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I certainly have.

Well when your on a growing app it's not just your right to post, it's your duty!

Yeah, I found this to be true. I’m a lurker on reddit but a poster on lemmy. I am also actively brainstorming of more topics to create to help engagement in lemmy. I guess it’s because most of us want to see this to succeed and make it a viable competitor (and eventual replacement as the defacto front page of the internet) to reddit.

I had Reddit for almost 10 years, yet in the <1 month that I've started using alternatives I've already posted/commented more. Not sure why it it feels more enjoyable engaging in discusison on the Reddit alternatives, but it's probably the lower user levels creating a nicer environment.

Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.

I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times

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

Yeah, -- with Lemmy being a smaller community it's much more interactive than just commenting/posting and it being buried. last time I posted/commented on reddit was like around 3-4 years ago, so always been a lurker, going to change now with Lemmy.

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.

I really like the default active sorting keeping discussions in older threads alive for longer. The comment sorting also makes it easier to join discussions later on :)

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

I am more of a sarcastic commenter. Made a couple of posts though. However, I am upvoting a lot more stuff here as I never really upvoted posts on that other site that hates 3rd party stuff. I want to make sure this stuff actually works and people don’t go crawling back to that site that makes you Spez out.

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.

I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.

I have already written more comments here than I ever did on reddit. I want lemmy to succeed and it needs even us lurkers to do that. It ain't much--but I am commenting ;)

Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.

Yeah, I've been posting a lot more on the websites I've switched to. Just want to help build the community, ya know?

Posting and commenting on Lemmy feels a lot better, like a breath of fresh air. The last few years on Reddit got progressively more combative as certain types of people found their soap box there. Literally any comment could turn into a toxic political spitting match when the topic had nothing to do with politics. Probably a good mix of trolls and bots in there to incite the toxicity among the actual people who bought it. It’s amazing how many people actively defend Reddit’s ability to milk their user base and I think that says a lot about the community too.

Also always feels easier to get in on the ground floor of a new community before things are settled. Things get clique-y and stale after a long while. I think most people who have played an MMO (or other mostly online game) from launch versus playing an MMO after it’s been established a while can relate to that feeling.

I just hope we see more of the niche communities come over. A number of smaller communities decided to go to Discord only, which is a fine chat platform but that’s not a Reddit or forum replacement.

I didn't make posts all that often on reddit, but I definitely commented a fair amount. The problem I've got with lemmy right now is there's not as much discussion about stuff I'm interested in, so I'm mainly just looking at All instead of keeping to my subscribed communities.

I think lemmy.world (or other lemmy instances you are ok of) is the place for me to learn how to communicate with others.

Before then, I never post and comment anything on Facebook and Twitter. Now I comment a lot here.

In a way I feel kind of responsible to be more active to promote the community more. I want this to succeed and it won't without content, so I probably will end up being a lot more active than I used to be on reddit too

Same, long-time reddit lurker here. I have posted more on Lemmy than I've posted on reddit in years.

I just joined today and will always stay a lurker but I've mainly noticed a difference in the type of comment I feel prompted to make. On Reddit I mostly gave advice to other people, because you or any opinions were never going to get noticed anywhere else anyway (unless you were lucky, I guess), the community here right now is a lot more casual and so are my replies.

I think that as a result of the size of reddit, it was unlikely to have engagement when you commented, and it was common to get unkind engagement if it did happen. It’s nice to have a fresh start, but since there’s less of us, it is also a much more intimate experience.

If anything, the opposite.

The algorithm knew me. Losing the algorithm is like losing a friend... the dickhead that always asked for money.