Is anybody else more active here then they were on Reddit?
Is anybody else more active here then they were on Reddit?
When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.
Every comment I would make on Reddit seemed to get challenged by someone looking to start a long-winded argument as they were, in fact, the main character of the universe.
I like it here because so far, people are nice. It’s like the first day of high school and everyone just wants to be friends and meet people.
No karma competition here. It has a bigger effect on behaviour than you'd think.
Never thought of that factor. You are absolutely correct.
I feel like your characterization of Reddit users as long-winded and contrarian is inaccurate and frankly offensive. Let me write you several paragraphs about why you’re wrong, sprinkled with thinly veiled personal insults and outright harsh commentary about you as a person.
Sorry, just trying to make it feel like our old home :)
You had me in the first half sentence.
I completely agree with you. Now defend your point, which I've definitely attacked by replying. 🤺
As the antagonist of this thread, I would have to disagree with this statement. I was, initially, very dismayed to see that no one had taken issue with this comment. Alas, here I am, to set things right. Being that most online communities seem to revolve around my person, I thought that I’d share these thoughts that so many of you had been patiently awaiting.
No but fr, huge fan of these communities. The voices that search out an argument don’t seem to gain quite as much traction on fedi (yet, at least). Probably due to them having a larger overall audience on reddit to feel validated by. Hopefully it stays that way!
As the antagonist of this thread, I would have to disagree with this statement. I was, initially, very dismayed to see that no one had taken issue with this comment. Alas, here I am, to set things right. Being that most online communities seem to revolve around my person, I thought that I’d share these thoughts that so many of you had been patiently awaiting.
This killed me 🤣
Another big difference is the lack of vote fuzzing. It's more obvious when people are abusing the upvote/downvote function, and it feels more meaningful when you know each vote directly represents a real person.
On kbin you can even see publicly which user made each vote, but idk if that functionality is planned or possible on Lemmy. It's quite useful for combating brigading.
Lol that first paragraph would make a good copypasta.
had me in the first half
I like I can say the words Tiannamen and Square and not feel like bots are out to get me 🙂
The misinfo on Reddit is wild. Just shows people don’t understand federation and how the views of one instances’ moderators doesn’t impact what people can say or do on other instances.
grad users banging at door
I like you!
Yay!
And I like you too.
That literally couldn't be further from the truth /s
Reddit comment: “Well actually…” straightens fedora
Yes. It’s far less hostile here and I don’t fear getting downvoted to hell for asking a question.
Excellent point and I totally agree.
Or, to translate your comment to Redditese: "This." ;)
Mostly lurked on Reddit, trying to comment here and there on lemmy.
Yeah and lemmy still shows upvotes even if you get downvoted. Also it doesn’t automatically hide your comment if you get negative votes which I find annoying on Reddit
Deleted My reddit account , tried all of the fediverse before but always went back to propriety for same reason as anyone else. Everyone is there. With the Reddit exodus I feel this will get the push it needs
I'm not only commenting more (because I'm not afraid people will bite my head off for everything I say) I'm also reading a lot more comments in general. I think it's for the same reason, the comment threads seem to involve actual constructive discourse. It's funny that I read fewer posts here than I did at Reddit but I spend a lot more time per post.
because I’m not afraid people will bite my head off for everything I say
How dare you! This is an atrocious thing to say and you should feel bad /s
Oh, don't worry. There's still plenty of people who will bite your head off or call you a "concern troll" for genuine opinions that go against the hive mind. Things are just slower.
Yeah, this place sort of just has a better spirit right now. I hope it's able to hold onto this vibe as it grows.
You hit the nail on the head for me. I comment a lot more, I read more comments and all discussions seems to be way more constructive and people seem actually read eachothers points. I really hope this kind of interactions are here to stay, even when the ferdiverse grows.
I'm more active here. You can actually post comments without idiots being toxic about it for no reason. You can actually make posts without them getting removed for no reason. It's great.
It feels like you can join in later. There are not thousands of replies in the first few hours. So commenting or participating was a waste of time before in many bigger subs. Noone would ever see your answer anyway or interact with you, so there was really no point.
Here it feels like you are actually participating in some way. I really like it.
That’s true - Lemmy displays new comments above “top” comments, allowing them to be seen by everyone.
You can change the sorting, I actually have this post sorted by "top" right now.
Yeah, the default sorting behavior contributes quite a bit.
Posting on reddit felt kinda like lurking most of the time. Here it's indeed different, as people tend to answer questions etc. that are made in comments.
When I joined Lemmy I decided I wanted to engange with the community here on Lemmy, since I on Reddit I just lurked, so I'm much more active here.
I was a 10 year lurker on reddit. Now I have my own Lemmy instance
How far you've come.
Reddit comments just get washed away by millions of other users. Where as in this place it's not as competitive so yea I understand what you mean.
I posted a showerthought mostly to try how posting works. It seemed to be at the top of... is there a /r/all equivalent here?
Anyway, it was visible enough my sister found my account. It kinda feels like moving from a giant metropolis to a village.
I am because I feel it's great to be a part of the growing numbers of the platform. Everything is a bit rough around the edges and it gives it a 'far west' feel
This instance is not big enough for the two of us.
Lemmy still feels really easygoing, kind of feels like Reddit in 2011.
