For two years I lurked on Reddit without an account to an unhealthy degree but with the API changes I created a Lemmy account and made a pledge not to lurk. I've still only made comments but hoping to post something soon!

Me too!

I remember posting a lot more on Reddit when it was smaller, then I would just post in the smaller subs, then everything got so big it just didn't seem worth it. Anything I would post was probably already there, my comments would maybe get read by one person and never seen again. Getting back to something smaller feels like an actual group of people interacting instead of just a monolith website and I like it