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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.

I certainly have.

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 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.

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 :)

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.

Agreed. I've been posting way more frequently than in Reddit. Although admittedly, the more engaging topics are there. But we're barely a month into rexxit so the leaps this platform have made is impressive enough.

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.

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.

We all should. That's how we turn this platform successful over reddit. I've also noticed communities don't suck as much (for now), I could be wrong but I don't seem to see so much toxicity like I do on reddit nowadays

Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.

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.

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

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 ;)

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

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

Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise

If anything, the opposite.

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

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.

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.

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.

The interactions feel more authentic here. Sometimes I would read a single comment chain where multiple people were talking about separate subjects and somehow still having a conversation. It made my head hurt.

Yeah, definitely engaging way more than before. People are nicer here.

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

Agreed. Maybe it's because aside from such a welcoming community, a lot of us shared this collective experience coming from Reddit. It oddly feels at home here.

I don't know if it's just me but it reminds me of early Reddit, without all the Karma whoring