I want to comment more but I often don't have much to say. I've made it a goal to comment more though, because I want to see this platform succeed.
I love the enthusiasm in this thread but if we the mass migration of reddit users that I am hoping for, the toxicity and annoying reddit behaviors are probably coming along with them. I am hopeful that this place will at least stay much more open and free.
Toxicity is good it encourages people to argue which is more content for Lemmy. I've only recently joined but I want to make an active attempt to be toxic and spark engagement.
Stupidest shit I've ever heard. The goal should be to create a more positive environment that encourages real discussion instead of the toxic dumpster fire that reddit has become. Just engage positively instead. If you have something interesting to say people will respond and that will provide content for Lemmy.
I used to be pretty active on Reddit and I kinda became more and more "sour" and unfriendly over there, because the whole community just dragged me down for some reason.
Here, it's like a breath of fresh air and most people are actually quite nice. Topics have finally become more interesting and there's no such thing as an echochamber. Critical thinking seems to be possible here, as well.
So yes, I became way more active again since I'm on Lemmy. Also, I host my own instance and I put a lot of effort into it, so I want it to be in good standing with other instances. Participating in friendly conversations will help with that.
I feel like I can contribute more since the communities are smaller, but I haven't had much of value to say. Haven't really found my niche yet like I had on Reddit.
Been trying to go out of my way to be more active on here. Help the platform grow ya know?
I usually lurk for months at a time then comment once or twice a year on any forum.
Gonna have to buck the trend and say, no.
I had good experiences on Reddit, I was active in a few different communities and had good engagement without the 'avalanche of toxic responses' some people here are describing.
I'm leaving Reddit due to the changes at the top, not because of problems at the grass roots.
Same here. Of course there was always the occasional troll looking for a fight, but mostly acceptable to pleasant interactions.
The grass roots are also wilted, though. All communites decline, unless painstakingly maintained. Not many want to keep doing that on a proprietary, hostile platform. So the overall degeneration is obvious.
I agree, I don't cringe from so-called "toxic" stuff. Also, I've had many lemurs (?) tell me to leave the instance when discussing how to coordinate ourselves, while "toxic" redditors definitely never said anything like that. That's much more toxic IMO.
Still, Lemmy is a blast.
I pretty much only posted on Reddit to ask questions I couldn't easily find answers to and also never got the toxicity that other people experienced. I think I'm mostly just moving because a lot of the subs I followed on Reddit are shut down for good anyway and it seems like a good time to jump ship for an open source option.
Yea. Literally every reddit comment I posted resulted in someone replying to me in a toxic way.
I've only blocked one person on lemmy and that's because they were replying to me in a toxic manner. That's the first reply I've had that's toxic, and I nipped it in the bud. I don't care to have fighting matches back and forth.
Have you noticed if you go to Reddit and click on any thread, usually within the first comment thread, someone will be hating on another person? Fuck that.
I'd honestly suggest everyone block anyone who is being toxic. Not to mention, others don't want to see your drama while looking through comments.
Furthermore, it's great that you can block someone without reporting them here. You can just kinda look at a comment history and be like “None of this is rule breaking, but you're just a jerkass, and I do not care to associate with you.” Further, you can block communities without that being a damnation of that community. Don't know German? Just block the German communities and they won't show in your feed. It's not because they're bad subs, and you want them to go away. You just don't care about them
I also hate how every post you make you would instantly have an automod comment saying the rules.
That could still come to Lemmy, if posts start being seen by hundreds of thousands of people, particularly if they come from instances which don't share the same netiquette as the one the post is made on. Of course there's defederation to fight that, but I feel like it can only go so far.
I check Lemmy multiple times per day now!
Yeah I'm easy more active here that on Reddit, though I was very active when Reddit was younger. It just got too big and lost that feeling of taking to actual people and contributing to the overall experience.
Yes! English is not my first language, so commenting on Reddit made me nervous. I find Lemmy to be more forgiving (if that makes sense?) as well.
I've found that communities generally are more welcoming when they are smaller.
Still trying to “find my place” here but I am enjoying the whole thing. Lots of awesome discussions popping up and great conversation here.
I think so. I feel the camaraderie is much higher here as well, since we’re all refugees together in a sense, but also part of a great new thing.
It's a numbers thing and it's why empathy tends to diminish as population swells.
Here it feels like community, like one's opinion is appreciated. Reddit became a place to hope you get acknowledged at all, where swaths of the community came solely waiting to shout others down and win a fight.
Unfortunately, for all of Reddit's faults, that wasn't a reddit thing, that was just a glaring, crippling defect inherent to humanity. As numbers increase here, that old familiar reddit apathy and antagonism will return. Just play the game of what would you be willing to do, not just rhetoric, for a random person in your circle of friends vs someone from your town/city vs the world. Psychologists call it psychic numbing.
Yes. Got to the point on reddit where I almost never commented because of the ackshually types.
Agree. Also i submit a lot more from my feeds. Stopped doing that on reddit because Mods would just constantly remove things for inane rules. Like "no Apple articles unless its sunday" type stuff..
Still going to stick to tech and space feeds and steer clear of op-eds and anything that could be perceived as political.
Oh man, so many arbitrary Byzantine rules on subs like that. "The word count of replies must be a prime number."
I’m making myself be active here. I’m learning to build my own lemmy instance on a VPS.
