Yep!
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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I’m definitely doing better but nothing crazy like multiple times a day😳 good on you for providing content
I've always been a lurker and probably always will be. But until there's enough content to be lurked we all should do our part in creating the content and letting this whole site grow.
It’s just you
Nah, but I'm definitely a more avid commenter!
That may or may not be a good thing.
Me too!
Yeah, my reddit comment numbers had already been significantly declining by the time all this API stuff came around, even getting as low as a few a month
I honestly find I'm doing it less. Maybe I just have to find the right communities.
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I've been trying to kickstart four communities because apparently I'm a masochist, but I've posted more in the last month than I did in the last 10 years on reddit. It reminds me a lot of my first couple of years on reddit (circa 2010/2011) and then my posting died off because you'd either get drowned out by the noise (hundreds or thousands of comments) or ignored in favour of a one liner joke.
I've seen a lot of people comparing Lemmy to early reddit, and I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel like there's one important distinction between the two. Even early reddit was driven by karma. There just wasn't as much people >10 years ago. I find the lack of karma on Lemmy refreshing. How it's gone back to the old forum way of just counting the number of posts is fantastic. It's a weird habit to break out of though because part of me still wants to go "I got no upvotes, time to delete" or "I'm getting downvotes, better delete my post".
Nah, I've actually posted less on lemmy so far
Same! I've posted more this week than I have in the last 10 years on Reddit. I feel like I can actually join a real discussion with real people here. Posts aren't filled with 500 bot comments 5 minutes after being posted and my comments aren't auto-removed because I don't meet some random requirement for posting in that sub or not having enough karma or whatever.
I also signed up on a few different instances while checking things out and I've kinda created different themes for myself. It's been helping me keep track of discussions better having all my politics discussions on one instance, local and sports stuff in another, and general scrolling/random in another.
I've come to start being more active too. I'm still trying to learn the ropes on posting, image sizes, etc. So far so good. Thank you Lemmy for getting me out of my (lurker) shell. I was active on the big R, but not as active as I am turning out to be on this platform.
I'm not posting more... but I'm not posting less, either. Which means the discussions here - despite the smaller population, less stable servers & apps, and less curated communities - is just as engaging as what reddit had to offer at its "peak."
Posting once or twice a day means you're posting (on average) 273x as much as you would on Reddit. That's a huge difference! 273x more posting would mean 273x more posts from people like you. (Of course, this is pretty optimistic).
I was on reddit for almost 15 years and i mostly just commented. I posted maybe 5 or 6 times at most. Been on lemmy for 2 days and im already at 3 (shitposts).
I was banned from reddit for averting a ban so that's my engagement, before that I would post often on Reddit.
If anyone is curious why I was banned I argued in some conservative subreddit and was muted by a shitty mod who I called a bad name and that was enough to be banned, getting busted on a different account resulted in a heavier ban.
So fuck Reddit
I'm posting some things that I would've normally just googled to do my part.
Is anybody having some weird language not allowed glitch?
definitely find smaller sites like lemmy easier to post on since its much easier to repeat yourself on reddit and perhaps more modded so i refrain from saying a lot of stuff?
no seriously it's so much more engaging and chill than Reddit , you don't have to deal with karma whores etc etc... Love it here
It's a bit ironic that I've seen this exact same post about three times already. Apparently you're the only one posting stuff.
Or maybe I don't know how Lemmy works.
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Just you. I comment the same amount I always have, omaybe slightly less.
I never even had an account on reddit but on lemmy i post shit ?