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.

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[–] 187 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    when it became about points instead of sharing people started gaming the system. we are posting to share, most others making it to any level of visibility are actively gaming the system.

    i did some tests around it a few years back, getting notice with derivative gaming is easy but it just drowns out any real content. Only certain power users are usually allowed to the tops of pages, youll see a lot of the same names on the front page over and over.

    clear sign there is no hope and discourse isint real anymore

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think the poll numbers will act the same way to moderate what people say. I don’t think total karma was important, it’s seeing a community you’re in agree/disagree with you, and all the dopamine/negativity that comes from that.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There's also the fact that on Reddit any interesting article was probably already posted:)

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Yea, like 500 times too. I really like the feature on here that checks around for other places the same video might've been posted.

    Like, I shared a vid to Video Essays on LotR theme composition, y'know, niche but not too-niche, and saw it had already been posted in basically every LotR sub. But cool, I posted it anyway cuz it wasn't in that sub yet and it was good content. But it got like two upvotes (probably me and the mod) and I didn't have to really wonder why--oversaturation. Nice feature, big fan of it.

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