I want there to be a sea change in social media. I want an authentic intellectual conversation. I was in college during the usenet era and found it easy to find mind expanding stuff there with a minimum of toxicity.
My hope is the community and software mature steadily together until it is ready to handle a significant influx.
Let’s not reward toxicity. We need to steer the conversation and the software development to reward quality engagement over quantity.
Reddit comment threads are currently just full of groupmind wankery. I like being on a platform where I don't 100% agree with everyone and I don't have to hold "sanctioned" opinions that are approved by a mod team of 3.
Reddit was so American too, all the arguments and things seemed to be through their world view. The fediverse should allow much more diversity, and be a bit more multicultural
Americans are the largest English speaking group, as long as we're in the English part of Lemmy, Americans will still be the largest group.
Reddit unironically gives me 1984 as it’s about to get worse from here on out.
Current Lemmy feels a lot more like early reddit. At the same time I don't think it has hit its Eternal September moment. The site is still primarily the domain of early adopters and people who care about the community.
I'm trying to be! I'm definitely voting more.
Oh, absolutely! I did a lot of consuming on Reddit, and only participated in a couple specific communities.
Here, I feel far more inclined to actively participate.
This is me.
Definitely part of it is wanting to see Lemmy succeed, but it's also just kind of fun being involved in such a rapidly growing social media platform
Yes. I'm looking forward to more original content rather that all of the reposts from reddit. I'm not sure when that tipping point will be, but I hope it doesn't have to do anything with poo.
After the reddit apolcalypse and blackouts. I became less active over there. I still check some subreddits from time to time. But, my activity is low. I only have time to be active in one social network at a time. I chose lemmy.
I made two post on Reddit in like 2008 or something. One day I’ll have made ten posts here.
You're off to a good start.
I'm not as active as I was on Reddit, but to be honest, I like it. I went from spending 5/6 hours scrolling on Reddit, to 1 hour a day on Lemmy.
Really? 5-6 hours? That's a hefty lot, dude!
Agreed, the work I do allows me to just have a tab open and browse it in between, so yeah, been wasting quite some time a day on there.
I was a straight up lurker on reddit, I feel like this environment makes me wanna be more active, reminds me of the old days before websites were a cash grab and there was true communities
This environment feels so much more welcoming
Here people actually react to what I post and write. And they react to the best possible interpretation of what I wrote, not the worst. And even if we disagree, we can still have a nice conversation.
Does anyone have a good theory about why the threadiverse is so much friendlier? Is it only because it's smaller? Is it because of the kind of people a new platform like this attracts? Because there is no karma? Maybe something else?
My theory is that it's a combination of a few factors:
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Smaller communities mean you're likely to interact with the same people. Even if people don't consciously think about it, they don't want to be known as "that guy"
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The first wave leaving Reddit were those most dissatisfied with how it worked, and are more committed to making this place work
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Honeymoon phase. People are being far nicer and more considerate as it's a new platform
If we can keep maybe 1/4 of that as the platform grows and changes, I'd take that as a win.
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I need some more time, I am pretty shy both irl and online and I kinda liked hiding behind tens of other users. But maybe I will grow to like this
I never posted or commented on Reddit. Trying to get in the habit here. This community seems like a better one to be involved in.
Same here
I find myself commenting much more here than I did on reddit. I think that is because I want this to be successful and I want to be able to be done with reddit.
ditto
The future is what we make it!
I used to use Reddit through throwaway accounts. Was never a regular user, and moved away from it over a year ago now. Just stopped posting to socials a lot.
Mental health has gotten better, and I've been more active here than I ever was on Reddit because I just enjoy the vibes the place gives me overall.
Oh yeah, I was telling my wife this exact thing. I feel like I can comment and post way more than I used to and get in discussions cause my comments won't be drowned out as much and when I do see a post it doesn't already have 3k comments on it already like in reddit. A lot more intelligent conversation too which is a nice change.
Edit: sorry about the second comment, my instance isn't updated and is having issues. Tried deleting the second comment but it won't let me lol
Only reason I visit reddit now is to see how the dumpster fire is going
I am definitely more active on here than Reddit. I’ve had the same experience as you but I’m tired of gawking at those know it all cockbags. They’ll be here at some point but yeah, it’s a nice community here.
I surprise myself that I'm more active on lemmy than on reddit.
The users aren't as toxic, so it's much more fun to participate.
In the 13 years I've had a Reddit account, I made 40 comments, and 4 posts.
In the 15 days I've had a Lemmy account, I've made 28 comments and 1 post.
Now I wouldn't want to be one for extrapolating from data of different timescales, but...
Every time I made a post on Reddit was to ask a question I couldn’t find from someone else who asked the same question. Here I can actually participate and feel connected to the people I talk to.
I was a lurker on Reddit. I had less than 500 Karma when I deleted my 12-year-old account a couple weeks ago.
I've already been more active on Lemmy than I was my entire time on Reddit. Everything here just feels more genuine.
I've had 2 accounts already on Lemmy and have posted more in one day than in one year on Reddit (mostly lurking).
It feels much smaller and cosier. It's less intimidating to actually participate here.
Yes, absolutely. I'm still not sure if it's because the whole community is smaller here, the people are better, no Karma competition, or a combination of all the above
no Karma competition
EDIT: THANKS FOR THE DOWNVOTES YOU IDIOTS.
