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Agreed. Maybe it's because aside from such a welcoming community, a lot of us shared this collective experience coming from Reddit. It oddly feels at home here.

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.

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

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

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.

Was a lurker on most subreddits, a lot of things I wanted to comment likely had been said so I would just upvote them. Whilst right now (still getting my head round the instances), I feel more inclined to comment when there are low comment volumes.

Part of it is probably also that, because it's new, there's none of that stupid reddit insider culture. Like not being allowed to do this or that or say this or that without being crucified in the comments.

I don't, tbh I'm still trying to get a feel for the liftoff app and it just doesn't feel as easy as boost and sometimes it's kinda buggy. I also don't know what to post

Lenmy feels very new to me and I'm glad to be away from the echo chamber that's Reddit. No more "who's cutting onions", "this is the way" and "sauce?". I'm done with it. Just done. Let's see what Lemmy had to offer. :)

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.

Yup, mostly lurker to poster

Same here! It helps that there's a lot less negativity here overall, similar to the earlier days of Reddit.

Ah now that I finally figured out how to comment maybe I can join this trend

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

The interactions feel more authentic here. Sometimes I would read a single comment chain where multiple people were talking about separate subjects and somehow still having a conversation. It made my head hurt.

Yes I’ve definitely posted more here than Reddit. The only thing that keeps me from posting more is performance issues. There have been a few times when I wrote a response but the post button just spins and eventually I give up.

I am exactly the same. I have posted here more times than I did on Reddit in total.

There is just something ‘nice’ about being here. I love that there are region/area specific sites you can join and go from there. I have joined the UK specific Feddi.uk and have found a lot to enjoy.

Let’s all help make this the place to be going forwards.

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.

Because it's new and everyone is still enjoying the "Lemmy good, Plebbit bad" mentality/circlejerk out of the current events we are having.

I'm for sure posting more in the communities that I really like and those that I want to see succeed.

I figure that the more we all interact, within reason, the more everything will grow.

I'm trying to. I'm so used to lurking on Reddit that I forget to actually post here. Working on it, though.

I havent posted as much here, yet... but I love Lemmy like I love mastodon. I feel like I can have real conversations with real people-- which is something that has been severely lacking on the internet for years.

No, I still remain a lousy human

I posted a fair amount on Reddit, this place seems fun.

As someone who experienced the digg migration, this is the magical place Reddit once was

I was mostly a lurker on Reddit, but the smaller community on Lemmy has made it so others actually see my comments. On Reddit they would just get lost in the thousands of other comments.

There are definite upsides to having a smaller community.

I’m trying to find the most popular communities so I can figure out what websites blogs I can post and generate content like I was used to when browsing subreddits

Although it’s only been a couple of days, I feel more connected here. You don’t have conversations on Reddit anymore unless you’re a in a small subreddit. If you don’t comment on a Reddit post within the first hour, no one sees it. It’s not about karma, it’s about engagement and community.