feels weird right now, but I'm starting to get used to it
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100% Lemmy content is just so much more up my alley
Iβm trying to be more active. It doesnβt come naturally as Iβm generally a lurker. Good vibes help though
My reddit account was soft locked for months barring me from any interaction, just lurk.
I never fixed it because i was wasting to many hours on debates. Yesterday i told my wife i was going to come downstairs after finishing my reply. It took 30minuts.
Lemmy is great and i love interacting with it but honestly i wouldnβt mind a bot that helps me to stop now and then. This cant be good for my mental health in the long run otherwise.
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I am definitely less active on Reddit, to the point of absence from posting/commenting. However, I am not very active here either. I have encouraged others on Mastodon to join Lemmy but I acknowledge that it's not as mature as a Reddit replacement, as Mastodon is as a twitter replacement. Definitely both systems are getting better and hopefully, we can move our social networking to the fediverse 100% by 2024.
Absolutely! There's some feeling of ownership now that I can host an instance of my own - I want this platform to succeed, I want to give something back to the open source community, even if it's only a small server.
I have been posting more than I ever had on Reddit. Mostly because I got my news from Reddit, but over here I have to bring the news to Lemmy.
I'd mostly comment on shitposts, and there's less here so I feel like I comment less
Looking forward to becoming active in the community
barely, but I'm trying
Yes, I am significantly more active here than I was on Reddit (at least recently, my decline on posting/commenting on Reddit started a few years ago).
Yes. I gradually disengaged over the years. I will become less active once the pump is primed. Perhaps turn to more technical aspects, as maintaining my own instance. Or be more offline in general.
I've been surfing more on Lemmy than on Reddit now, but that being said, the niche subs that I was "most active in" are just not available/big enough in any of the Lemmy instances I've found, so I end up not really commenting much here compared to on Reddit.
Nah. Thankfully my mindless scrolling time has taken a dive, which is an issue I had been meaning to address regardless.
To some extent, yeah. It feels like a more tight-nit community here.
More active here, i never got onto the idea of reddit, always made me uncomfortable for some reason.
I did use 3rd party apps like slide or infinity to read reddit posts and follow sibreddits i liked.
Yes.
I feel no difference, I still comment as much as on reddit with the difference that people are more open here and more welcome.
Yup, way more active. I used to mainly lurk on reddit. Now I'm commenting more and have actually posted a couple of times.
Yeah, I mean, I'm not the most active, but I made a sublemmy (I'm still not sure about the naming convention here lol) and that's something I never did on Reddit, because everything was usually already there in some form. I also did it to contribute, because I know that us being active actually counts for something. On Reddit I could go months without posting or commenting. So yes, I'm definitely more active and it feels like you are actually engaging with other people and not just consuming content.
Absolutely.
I never posted on Reddit. Every time I did it was a bad time. I could post the most innocuous thing imaginable (The sky is blue. Water is wet), and without fail have at least a few people telling me I was stupid, naive, woke, a Nazi, whatever. There is a ton of extremist energy around here too, but the radical left is much easier for me to stomach than the radical right.
Iβm so glad to finally join! Signup was tricky and finally got Memmy working for ios. Happy days
Equally. Try to get used to this and to subscribe to topics I follow.
Oh yeah, I was telling my wife this exact thing. I feel like I can comment and post way more than I used to and get in discussions cause my comments won't be drowned out as much and when I do see a post it doesn't already have 3k comments on it already like in reddit. A lot more intelligent conversation too which is a nice change.
Edit: sorry about the second comment, my instance isn't updated and is having issues. Tried deleting the second comment but it won't let me lol