EDIT 2: LMAO LIKE I CARE ABOUT DOWNVOTES, KEEP THEM COMING
EDIT 3: YOUR DOWNVOTES FUEL ME
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It's always funny, because they will be at -1 and cry like they don't care, but then delete the comment because they want it to stop lmao.
Funny the is, the instance i an on or that this is posted on has no down votes only upvote, forever positivity mwuahahahahahaaa!!
On Reddit I was afraid to comment or post because of the inevitable onslaught of users who would try to start a keyboard fight on the most trivial of topics. It hindered me from just sharing any kind of opinion or cool accomplishment to the point where I would just comment with a one-word or one-liner in hopes it's not petrol. Getting shit on turns you in to a lurker. I've engaged more on Lemmy in the past 2 weeks than I have on Reddit in years. I like it here.
Absolutely, I'm way more active on here. Reddit is so oversaturated, it's impossible to comment on a post before it already has hundreds of comments unless you have time to sit in New and comment as submissions come in. Here, I feel like someone will actually read what I write. Thanks for reading!
Eh, not usually an issue on smaller subs, but yeah the comments in huge subs are often full of predictable inane garbage, unless the mods are actively keeping it on-topic, such as r/askhistorians etc.
It's nice being here while it's still small and watching it grow. Excited for the future. :)
Yes, the smaller subs are definitely better, and I think r/askhistorians is legendary for their moderation. All good lessons for us to learn as lemmy grows!
I'm definitely trying to be, which isn't difficult considering that my last comment there was a year ago, and I only made 5 comments that year.
I'd been on reddit for 11 years, and I was more active back then, but I sort of started to just lurk more as time went by, probably because there was an ocean of comments in every post
100%. I've always been a lurker but on lemmy, and I don't know why, but I feel more comfortable interacting and making comments. Haven't made a post yet. Maybe one day
About the same, however engagement here seems to be easier and better all around. Have only run into 1 or 2 pedantic assholes as opposed to reddit being like 80% pedantic assholes.
I've been spending more time here. Could be the newness factor or maybe it's just more engaging. It's going to be a lot different only because of the smaller population. I think Reddit may have been too big for its own good.
My level of activity on Reddit has been wanting. I was / am still fairly active in some niche subs, but I used to be pretty active in AskReddit, askmen, and several other spaces.
I've made a concerted effort to be more active here, and it feels nice! Feels a lot more human
I'm certainly not as depressed after scrolling here as opposed to redditt. The magic pixie wranglers at Lemmy don't seem to be as centered on eyeballs on the screen sucking your soul while you're doom scrolling. I'll take it as a win.
Reddit's winning formula: repost, repost, Trump, repost, fight video, repost, repost, social media drama
I've noticed lately that it's just trying to raise the temperature in the room. It has become facebook
Yeah that's true. I get that US politics can be entertaining and lead to funny tweets, but the content inevitably makes you feel worse than before. It's all so gloomy and brings out the worst in people. Doesn't help that seemingly everyone is somewhat of a lunatic.
I also don't get the fight posts. Sure you can block them for yourself, but just having them constantly on r/all for the entire platform to see can't be good for the general climate.
Uplifting News is also often more fit for the Boring Dystopia subreddit, which I quit after a few weeks because the constant stream of negativity was slowly affecting my views and just worsened the experience for me.
All these types of content exist because they showcase a part of life, but the intensity and frequency are significantly elevated above the everyday norm. I wouldn't want that content to be restricted, but I also think platforms need to make sure they create mostly positive places of community. I feel much more inclined to contribute if the overall feeling of the communities is inviting and open-minded, not overly cynical or divided.
Emotional and negative content simply gets tons of views and engagement and it's therefore often in the best interest of platforms to push it to the top for everyone to interact with.
My silent hope is that that might be different for lemmy and that we can keep a more positive attitude among each other because of it.
I think the biggest difference here is that I keep getting surprised by how civil most of the discussions are.
I believe in the non-corp nature of this. While they it didn't fumble as bad as Digg did, Reddit will continue to enshittify itself. For that, I'm playing the long game. I've made 2 niche communities here, have held myself to making just 1 new post a day in each, crossposting the one that has a sister community, and will respond to any who comment. I have enough content for each that I could post all day for months, but I'm not going to burn out or get bored. I'll still be here a year from now, as long as this place is still around.
1000%!
I actually created a community for a hobby of mine, and have been trying to post and comment more.
I have not been on reddit since the protest, but I didnt post or comment a lot anyway so probably not much of an impact
Tip for when Lemmy becomes bigger: Find a niche community that's big enough you get seen, but small enough you get noticed.
Yes because:
- I want to see it take off and want to do my bit
- It feels like a more chilled environment in which to participate
I am definitely feeling more motivated to participate here. It feels like a very welcoming environment so far.
Might be a case of "grass is always greener." I feel like more eyes and engagement happens for my posts and comments on Reddit. Over here it feels empty yet full, which is weird.
Really? For me it's the opposite effect. You usually don't get crazy amounts of engagement like on reddit where a post can have hundreds of upvotes and comments but on average, I feel like I'm getting more engagement and more valuable engagement.
I think this might be due to the algorithms for sorting comments since there always seems to be too many meaningful comments but low upvotes to signal quality to others. More specifically I think it's harder to go viral here.
