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.

Still a lurker tbh, aside from this comment

I am but I'm very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.

Agreed. It’s a smaller community and easier to feel seen. I’ve probably already posted more here than I ever have on Reddit.

I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually'd to death. Sometimes I'd be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, "This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it."

I used to be an avid participant on reddit, but haven't been for a long time. Now on Lemmy, I feel like participating again.

I think it's because it's on us to make this a great place now. Like, we can't just migrate and be silent. Or migrate and be assholes. We come here, we gotta participate positively, so I'm just doing my part.

Always felt unwelcome posting anything on reddit. Lemmy is new enough and filled with people who are nice enough to make feel like I wont get yelled at for commenting or posting.

Me and my people are powered by spite. I am going to try and be more active to help everything along so that reddit may die.

Same here, every post feels like I'm making a small contribution to a platform which I really want to succeed.

I am a lurker for life, probably, but I will try to be better for Lemmy, to help the site grow.

Posting is essential to get this community up and running so thanks!

I think that as a result of the size of reddit, it was unlikely to have engagement when you commented, and it was common to get unkind engagement if it did happen. It’s nice to have a fresh start, but since there’s less of us, it is also a much more intimate experience.

this is me returning to form, as algorithms put me into a hole engagement on my posts went to crap, i stopped posting at this level over 10 years ago now.

having a proper forum again, Im posting like I used to, my google fu is once again being shared with the community.

whats interesting is reddits algo would lead you to believe what you are saying or posting has no value. i come here, and started just posting as normal, expecting nothing, surprised but also reminded of how algos work when i found normal levels of engagement again.

What I like about Lemmy is, that you don't need to be one of the first comments to interact with people. On Reddit you would easily be buried somewhere at the bottom but most Lemmy posts I see have a really nice comment section. People are more likely to see your comment because the posts don't have hundreds of comments but there are still enough comments to start a conversation. I also love that I can have conversations stretched over days. I don't browse Lemmy often. I don't need to feel bad when I answer something a day later.

For me the main factor was replies slanted extremely mean on Reddit, whereas here it's only been polite conversation so far.

I'm perfectly willing to talk on a platform where I'm not getting death threats because I didn't like a videogame or whatever.

Not to that extent, but yea.

Maybe because posting here seems less like shouting into the void? I get replies to most of my posts and comments. Way more engagement.

Yep! Since it is a smaller community, it feels less like screaming into the void. There's a good chance people will see a comment, even if it isn't made in the first hour or so.

For sure. Also more happy to upvote.

I'm doing my best to post more content.

Yes!

I've posted here in the past week or two more than I posted on Reddit in the past 11 years. I think it's the smaller more engaged community that encourages me to do it. Comments don't just get lost in a sea of jokes and grammar bots.

I'd comment lots on reddit, but rarely post. On Lemmy, I post! Even started a community!

Absolutely! I'm posting multiple times a day some days and commenting a lot more. It feels a bit more like you get noticed but also doesn't feel like you're going to get your head bitten off just for speaking. And you can use emojis here 👍👋

I’ve always been a lurker, but I am trying to change. However, I don’t want to comment for the sake of just commenting as well.

i'm more interested in participating since i know what i do and say here wont be swallowed by a black hole.

Yes! I couldn't agree more, before on reddit I didn't participate in any discussion, pretty much a lurker. I enjoy discussions a lot here! They are way better.

The same happened here. More than 16 years on Reddit, and most of them as a not-very-active lurker. But here? I'm commenting every day.

As a FOSS guy, here I feel at home. From the community to the community.

Definitely true for me. I was a pure lurker on Reddit. Now with Lemmy I try to engage a lot more. This place needs to come to life (and I feel like we're doing well, so far).

Barely ever posted on Reddit, but have already outdone the total post count here. Haven't posted in a while though, mostly because of post-work brain melt

I guess it's because this is something you want to actively grow, as opposed to being a drop in the ocean back at Reddit

It's the novelty mostly, plus the fact that smaller communities are more fun to engage in. The same thing happened back on Voat.

Yep, I feel more comfortable interacting here than on reddit, maybe it's because of the way less toxicity here.

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.

There's a common understanding that if you want more activity you need more activity to attract more people. Its a feedback loop that requires engagement. We lurkers know that the best way to help Lemmy grow to a critical mass is to temporarily become active for the sake of fucking over reddit.

It's like jump starting the engine. We need a spark

Me! It just took a while to find my place here.

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

I'm pretty sure I already have more posts on Lemmy than my entire 10 years on Reddit 🤣

Can't really explain why but I'm way more active here. I think I just really want Lemmy to succeed.

I had the same lurker status back on reddit and definitely feel more inclined to post here. I think part of it is that for at least right now, individual comments really are setting up the success of lemmy so it feels good to be a part of that. Also, back on reddit those hardcore karma farmers dominated the threads. You had to find niche subreddits for comments to feel like they mattered...everything else was a "why bother" feeling.