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Lemmy is growing very, very quickly but I still feel like there’s more interaction between actual humans here and not some stupid karma farming bots. I came over here before the Reddit civil war started and there’s been more and more content every day without it feeling contrived. I’m quite fond of Lemmy at this point.

Yes, I never felt like commenting when there were hundreds of previous comments. Here, with just a few comments, it feel like it an actual contribution, not a drop in the ocean. I also spend more time reading each comment.

Lemmy feels like real people. Reddit was just overrun by bots and astroturfing. The more time I spend here the more I realize that.

1. The top 3 most upvoted comments aren't unfunny puns.
2. This feels mor elike a 'community' because there's fewer people. I don't feel like I'm screaming at a tornado.
3. More niche content. It's more fractured and I liked that about the early internet and early-reddit.
4. My Reddit account got banned for a fucking ridiculous reason and every new account I make they re-ban. Fuck Reddit and it's over-sanitised, Disney-bullshit.
5. I can speak British English without my comment getting deleted. E.g. "Can I bum a fag mate"?

I am averaging an unhealthy amount of comments per day, and I'm enjoying every moment.

I feel like I'm keeping a journal, only the book talks back to me in a thought provoking manner. You guys have been really great for me.

Absolutely.

Actually, I'm probably writing about the same number of replies. It's just that here I'm much more likely to actually post them.

On Reddit, I tended to write out replies, then visualize what was going to happen if I posted it - if I got any response at all, it was likely to just be a troll or a shill or a bot regurgitating some bit of emotive rhetoric or a tired meme. Then I'd just delete it instead of posting it.

Here, the only likely negative outcome is nothing at all. If somebody does respond, it's actually likely that it'll not only be a real person, but that they'll actually post real thoughts rather than just rhetoric and memes.

I had forgotten what that feels like.

I need to become more active and lurk less.

I'm trying to be more active here largely because more people want want to join a site that seems like it's mostly dead with only a handful of posting/commenting.

I'm not really much of a content creator, and I'm hoping we quickly get enough active users that I can fall back to mostly lurking and chiming in when I have something to add.

It's a lot easier to find conversations here. Vibes like reddit of 5-10 years ago. When communities get too big, the most popular gets pretty boring for people with niche tastes.

I definitely feel more inclined to comment. Especially since so many posts have so little comments. It feels like my comments are more worthwhile to write to add to the discussion.

Lemmy has made me realize that choosing communities (similar to subreddits) is important to me. I try not to search by /all and find information I am interested in. Having to join new communities again is not exactly a problem.

I heard a quote once that said "The cost of living in a good community is community service." I've been using that as my drive to interact with posts more here.

Very much yes. Now I can make relevant and helpful comments without 50 other people saying the same thing before I even saw the post. I feel like my contribution here matters.

I genuinely had more meaningful interactions on lemmy so far than in my 2 years of using reddit.

The first time in years it feels actually fun to engage with people, rather than just doomscroll endless void of content

There's more engagement here, you can comment late and have people talking with you.

Yes…please please please Apollo for this place. Clunky interface is my biggest impediment to using more.

I've been using Lemmy a lot but I'm not sure how much time I was spending on Reddit. I feel like I check it more, but maybe I just noticed more now because I took my reddit app off my phone

In Reddit, your words are a drop in the deluge of the masses. Here, every comment, or even a humble upvote can make a difference.

160+ posts already, I'm impressed. All of it in less than 2 weeks. Meanwhile on Reddit it was constantly walking on eggshells.

I do post comments here more than reddit. Partly to help keep engagement up, but also because I haven't seen many shitheads trying to make me feel bad.

I've been more active on this site than I ever have been on reddit lol. At best I was lurking on reddit or search up the odd error that popped up on my PC.

For sure. I can’t remember the last time I actually posted or commented on reddit. I would do that thing where sometimes I’d even start to type a reply and then just trash it before posting. Here, I actually feel like contributing.

I had a Reddit account for 10 years and never made a single post, but I actually made a post here so I'm definitely more active here. It'll probably be end up being my only post as more users join Lemmy but I made the post primarily because I wanted more posts to hopefully encourage Lemmy growth.

In Reddit I lurked during five years until I felt confident enough to post again after bad experiences with my two first posts (in a stationery subreddit, nothing too complicated). And I only did it in Spanish subs because they did not fried you with negatives. The Karma thing.

Here I started to post two hours after creating my account.

The social anxiety is much less as the crowds are smaller so posting feels like it's being heard. Feels like I'm actually a part of a conversation

Edit: I forget which account is my main though so my comments are displaced. Which is probably good

Definitely me, was on Reddit for over a decade and I already posted more here.

Yes, definitely. Between so many comments already replying what I was going to say and the high likelihood of being rudely corrected on anything I have to say, reddit is just less fun to interact with.

Over here, people are more likely to respectfully disagree, and it's less crowded, for now.

Definitely, I am sick of big tech CEO's greed.

I feel like there is more drive to interact because it's smaller, we want it to take off, and it feels like I am talking to real ppl and not a karma farming bot.

Yeah. I always felt my comments or posts on Reddit would drown in the noise but Lemmy is still small and I want to contribute to its growth.

I don't know? A little? Can't say for sure. Though for some rather niche subreddits, I haven't found alternatives yet. And there some game-specific subreddits that tie to some fairly niche games, there's no fediverse community for those that I've found yet.

I plan on being more active on Lemmy - Reddit was mostly read-only for me for years, but the smaller community here feels like engaging wouldn't just be screaming into the void.

I'm pretty sure I've commented more often (or at least in the ballpark) on here than in my whole time on Reddit

Absolutely! For once in a long time I'm actually actively creating original content for Lemmy... whereas before, I just sort of accepted how it was.

I have one subreddit (sports) whose user base is either not not aware of, or caring about, the current issues with Reddit. I don't see them migrating, so I'll still be checking in there.

Also have still been checking r/modcoord for the latest news on the protest from the correct side, but that's more of a current events type thing, and I'm more interested in it as far as it pertains to Lemmy's growth and the effects on that, than how it's impacting Reddit.

Outside of those couple of things, I've pretty much been spending my time here on Lemmy since I signed up... I'm very much enjoying the experience here, it feels much more like Reddit used to way back when, before it exploded in bots and astroturfing.

I was a strong user of Reddit for almost a decade, but I already feel at home here and don't have intentions of heavily using Reddit anymore.

Yeah I'm sick of the sanitized sterile nature of corporate run social media. This platform has the ability to grow and change as the users want it to.

Commenting here is more rewarding because you don’t stumble onto a popular thread only to see that it’s already got 3000 other comments and there’s no chance of anyone seeing yours.

Yeah, that's strange because Lemmy actually has less content than Reddit. I don't even lurk any subs I have subscribed, I just sort by new.

It's much better this way than Reddit for me, even though that.

I feel like I get the chance to see interesting posts here before they have 100+ comments much more frequently than reddit, which makes me more likely to comment here since it won’t just get washed away in the sea