I would like to be, want to try to come out of my shell some on here and interact more than just voting…
I feel more obligated to contribute here because I want Lemmy as a whole to be more active. More content = more users.
Same, but I'll admit I'm trying to enjoy my last remaining days on Reddit to the fullest.
I wish I could say the same, but going there makes me feel like I’m cheating on Lemmy now haha
Absolutely. As much as I loved Reddit, I always felt drowned out due to the large user base and was hesitant to share my opinion. Thanks to Lemmy and its (currently) smaller communities, I feel like my voice has wider reach or, at the very least, less aggressive competition.
Yes because we need to drive the content machine here otherwise this place looks stale
Depends, I was mainly active on small subreddits that were focused on things I was interested in. Here those small subs don't exist yet (or are very inactive), but the lower overall user count means I'm interacting with a lot more communities than I would on reddit.
I have been posting more than I ever had on Reddit. Mostly because I got my news from Reddit, but over here I have to bring the news to Lemmy.
Me, by far.
In Reddit: dropped mod position years ago. Used uBlock Origin to remove the voting buttons, as they're pointless. The only threads that I've created were in r/RedditAlternatives, near the end. Create account, comment as I feel in the mood to comment, shred its content, repeat every ~3 months. Extremely rude tone towards anyone showing the smallest sign of shallow thinking, wishful thinking, or similar character flaws. Scaling up arguments for the sake of why not.
Here: moderating three comms. Actively voting. Creating threads fairly often, specially in the comms that I mod. Trying to keep a polite tone and contribute as long as I can. I've only got a single potential fight (against an extremely trashy user - assumptive, with poor reading, but still screeching like he was in Reddit), and even then I simply told myself "meh, why bother".
I feel like I am not yet, but I will be. Some of the subs I have on Reddit aren’t here yet, partly because they’re either niche or liked by a lot of people that are less tech literate including their maintainers.
I have gone trough some instances before deciding on my current one and I like the stance of most that are for an active discussion, against mindless downvotes and for overall more communication than social media consumption.
The fact that there is next to no automated account making will also help in the long run I think. It makes it an less attractive target for the bad kind of bots imo.
I feel like the nays will be underrepresented bc of selection bias so I'll be one.
So far I have not had the same engagement. But I am convinced that is bc I have yet to get used to the jerboa UI/UX. I am more active once I feel at home, was the same for reddit, is the same for lemmy.
Its great that you feel more impactful on lemmy! I think on reddit you either feel the way you have or are constantly being called a slur (say "tankie") and removed/banned left and right.
So far lemmy seems way more authentic to me. Less capital interest, PR companies, bots, astroturf, think tank/gov-adjacent hacks. I like that.
Alos writing this made me realize my mode of commenting is still very much a reddit one
Oh for sure. It definitely seems like people are more level-headed over here, and are less likely to find the most nitpick-y thing to jump into an argument with you over.
(Which, to clarify, I don't mean someone correcting information I've posted - of course, if I've posted something incorrect I'd like to know - but even then, there is always a tactful way to go about doing so)
I think you mean "nitpicky"; the hyphen wasn't necessary.
Smaller community means my post or comment is actually likely to be seen. I've been participating way more.
Yes, to put my money where my mouth is.
In early 2022, a few months prior to the first rumors Elon Musk might acquire Twitter, I left both Twitter and Reddit for the Fediverse, making it a point to contribute a tiny bit of the content and interaction that help platforms reach critical mass.
In case you're wondering, I left Twitter because the algorithms had made me essentially invisible. There was no point posting or interacting there.
i feel most of the people that actually made the jump to lemmy are the more mature and calmer crowd as compared to your average Redditor
This is an incorrect assessment of the facks. I believe it to be the same people that hate reddit for banning them....and me. You know... Good people 😁. People who like and say weird shit. People who find useful ways to use reddit....and then reddit finds out it's useful and replaces you with a bot or someone else.....
Reddit's modo should be "build our communities! And get the fuck out! They're our communities!"
I am the former admin for r/keitruck and r/Seattlegay. One day I started to notice hate messages. I might have replied. Then I noticed a deluged of that until one morning I got a message saying I was banned. I spent all my fun pandemic free time building those two places. So fuck reddit.
key word there was most
I was only active on certain small subreddits, here I am active in more different communities.
Me too, but mainly because my favorite small subreddits (hobbies and local) just don’t exist here. :(
Or at least I haven’t been able to find them.
Yeah that is indeed true unfortunately. I think small communities will be around eventually, it just takes time.
I didn't even have an account on reddit for the last few years because I was getting too active and I could feel the karma cravings so I just deleted my account and lurked using old.reddit.com.
I certainly do! Reddit was just too loud in every way.
Since signing up on Lemmy three days ago, I think I've posted on here more times than I have on Reddit over the past 2-3 years.
Haven't touched reddit in 2 weeks
Yeah likewise and this has been pretty great.
I haven't browsed Reddit since a couple of weeks now. I am definitely more active on Lemmy.
I am, absolutely, less intimidating. Remember there are literally dozens of us.
Considering I am totally inactive on Reddit now, yes.
I'm generally less active here right now, but I feel like I'm more free to speak my opinion, overall the community here just feels friendlier
I am a bit more active here than I was in Reddit because I feel like here we don't really find the toxicity we had on Reddit, at least in my opinion.
also this is toxicity...
