the same boat, as for me been lurking for quite sometime mainly because too lazy to login and felt not worth to post/comment. I think the main difference here now is we felt obligated to post/comment because we want lemmy to succeed. Simply speaking I think our post/comment here value more than in reddit which will probably get buried down the thread.

I’m more of a lurker as well, but I want lemmy to be successful so I’m trying to learn to be more active

It's nice because I always wondered what it was like being one of the early redditors (we've all seen those "when everything was better back in my days" comments), and it's as if I got chance at a magic Internet Reset button. Feeling that excitement that first got me into reddit, as I'm browsing and learning about the fediverse. Love it.

Trying. Lemmy needs content and commenters are a big part of Reddit.