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Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.
I felt that at first but I've found the engagement to be more meaningful here when it does happen, even though it's sometimes sparse or not at all. I came in the previous influx after spez started forcing subs open. I don't really miss it that much now.
I was pretty much a strict lurker on Reddit, so the smaller community here is certainly a bit of a change for me. Only thing for me to do is to change my habits with it, and start actually joining in and adding to the conversations.
Howdy!
In recognition of your contribution to the community, I present you with the coveted Lemmy Lemon award.
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Please let's make the Lemmy Lemon award an unofficially official thing. After reading that I want people to use it more
Let's make it a wheel of cheese. Gotta keep the french happy or they riot 😅
Bruh💀
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I like this idea! Take your Lemmy Lemon. 🍋
Glad you are here!
Gosh I sure love it here. Everybody is so kind & nice. This is such a better feeling place. I enjoy conversing with everyone so far. Reading these comment sections just makes me feel calm too 🥰
I’ve been here 20 some days now and I still feel this way. Great community on this instance. I mod 4 communities and have yet to take a moderator action against a comment or post. It’s a nice little chill slice of internet.
Thank you! I’m glad to be here!
As a former reddit lurker, I like the more low-key engagement here. It feels more welcoming.
You have summed up my feelings exactly.
Greetings, fellow lurker! The torch has been passed. It is our turns to carry it until the communities grow larger and we can recede back to the shadows
I also didn't even bother engaging on Reddit at all, but doing so on Lemmy feels way more worth it for some reason
I've had a genuine thank you from another user, days after I had posted a response here.
I could post on reddit that the sky was blue in response and somehow get turned into a hatemonger that oppressed a flightless subspecies of microwave ovens.
I joined towards the beginning of June and have no intention of going back to reddit. The only exception was to delete everything I had posted there.
I’ve only been here for like a day, but I’ve noticed that too. There’s fewer conversations, but what there is is very worthwhile. I haven’t opened a post to see five people trying to get their joke in first, which could sometimes get a bit annoying haha
One thing I certainly don’t miss from Reddit is the top voted comment is always some lame pun or some tired phrase that has been repeated a thousand times before.
Absolutely 100% this! Opening the comments to find endless walls of repeated bad puns is something I’ll never miss.
I honestly feel like there is more engagement here. Most Reddit threads were like telling into the wind. By the time you got there it was almost always too late to contribute
Another thing to consider is that Lemmy is basically early access. Very rough around the edges and one of those ways is federation. Users from other instances might not see your comment, or might not see it immediately. The good news is, it will only get better and more active.
I've found myself actually reading articles since I can't go in and just read someone else's synopsis of the content, which frankly is a good thing. I can get my own information and form my own opinions, Reddit just let me be lazy but it's a nice change.
As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see, and engagement will follow. I think there is still some fine tuning to be done in terms of the sorting algorithms as well, which would ideally get day old content out and active but fresh content in. A lot of dust left to settle with the great migration underway.
I try. I want to make this work so I try to comment more and perhaps even create some posts (things I didn't do on Reddit). But I have no illusion that anything I post will be "quality".
I think your posts here are quality
You're sweet in saying so <3
Saying this already shows us as a community that your comments are more valuable than any found on Reddit! Any contribution with an inch of sincerity/effort goes a mile. But don't feel too much pressure to contribute. I'm a lurker myself and new to all this constant activity/mod stuff. Contribute as you wish and we'll be happy to respond back!
Good news - you could be the new synopsis guy!
Remember to be commenting on stuff that don’t have comments to drive engagement! It’s important for all of us to do our part
I'm doing my part!
Thank you for your service!
Oooh, first time seeing images/gifs in posts. This looks really nice on PC. Is that just a direct imgur link or something?
I will. I mentioned somewhere else I was a lurker on Reddit, but try to be more active here in the hopes it will help.
I sort by new mostly and if I find something interesting I write a comment trying to startup some conversations. The more people do this, the faster the community will grow.
The problem is there are duplicates communities in different instances.
If I find duplicate communities, I just subscribe to all of them. Maybe recheck after some time and look through the activity and unsub then.
Yeah this seems to be the way to go. Sub to all communities of a topic you're interested in. Then after you find out which ones end up the most popular, unsub from the ones without much activity.
In ways, it's really not all that different from Reddit. There were lots of essentially "duplicate" subreddits, but the most popular ones win out and gain traction.
I was a somewhat massive lurker on reddit, I didn't bother engaging much because I knew 60% of the time the reply would be snippy, even if my post wouldn't be remotely combative. So over the years I just stopped bothering mostly.
My inbox has kicked off more here in the last week than probably the last 365 days on reddit. It's really wholesome, for lack of a better term.
All it takes if you commenting, to fire off more comments just like now. It's good shit!
I like that Lemmy users tend to be nicer even when disagreeing. "That's an interesting take, friend. I believe the opposite, because..." type replies are nice to see.
Exactly, it's all it takes right? I do genuinely wonder how many people on reddit were just bots, the amount of vitriol was super unbalanced compared to real people like on old forums. Does make ya think....
There is definitely a lower quantity of posts and many of those posts don't get tons of comments, but the posts and the comments they do get are of a much higher quality.
Even i was a lurker on reddit. But here, I'm contributing more actively.
"Be the change you want see in the world" applies quite well here.
Also for app, I've been using memmy and it's pretty good.
Yeah I feel you about the active engagement. I personally try to fill in the silence as much as I can by commenting on things I'm even slightly interested in, just to keep the engagement up. Hopefully others do the same.
The bigger communities are reaching a kind of critical mass but getting there for the niche ones, particularly for those with no overarching direction to move to Lemmy, will be slow.
I feel like over time Lemmy as a platform will manage to make it easier to link decentralized communities together (fingers crossed). Until then it's slow and steady.
It reminds me of Reddit a decade ago when most posts in the specialized subs didn't have much interaction either. But the interaction was deeper and more meaningful and did not consist of everybody trying to crank out witty one-liners to whatever topic.
The other thing I try to consider: What was okay maybe a couple of years ago now feels weirdly "empty" because our brains have been Pavloved into having a deluge of dopamine-inducing content washing over us all the time....
Pet peeve of mine was the top comment being a low hanging fruit joke.. Every time. Quite excited for conversation to be more meaningful.
Try to remember that a lot of engagement on reddit nowadays is bots. Even if they seem like humans. How Lemmy is now is how reddit felt back in 2008.
Comments are emptier, but I feel like they're more relevant. To comment is an actual response and discussion, not just the same joke with the expected replies on every thread.