For what it's worth, I posted once on Reddit in the last year (and that was related to Sync shutting down) where as I've posted 4 times so far here.
I'm generally a lurker but perhaps the newness of it makes me feel that my posts won't be drowned out so it makes it more worthwhile taking the effort.
Definitely. I'm both posting and commenting way more. I need to do my part to make sure this thing really takes off!
This is my second comment since joining this morning, so yes, significantly more active.
Yeah, it's fun being part of a smaller community.
Lemmy just feels better to comment/interact with. I just feel more motivated to be active on here.
Yes.
I have not touched reddit since this debacle... I added a bunch of subreddits to my RSS reader, but I'm honestly not looking at it.
Unfortunately searching for information often brings me to a reddit post, but I'm trying to avoid it and so far found the information elsewhere.
Yes
My local cities daily thread is more active than it what's left on Reddit, despite the Reddit community having 600k subs. 410 comments on the Reddit thread, 480 on the lemmy community thread.
It's been like this daily.
My cities thread on Reddit isn't even active.
MUCH more active here for me
Yes, I am significantly more active here than I was on Reddit (at least recently, my decline on posting/commenting on Reddit started a few years ago).
i definitely agree! being part of a growing community is a special feeling. although i had been on reddit for about ten years, it felt like by the time i joined, the community was already established and any comments i made got drowned out by a sea of other comments. here, it feels easier to be "seen".
I'm not sure it matters more TBH... but I basically stopped Reddit for 2 days, and now just get drawn back to read the occasional post - but don't bother commenting.
With the downtick in Reddit, I remembered that I hadn't read a book for a month or two, so I headed over to Annies Archive and grabbed a bunch to add to my Kindle...
So I now downloaded 3 versions of 'Great Expectations' and am reading that book before watching them - but also have "Welcome to the MonkeyHouse" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Book Thief" grabbed from Annie's Archive.
Basically now I'm spending less than half the time on net than I was before.
100% Lemmy content is just so much more up my alley
I feel like I have seen more conversations on Lemmy about Reddit than original content
I did more shitposting on Reddit but I do more seriousposting here. I haven't found people with a similar sense of humor here yet. But I enjoy the conversations about the fediverse.
Show me your best memes
I am! Feels like a fresh start. Also, wanting to stay active to make a better community.
I can actually post on Lemmy...so yup.
I’m not active on Reddit at all, so I’m definitely more active here. And I agree, the community here is a much better fit, so far at least.
I agree, and am more active here than rdit.
I was mostly active on askreddit and haven't found a good asklemmy replacement yet. I'm also dumb and don't understand lemmy that well so I might be missing something obvious
I wouldn’t say I’m any less “lurk-y” than I was on Reddit, but here just feels like a group of friends hanging out. Feels more friendly :)
Looking forward to a fresh start and also looking forward to a new Sync lemmy app too.
I definitely am posting more too. Id like to think this because this will turn out to be a much more genuine community than reddit, but i think there is a chance that this just dies down in the coming months. Hoping for the former of course.
I definitely am. I may have more comments and posts here than on Reddit already and I have only been here a fraction of the time.
It does help that I can share all my crusty but hand-picked imgur memes and people are actually enjoying them. I have even begun thinking about ways to create OC, something I never did on Reddit. Feels great to fuel the meme machine!
So I truly believe that Reddit just got too big to the point where it prevented me from engaging very much. I’d say about 80-90% of my posts were ignored or I’d see a similar thought to my own and not even bother writing a response. The smaller subs were a bit better, but most of the time it felt like whispering in a hurricane. There were some good moments where I’d time it right and get a ton of upvotes and replies which was fun, but it was so few and far between that trying to engage at all on Reddit was a pretty lonely experience most of the time.
In Lemmy however I know that there are people actually reading my replies instead of just getting my comment thrown to the bottom of a massive pile of comments stacked on top of it. There’s definitely value to that, and I think separate instances will continue to support the small town vibe.
There’s a downside though, and it really comes down to searching for answers or guidance to anything you’re curious about. It’ll take Lemmy ten years to get to the point where there’s enough historical data to rival the amount of useful info that Reddit has.
I never posted on Reddit. Every time I did it was a bad time. I could post the most innocuous thing imaginable (The sky is blue. Water is wet), and without fail have at least a few people telling me I was stupid, naive, woke, a Nazi, whatever. There is a ton of extremist energy around here too, but the radical left is much easier for me to stomach than the radical right.
I actually made an account.
Yeah
Honestly, I'm trying to be more active in here. The whole defederation thing going around has me confused about where my account lives and replicating what's on it. Makes it hard to stay active if I don't know what's going to happen haha
I hear ya. Thats why i just setup my own instance....
Absolutely, by necessity. Can’t really take it for granted that being a lurker won’t overall impact the site. Unfortunately, my usual subs that I participate in haven’t yet made the leap of faith, so its hard to provide quality contribution until that improves
Yeah. Im getting very active here.
I'm a lot more active then I was on Reddit.
I was very active in the subs of the games I play (I'm even r/CSRRacing2 mod) when I started there, but I'm getting tired of the hate, stupidity,...
Yes. Smaller community, and generally more intelligent, or at least more capable of having a meaningful discussion.
