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Echoing what’s already been said here but just voicing that the same is true for me. It feels people actually read and engage with my posts, and what I have to say won’t be drowned out by the masses.
Part of the reason I think it’s ok to have slight barrier to entry that the fediverse has in general.
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’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)
Not really... yet. While I enjoy the memes and stuff I miss my smaller niche communities. While some subs the I was part of on reddit were created over here it seems that they are pretty dead and not even the creators/mods care about them. At the moment I don't have the time and energy to build something up from the ground... but I'm gonna stay and do my part!
Aye, folks here are a lot friendlier so tis easier to post!
Not shouting into a tornado helps a great deal.
It's nice to post in a place that has enthusiasm, rather than a place that's become a rote content-mill
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.
I think smaller communities are more inviting. For me it's a combination of wanting Lemmy to succeed, now that Reddit has begun it's downward spiral, and feeling more involved in communities. Though I have only just created my account, so only time will tell if I continue to be active.
definitely, felling kinda social lately
With much smaller user base, one can actually get their posts/replies seen. Big difference.
It's hard to get noticed on Reddit (unless you make a typo!)
Unless you're the first to post on a new topic that goes on to be popular, then no matter what you say you get read and gain karma. If you comment on something a few hours old, nobody ever reads it.
You're one voice in a city. Whereas here, we're a village. Less anonymous, friendlier, easier to get talking to your neighbour.
Not much yet but been lurking a fuck ton. It was a lot easier then I thought it was gonna be getting use to this. I didn't even had to do what I did when I first joined reddit! I had a damn Digg UI addon for Reddit for like 2 months til I settled on old.reddit.
I think I find myself participating more generally, now that I’m not necessarily frequenting specific subreddits
I spent years on Apollo and never even made an account, would just infinite scroll at work. Made an account on Lemmy and already feel like I’m more engaged
I think it helps that the community vibe is completely different here. On some reddit subs your posts would get automatically removed for the most arbitrary reasons, and that really discouraged people from participating. Here I haven't encountered anything like that yet and most of the people that do participate have been super cool too.
I think actually feeling like you are being seen is a big factor for me. I felt buried in Reddit and so far this community just feels right. I really do hope it stays that way.
Just doing my part to test the system. See what clicks, maybe it'll get better with my humble reply, one at a time
I am more of a sarcastic commenter. Made a couple of posts though. However, I am upvoting a lot more stuff here as I never really upvoted posts on that other site that hates 3rd party stuff. I want to make sure this stuff actually works and people don’t go crawling back to that site that makes you Spez out.
yeah people have mentioned already I've seen as a reason. This is because of active/hot, where on reddit the top comment was top because it was highest voted, there's something different going on with sorting here.
I really like the default active sorting keeping discussions in older threads alive for longer. The comment sorting also makes it easier to join discussions later on :)
I lurked reddit for more than a decade and maybe posted 5 times. I hit that my first day here I think. Not sure what the difference is... I guess the smaller user base makes me feel like I can actually engage in a conversation with someone rather than just have my post disappear into the thousands already on a post
I've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?
i feel less desire to troll here. Just feels mean and horrible.
I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times
Try making an account on another server, maybe one of the smaller ones. My first was on lemmy.world, but on this new account on aussie.zone everything is loading much faster and I'm having no issues when it comes to commenting.
I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.