Depends, I was mainly active on small subreddits that were focused on things I was interested in. Here those small subs don't exist yet (or are very inactive), but the lower overall user count means I'm interacting with a lot more communities than I would on reddit.
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Most of my Reddit commenting was done on threads for people looking for advice in one of my hobbies. I generally had a good experience giving feedback here since most people in the subreddit were level headed. Sometimes you got the occasional asshole parroting the usual online "best way to do something" that goes against some people's actual real life experience that is being shared.
I didn't really make any meaningful (non joke) comments outside of this subreddit since I didn't feel like getting some dick in my notifications trying to start a fight over whatever I posted. Sometimes I didn't mind battling the dicks in the hobby subreddit since people lurking can actually learn or get a different perspective from "No, you shouldn't take what's in a listicle as fact. Here is my experience with this."
My level of activity on Reddit has been wanting. I was / am still fairly active in some niche subs, but I used to be pretty active in AskReddit, askmen, and several other spaces.
I've made a concerted effort to be more active here, and it feels nice! Feels a lot more human
I'm not there yet, although I did a lot on Reddit
Yes, I didn't have an account and I always browsed via a proxy (Teddit). I didn't want to be manipulated by the algorithm.
Agreed - stopped posting and sharing on Reddit a while ago. I engage more and find this place more engaging. Itβs good!
Oh for sure. It definitely seems like people are more level-headed over here, and are less likely to find the most nitpick-y thing to jump into an argument with you over.
(Which, to clarify, I don't mean someone correcting information I've posted - of course, if I've posted something incorrect I'd like to know - but even then, there is always a tactful way to go about doing so)
I've never been much of a poster (not even 2 posts/yr for the almost dozen years I've had a reddit habit), but I was a regular commenter in various specific-interest subs.
I am, as a rule, no longer contributing content to Reddit, since they've made it clear they plan to finish their transition from "hosting communities" to "extracting value from users." Frankly, it's not as much of an imposition as I feared, because many of those communities seem to be broadly taking the same attitude.
I'm actively trying to comment heavily here to to try to help establish communities. If I had a little more free time I'd do some posting and/or try to help spin some successor communities for my interests.
Honestly, I'm trying to be more active in here. The whole defederation thing going around has me confused about where my account lives and replicating what's on it. Makes it hard to stay active if I don't know what's going to happen haha
I hear ya. Thats why i just setup my own instance....
I'm not sure it matters more TBH... but I basically stopped Reddit for 2 days, and now just get drawn back to read the occasional post - but don't bother commenting.
With the downtick in Reddit, I remembered that I hadn't read a book for a month or two, so I headed over to Annies Archive and grabbed a bunch to add to my Kindle...
So I now downloaded 3 versions of 'Great Expectations' and am reading that book before watching them - but also have "Welcome to the MonkeyHouse" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Book Thief" grabbed from Annie's Archive.
Basically now I'm spending less than half the time on net than I was before.
Considering I am totally inactive on Reddit now, yes.
Only reason I visit reddit now is to see how the dumpster fire is going
1000%!
I actually created a community for a hobby of mine, and have been trying to post and comment more.
Yes because:
- I want to see it take off and want to do my bit
- It feels like a more chilled environment in which to participate
Yes, definitely. Maybe I feel like my contributions matter more since we are all trying to make this a viable platform? I dunno, but it's definitely more fun interacting here than on reddit.
Iβm making myself be active here. Iβm 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.
Letβs 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.
I certainly do! Reddit was just too loud in every way.
Just started today, but as my reddit activity is going down to zero β¦. Yes lol
Yes, by far. I wouldnβt really comment on Reddit. Here I do
I'm not very active yet as there are only a few subs that match. Once there are more...
So far trying to find my old communities I would run with, canβt 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.