I think it's something that happens when you throw a larger group of people together, like reddit, where people act a bit different ime
Even I am less toxic, and more positive. Something about reddit messed that up.
Atp, I'm here more for discourse than any specific content, and that's something I really missed about social media.
barely, but I'm trying
I’m only a new transfer but all of these comments are making me feel like I want to begin to take part here now as well!
I think I'm about as active here as I was on Reddit. Always was more of a reader.
yes, never had a reddit account.
Have been wanting to say this for a while, but same here! I feel like Lemmy is much more tight-knitted and closer than Reddit because it is just smaller!
I feel the same way!
Honestly, not really, but I also was crazy active on reddit. Now I haven't posted anything there for the past week and I also completely removed Infinity from my phone. Bye bye reddit
I've never been much of a poster (not even 2 posts/yr for the almost dozen years I've had a reddit habit), but I was a regular commenter in various specific-interest subs.
I am, as a rule, no longer contributing content to Reddit, since they've made it clear they plan to finish their transition from "hosting communities" to "extracting value from users." Frankly, it's not as much of an imposition as I feared, because many of those communities seem to be broadly taking the same attitude.
I'm actively trying to comment heavily here to to try to help establish communities. If I had a little more free time I'd do some posting and/or try to help spin some successor communities for my interests.
Yes, I didn't have an account and I always browsed via a proxy (Teddit). I didn't want to be manipulated by the algorithm.
My 2-week old lemmy account is already more active than my 10-year-old reddit account. I love this place!
Also, I just tried to check my old main reddit account, and noticed it's suspended. I made 0 posts regarding reddit's mismanagement of this situation, 0 endorsements for lemmy.. just haven't logged in there since the API announcement. Oh well 🤷♂️ Can't say I'll miss it.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not the most active, but I made a sublemmy (I'm still not sure about the naming convention here lol) and that's something I never did on Reddit, because everything was usually already there in some form. I also did it to contribute, because I know that us being active actually counts for something. On Reddit I could go months without posting or commenting. So yes, I'm definitely more active and it feels like you are actually engaging with other people and not just consuming content.
The smaller the community, the bigger the impact of your opinions.
For example, just on my own, I can reach a good 50% impact on anything I say unless my wife says something different.
I'd mostly comment on shitposts, and there's less here so I feel like I comment less
Much more active here for sure. I was more of a lurker on Reddit. I'm not sure why, but I'm just way more active here. Perhaps I want Lemmy to succeed and so I'm doing my part.
Absolutely, but that is expected. The community is much smaller here. How many times did you go to a post on Reddit to make a comment only to find someone else had already said it. That is less likely here so you naturally have more to contribute.
Definitely, I was a lurker or Reddit except for the occasional question to a programming subreddit.
Most of my Reddit commenting was done on threads for people looking for advice in one of my hobbies. I generally had a good experience giving feedback here since most people in the subreddit were level headed. Sometimes you got the occasional asshole parroting the usual online "best way to do something" that goes against some people's actual real life experience that is being shared.
I didn't really make any meaningful (non joke) comments outside of this subreddit since I didn't feel like getting some dick in my notifications trying to start a fight over whatever I posted. Sometimes I didn't mind battling the dicks in the hobby subreddit since people lurking can actually learn or get a different perspective from "No, you shouldn't take what's in a listicle as fact. Here is my experience with this."
back to a level of activity i would call my "normal". hasn't been like this in almost a decade.
For me it was always difficult to be active on R so the atmosphere here is much more pleasant.
So far trying to find my old communities I would run with, can’t seem to find all of them.
I did once find /r/FeedTheBeast on lemmy but no longer can find it on here!
Once I get my rotation I will def use this way more.
I am more actif here than on reddit. There was a time on reddit I stopped even upvotes and down votes when I noticed they are changing philosophy. Here I post more stuff and wrote more comments. Sometimes to add value to discussions and sometimes just for the sake of commenting and getting activity rolling.
Agreed - stopped posting and sharing on Reddit a while ago. I engage more and find this place more engaging. It’s good!
Yes
Nah. Thankfully my mindless scrolling time has taken a dive, which is an issue I had been meaning to address regardless.
I am definitely less active on Reddit, to the point of absence from posting/commenting. However, I am not very active here either. I have encouraged others on Mastodon to join Lemmy but I acknowledge that it's not as mature as a Reddit replacement, as Mastodon is as a twitter replacement. Definitely both systems are getting better and hopefully, we can move our social networking to the fediverse 100% by 2024.
I'm not there yet, although I did a lot on Reddit
I have already made as much comments here, as in 10 years of Reddit.
Looking forward to becoming active in the community
I’m so glad to finally join! Signup was tricky and finally got Memmy working for ios. Happy days
Yes. I was a Reddit lurker but am much more active on Lemmy. Feels like a nicer/smaller community.
yeah. not sure about the open/free part, with defederation & whatnot, but it's not like those instances stopped existing (unlike with reddit where they just moved to a new subreddit).
hopefully in a few months there'll be a decent mobile client.
I’m on iOS and I’m using Liftoff and so far it’s a pretty solid client. I came from Apollo so I’m hoping there will be a similar client, I don’t want a straight rip off but more of a spiritual successor.
Equally. Try to get used to this and to subscribe to topics I follow.
