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When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.

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[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed - stopped posting and sharing on Reddit a while ago. I engage more and find this place more engaging. It’s good!

[–] Uriel238@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Considering I am totally inactive on Reddit now, yes.

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes because:

  1. I want to see it take off and want to do my bit
  2. It feels like a more chilled environment in which to participate
[–] Crylos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1000%!

I actually created a community for a hobby of mine, and have been trying to post and comment more.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Tip for when Lemmy becomes bigger: Find a niche community that's big enough you get seen, but small enough you get noticed.

[–] BumpingFuglies@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I was a lurker on Reddit. I had less than 500 Karma when I deleted my 12-year-old account a couple weeks ago.

I've already been more active on Lemmy than I was my entire time on Reddit. Everything here just feels more genuine.

[–] shemishtamesh@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

yes, never had a reddit account.

[–] amoroso@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, to put my money where my mouth is.

In early 2022, a few months prior to the first rumors Elon Musk might acquire Twitter, I left both Twitter and Reddit for the Fediverse, making it a point to contribute a tiny bit of the content and interaction that help platforms reach critical mass.

In case you're wondering, I left Twitter because the algorithms had made me essentially invisible. There was no point posting or interacting there.

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yea. Literally every reddit comment I posted resulted in someone replying to me in a toxic way.

I've only blocked one person on lemmy and that's because they were replying to me in a toxic manner. That's the first reply I've had that's toxic, and I nipped it in the bud. I don't care to have fighting matches back and forth.

Have you noticed if you go to Reddit and click on any thread, usually within the first comment thread, someone will be hating on another person? Fuck that.

I'd honestly suggest everyone block anyone who is being toxic. Not to mention, others don't want to see your drama while looking through comments.

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[–] tr00st@lemmy.tr00st.co.uk 2 points 1 year ago

In the 13 years I've had a Reddit account, I made 40 comments, and 4 posts.

In the 15 days I've had a Lemmy account, I've made 28 comments and 1 post.

Now I wouldn't want to be one for extrapolating from data of different timescales, but...

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. Smaller community, and generally more intelligent, or at least more capable of having a meaningful discussion.

I think it's something that happens when you throw a larger group of people together, like reddit, where people act a bit different ime

Even I am less toxic, and more positive. Something about reddit messed that up.

Atp, I'm here more for discourse than any specific content, and that's something I really missed about social media.

I used to be pretty active on Reddit and I kinda became more and more "sour" and unfriendly over there, because the whole community just dragged me down for some reason.

Here, it's like a breath of fresh air and most people are actually quite nice. Topics have finally become more interesting and there's no such thing as an echochamber. Critical thinking seems to be possible here, as well.

So yes, I became way more active again since I'm on Lemmy. Also, I host my own instance and I put a lot of effort into it, so I want it to be in good standing with other instances. Participating in friendly conversations will help with that.

[–] PAPPP@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

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[–] G1ZMO_DRAG0N@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I hear ya. Thats why i just setup my own instance....

[–] Pyrux@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Only reason I visit reddit now is to see how the dumpster fire is going

[–] heliumlake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m making myself be active here. I’m 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.

Let’s not reward toxicity. We need to steer the conversation and the software development to reward quality engagement over quantity.

[–] john12@lemmy.sbs 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MazeMouse@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I think I'm about as active here as I was on Reddit. Always was more of a reader.

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