Yeah, I mean, I'm not the most active, but I made a sublemmy (I'm still not sure about the naming convention here lol) and that's something I never did on Reddit, because everything was usually already there in some form. I also did it to contribute, because I know that us being active actually counts for something. On Reddit I could go months without posting or commenting. So yes, I'm definitely more active and it feels like you are actually engaging with other people and not just consuming content.
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I’m making myself be active here. I’m learning to build my own lemmy instance on a VPS.
I want there to be a sea change in social media. I want an authentic intellectual conversation. I was in college during the usenet era and found it easy to find mind expanding stuff there with a minimum of toxicity.
My hope is the community and software mature steadily together until it is ready to handle a significant influx.
Let’s not reward toxicity. We need to steer the conversation and the software development to reward quality engagement over quantity.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about hosting your own instance. I'm by no means an expert, but it would appear that I have successfully deployed my own.
I think I'm about as active here as I was on Reddit. Always was more of a reader.
barely, but I'm trying
Undoubtedly! I was always more of a lurker, but I think I've posted as many comments here in the last couple of weeks as I did in 11 years of Reddit... Lemmy is, somehow, much more inviting.
Yeah. Im getting very active here.
More active here, i never got onto the idea of reddit, always made me uncomfortable for some reason.
I did use 3rd party apps like slide or infinity to read reddit posts and follow sibreddits i liked.
Equally. Try to get used to this and to subscribe to topics I follow.
Absolutely.
I’m so glad to finally join! Signup was tricky and finally got Memmy working for ios. Happy days
I’m trying to be more active. It doesn’t come naturally as I’m generally a lurker. Good vibes help though
I am definitely less active on Reddit, to the point of absence from posting/commenting. However, I am not very active here either. I have encouraged others on Mastodon to join Lemmy but I acknowledge that it's not as mature as a Reddit replacement, as Mastodon is as a twitter replacement. Definitely both systems are getting better and hopefully, we can move our social networking to the fediverse 100% by 2024.
Yes, by far. I wouldn’t really comment on Reddit. Here I do
My reddit account was soft locked for months barring me from any interaction, just lurk.
I never fixed it because i was wasting to many hours on debates. Yesterday i told my wife i was going to come downstairs after finishing my reply. It took 30minuts.
Lemmy is great and i love interacting with it but honestly i wouldn’t mind a bot that helps me to stop now and then. This cant be good for my mental health in the long run otherwise.
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I'm not very active yet as there are only a few subs that match. Once there are more...
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Yes. I gradually disengaged over the years. I will become less active once the pump is primed. Perhaps turn to more technical aspects, as maintaining my own instance. Or be more offline in general.
I have been posting more than I ever had on Reddit. Mostly because I got my news from Reddit, but over here I have to bring the news to Lemmy.
I'd mostly comment on shitposts, and there's less here so I feel like I comment less
So far trying to find my old communities I would run with, can’t seem to find all of them.
I did once find /r/FeedTheBeast on lemmy but no longer can find it on here!
Once I get my rotation I will def use this way more.
Oh yeah, I was telling my wife this exact thing. I feel like I can comment and post way more than I used to and get in discussions cause my comments won't be drowned out as much and when I do see a post it doesn't already have 3k comments on it already like in reddit. A lot more intelligent conversation too which is a nice change.
Edit: sorry about the second comment, my instance isn't updated and is having issues. Tried deleting the second comment but it won't let me lol
To some extent, yeah. It feels like a more tight-nit community here.
I've been surfing more on Lemmy than on Reddit now, but that being said, the niche subs that I was "most active in" are just not available/big enough in any of the Lemmy instances I've found, so I end up not really commenting much here compared to on Reddit.
Yes.
Yup, way more active. I used to mainly lurk on reddit. Now I'm commenting more and have actually posted a couple of times.
100% Lemmy content is just so much more up my alley