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A lot of lurkers from Reddit, myself included, actually don't lurk on Lemmy.
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Lemmy will only improve if the lurkers stopped lurking.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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The lurking will continue until content improves
But how will the content improve when the lurking continues?
Because the content will just devolve to shitposting, as god intended.
Ok fine i’ll stop lurking
I’ve actually felt like contributing here. It’s been 11 years on reddit for me and I made 5 posts and a handful of comments in that time.
I commented on reddit a lot but I do feel the need to be more involved here because I want to help build up the community. That said, I do want to be more careful about how I use my account. Avoid getting into discourse when I can, try not to argue with people as much.
I feel like I can be healthier on Lemmy if I go into it with a different mindset, and without Reddit's dogshit algorithm, it might make it easier.
Yeah even though I'm still just as uncomfortable making posts and will only do it if really needed, I have felt much more able to comment on Lemmy.
Hopefully my confidence will continue to improve with time
I made 2 posts on Reddit, one was a meme about my friend jumping over me to see my username, the other was some random text post. Thousands of comments though
It's just not in my nature... So much so that I'm trying to release a Lemmy app tonight, and I just remembered I haven't started on the ability to post...
Everything else came easy to me - you should be able to click on anything, everything should stay where you left it... But I have no idea how people want to post. I should probably just do it now before I overthink it
Same, created a account never posted on reddit. Here it fell more meaning full.
I used that powerdelete script last night and turns out I made one singular post on reddit in 9 years of use, when DDLC recently released: 
uh, no. If we're all lurkers then there'll be no content here
I'm more motivated to participate when there's fewer comments. On Reddit I often refrained from commenting when I noticed the other commenters already covered the point I wanted to make.
Don't forget karma whoring, where your comments will be invisible to the algorithm and you seem to talk to an empty wall, while one liners and easy jokes are at the top.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Uhhhh, sorry!
Or someone with the same opinion as yours will start argue with you because you said it in a different way that they don't agree with.
They wouldn't "argue" they would correct you.
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Came here to say this.
Same here. Even subs (instances? communities? still figuring out the lingo, sorry) are so quiet I'm even posting actual posts. Or on news posts, I have a question about the content where on reddit someone will have already asked and I can just see what responses or vitriol they got.
Yeah, the size can be pretty overwhelming
I was a lurker on reddit, but I'm commenting a lot more here. I want to help Lemmy grow.
I'm also MUCH more active on Lemmy, especially because the community is currently so non-toxic and it (mostly) feels so welcoming and warm
I love everyone posting about lurking
I think it's because we know we need to post, but also know we have nothing constructive to add to most things we're looking at. It's like people replying all to a birthday email at the office.
Everyone has something interesting to share. I believe in you!
Not true. I've been participating here.
Is this sarcasm?
No, it's a butterfly.
In Reddit there usually already a comment saying what I think so I would rather just updot, hence I lurk less and comment more here.
Was always just lurking on Reddit, maybe had one comment or so. For some reason, when moving over here, I've been enjoying this so much, I'm no longer just a lurker.
yeah i feel so much more motivated to contribute to new communities that i'd like to see grow and thrive
I lurked on Reddit for many years. I’ve felt motivated enough to post comments here and hopefully find good content for the growing new communities here.
Speak for yourself 😂
Never not post.
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You can't see me
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html I guess that it provides some metric of how relevant a community is and I presume in the future it could be tied into ranking of ratings of posts and comments
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Neither of these extremes fit. Huh
Lol what?
I think there's a greater chance of lemmy users interacting rather than just lurking because of the requirement of posting or commenting to be counted as active which should in turn help grow the community
Is there a reason why I should care if my account is active or not? Genuine question I just made my account two days ago
That's a great point. Happy to help!!
a question remain - while I think the requirement to engage to be counted as active will certainly increase engagement generally - will it lead to "quality" content and comments? not that I currently know exactly how you quantify quality
That's a good question, and probably not. I figure growth won't increase the proportion of quality comments, but it will undoubtedly increase the frequency. Hopefully the voting system will cause low quality comments to drift away from what we tend to see.
Something I take away from forums is that user volume is incredibly impactful, even if most is low quality. As long as there is something to scrape off the top, I think I'll be satisfied. Obviously this misses some nuance but I think it works as a rule of thumb, especially to grow incredibly small niche communities that otherwise won't exist.
I was above average active on reddit. I hope I can be the same here