Lemmy

I think the presently smaller user base makes it easier to feel comfortable posting and talking, plus I feel as if many could be motivated to participate more because of the ideals the community upholds through FOSS. It certainly feels good to post here, a more guilt free experience.

I’m doing my part! After killing my 11 year old Reddit account

So far I am loving that the communities I've subscribed to on Lemmy are not only interactive, but that the people interactive are genuinely contributing discussion and perspective! It's sooo refreshing. I fucking love it.

As we get more people joining I'm sure that will slowly change; if Lemmy gets easier for people to join then it will change. If Reddit goes down completely it will definitely change: most casual redditors probably won't move unless Reddit itself no longer has the content they want.

But right now? Ahh... I'm enjoying Lemmy more than I have Reddit in well over a year.

Not just Lemmy as a Reddit alternative, but I've fallen in love with the Fediverse in general. It's kind of how I always imagined social media to be like, though it still has a ways to go and has been held back because "mainstream" platforms have monopolized users and power. I definitely want to be more active here.

Yes, people who are leaving reddit are making Lemmy more active which was the only missing thing to make me delete reddit entirely. Before that it was too slow to get new content but now it is alright, thanx to reddit, long life to lemmy .

I’ve always lurked on Reddit but I’ll try my best to comment more

Reddit refugee here! Hope to see Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse become super popular down the line!

I have no idea what I'm doing

I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)

I've just created !board_games@lemmy.ca and !tabletop_rpgs@lemmy.ca, does that count? :P

I'll try my best not to be such a lurker. A fresh start on here might be what I need to get me out of my comfort zone.

Another lurker here. Been well over a decade and this is the first time I feel like contributing again. Really hope the fediverse catches on this time.

wildly hits keys on the keyboard

Hello everyone. This is literally the first thing I'm clicking on after registering

I'll try my best 😅

Reporting for duty!

well this felt like a personal callout but i will try a little to do this, and to be active as a user rather than a lurker

I've always been a lurker on the other site but I think I'll be much more active on here!

Completely agree! I was a lurker on Reddit. I’m trying to be more active here. It seems less intimidating than Reddit.

I couldn’t agree more!

In effort to try to add value to posting, I found a mobile app for iPhone. It’s clearly in beta. I’m not associated with them at all, and I hope they don’t mind me posting the results of my Brave search.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Alright sir, I shall upvote and comment whenever I feel I have something useful to add!

Hey now, I lurked on Reddit for years and it grew to be a huge success. I'm ready to repeat this bold strategy!

Does posting and replying from another server count as "not lurking"?

Will do

Trying hard! What I'd need is a browser extension (Firefox) that just sends me to the fediverse as soon as I type "old.reddit.com" into the address bar to kill some time. Old habits die hard.

Me not lurking

One thing that might keep people off is how communities are created/duplicated on Lemmy. I mean you can have the exact same community but on different instances. Then you start asking yourself which one should I join? or perhaps both? This definitely will confuse people.

Yeah I keep telling myself to comment. It really doesn't come naturally to me after years of lurking.

I joined Lemmy today. I've been getting into Mastodon recently as well and I have to say the comfy feeling I'm getting from the governance resiliency of FOSS and federated spaces(FFOSS?) is wonderful. This has the same feeling as when I first tried GNU/Linux so many years ago. :D

This is probably the first-ever post to surpass 1,000 upvotes.

I used to pretty much just lurk when I used reddit, I'd maybe post a comment every few months, but really I'd just lurk. I've easily past the number of posts and comments I ever made to reddit during the many years of using it daily. Initially I wanted to make an effort for Lemmy to succeed, obviously it has less people so as your post is suggesting, I was trying to do my part. I found I really enjoy posting here though, the community is really great.

I prefer to type my response then delete it without submitting.

Bro literally triggered lurkers

More than that, spread the word around. Help people register. If Reddit users don't know that lemmy exists no one will use it. We have to get more people AWARE.