I will be once Apollo is shut down. Right now, I'm sifting through the hundreds of subscribed subreddits I have in Reddit to see if they've any official communities for them here. If anyone can direct me to stable diffusion instances, I would be grateful.
Don’t know if you know about this but there is a site that lists all communities hosted on the fediverse. I’ve listed a few stable diffusion comms and the site I found them on.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/stable_diffusion
God bless you! Need some Reddit Gold equivalent here.
Yes and no.
Yes, because if I find something interesting I have been more likely to comment here then on Reddit.
No, because the gaming subs I follow have not moved over here. For example, planetside makes up ~12% of my comment karma on Reddit.
I’ve commented here more than I did in 12 years. Separately, I like the discussion topics, and it’s more engaging to me. I found that Reddit (though still has great information) definitely shifted to an entertainment focus along the way. Maybe 2016ish??
Absolutely.
More active here, i never got onto the idea of reddit, always made me uncomfortable for some reason.
I did use 3rd party apps like slide or infinity to read reddit posts and follow sibreddits i liked.
My reddit account was soft locked for months barring me from any interaction, just lurk.
I never fixed it because i was wasting to many hours on debates. Yesterday i told my wife i was going to come downstairs after finishing my reply. It took 30minuts.
Lemmy is great and i love interacting with it but honestly i wouldn’t mind a bot that helps me to stop now and then. This cant be good for my mental health in the long run otherwise.
I empathize with this so much. I can sink hours into a forum, especially one that's open ended like this and reddit.
There are apps that give you notifications for when you've been using an app for a continuous period, as well as using your phone in general. I don't use them, but I have been considering it.
There's simultaneously too much time and not enough time. I just feel like I don't know what to fill my day with on an individual level, and then that there aren't enough days. We only get what amounts to a few thousands and then we die.
Yup, way more active. I used to mainly lurk on reddit. Now I'm commenting more and have actually posted a couple of times.
Not yet. Not only is there less content, but also a stupid amount of rehashed content. Like people seem to be trying too hard to replicate everything they did on reddit and end up just copying stuff over.
There's some nice big communities here, but the more niche stuff is much harder to replace with the smaller userbase.
Absolutely! There's some feeling of ownership now that I can host an instance of my own - I want this platform to succeed, I want to give something back to the open source community, even if it's only a small server.
Depending on the circumstances. I dont like far right and far left subs, so if this lemmy's subs also become far-sides I will stick to my own lemmy.
I must admit the view of the PC site is growing on me and it looks very concise and put together. If the upvoting quirks can get worked out it'll be great. Happy that once i've viewed comments (like now) this thread will vanish after <3
Even RES old.reddit was annoying to me, very ugly - lemmy looks fresh.
Once the apps get fully fledged, it's off to the races. Well...I already am #Memmyarmy
Also I gave up commenting on reddit, more or less every single time some snippy cunt tries to start an argument over the smallest thing. Exhausting shit...
I’m trying to be more active. It doesn’t come naturally as I’m generally a lurker. Good vibes help though
Just started today, but as my reddit activity is going down to zero …. Yes lol
I only commented on reddit when I saw something so dumb I couldn't help myself or even my opinion when against the grain.
On lemmy I comment on most posts and my comments are far more pleasant.
Yes, though I know it’s only temporary. Once we’re done with poop and beans, it’ll just take the place of Reddit and I’ll chill out.
I post more for sure. Not a lot,but here I'll actually engage here, unlike reddit. I feel like actually investing the time to engage a little bit
I try to be more active :D
Yes, definitely. Maybe I feel like my contributions matter more since we are all trying to make this a viable platform? I dunno, but it's definitely more fun interacting here than on reddit.
Yes, my screen of time have surpassed Reddit since long ago... And with multiple Lemmy apps!
It'll be interesting to see where this goes, if the people here are "getting in on the ground floor" of something or just joining something doomed to slowly fade into obscurity.
Yup. Also, it’s nice that the people who do bring the Reddit toxic behavior here get called the fuck out here
The 2 communities that I have an interest in isn't on lemmy so I tend to use both lemmy and reddit the same amount.But my mindless scrolling has decreased dramatically
Yeah, I am much more active on here.
Yes. I gradually disengaged over the years. I will become less active once the pump is primed. Perhaps turn to more technical aspects, as maintaining my own instance. Or be more offline in general.
I feel no difference, I still comment as much as on reddit with the difference that people are more open here and more welcome.
There are certainly less "competition". On Reddit, while I was trying to comment something, my opinion was probably written somewhere in the thousand of comments. At some points I just read and read, and lost my motivation for contributing.
But here at Lemmy, we're still at the early days, so I'm trying my best to make the community more "lively".
I've been surfing more on Lemmy than on Reddit now, but that being said, the niche subs that I was "most active in" are just not available/big enough in any of the Lemmy instances I've found, so I end up not really commenting much here compared to on Reddit.
To some extent, yeah. It feels like a more tight-nit community here.
Never posted on Reddit, too big. love it over here
There's no karma here?????
For sure. I'm posting in dozen of groups.
If I simply say yes, it'll be a bit misleading. Since I've deleted my Reddit account recently, I can only post here. But I'm not only only posting here. I'm also more happy to do so.
Now that the reditters have come here. All the same pro-capitalism and rude behavior is here
Don't be delusional, our opinions still does not matter.
