No Stupid Questions

Yes all my comments are non relevant nonsense but I'm having fun.

I feel the need to contribute so the community continues to thrive.

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Echoing what’s already been said here but just voicing that the same is true for me. It feels people actually read and engage with my posts, and what I have to say won’t be drowned out by the masses.

Part of the reason I think it’s ok to have slight barrier to entry that the fediverse has in general.

I've become a more avid shitposter.

It could be the "shiny new thing" syndrome, the majority of people here (me included) might be just riding the "high" of joining in. Gotta wait and see how we'll be in 3+ months

Not really... yet. While I enjoy the memes and stuff I miss my smaller niche communities. While some subs the I was part of on reddit were created over here it seems that they are pretty dead and not even the creators/mods care about them. At the moment I don't have the time and energy to build something up from the ground... but I'm gonna stay and do my part!

I spent years on Apollo and never even made an account, would just infinite scroll at work. Made an account on Lemmy and already feel like I’m more engaged

Not shouting into a tornado helps a great deal.

I've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?

I think smaller communities are more inviting. For me it's a combination of wanting Lemmy to succeed, now that Reddit has begun it's downward spiral, and feeling more involved in communities. Though I have only just created my account, so only time will tell if I continue to be active.

I think I find myself participating more generally, now that I’m not necessarily frequenting specific subreddits

I rarely posted on Reddit, mostly because I would try to find a conversation already in progress instead of making my own post. Also, my posts rarely caught that much traction. I commented a lot more frequently, several times a week. I'm still fairly infrequent, mostly because in my early internet years I posted A LOT of cringe on Facebook/Myspace so I tend to be a little more measured in my internet footprint now.

Aye, folks here are a lot friendlier so tis easier to post!

I think it helps that the community vibe is completely different here. On some reddit subs your posts would get automatically removed for the most arbitrary reasons, and that really discouraged people from participating. Here I haven't encountered anything like that yet and most of the people that do participate have been super cool too.

Not much yet but been lurking a fuck ton. It was a lot easier then I thought it was gonna be getting use to this. I didn't even had to do what I did when I first joined reddit! I had a damn Digg UI addon for Reddit for like 2 months til I settled on old.reddit.

definitely, felling kinda social lately

With much smaller user base, one can actually get their posts/replies seen. Big difference.

It's nice to post in a place that has enthusiasm, rather than a place that's become a rote content-mill

I lurked reddit for more than a decade and maybe posted 5 times. I hit that my first day here I think. Not sure what the difference is... I guess the smaller user base makes me feel like I can actually engage in a conversation with someone rather than just have my post disappear into the thousands already on a post

Absolutely, I feel closer to the community here on lemmy.

yeah people have mentioned already I've seen as a reason. This is because of active/hot, where on reddit the top comment was top because it was highest voted, there's something different going on with sorting here.

Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.

i feel less desire to troll here. Just feels mean and horrible.

Reddit mods censored a lot of content both posts and comments. That was part of the reason reddit was not a positive experience and became a echo chamber. Lemmy appears to be more like the old internet where there were a diverse community of ideas and views.

Gotta help seed the content so newcomers have something to look at. I've been uploading game clips and the like to the relevant ~~subreddits~~ communities (wow, I really just did make this mistake without thinking and only went back to correct it minutes later; shows how used I am to the old place) to help build the initial content base.

That, and the place genuinely does seem just a bit friendlier than Reddit. That may change when the number of users gets bigger, but I'm at least enjoying it for now.

I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.

Was a lurker on most subreddits, a lot of things I wanted to comment likely had been said so I would just upvote them. Whilst right now (still getting my head round the instances), I feel more inclined to comment when there are low comment volumes.

I think actually feeling like you are being seen is a big factor for me. I felt buried in Reddit and so far this community just feels right. I really do hope it stays that way.