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

I certainly do! Reddit was just too loud in every way.

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

Just started today, but as my reddit activity is going down to zero …. Yes lol

[–] deathbypizza@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Have recently made the jump from Reddit. With a brilliant 3rd party app - go figure!! I expect to be more active here.

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[–] Boot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I’m trying to be more active. It doesn’t come naturally as I’m generally a lurker. Good vibes help though

[–] webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 wouldn’t 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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[–] Mythril@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] ThaijsClan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] ddtfrog@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

So far trying to find my old communities I would run with, can’t 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.

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Im getting very active here.

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a lot more active then I was on Reddit.

I was very active in the subs of the games I play (I'm even r/CSRRacing2 mod) when I started there, but I'm getting tired of the hate, stupidity,...

[–] tom@lmmy.tvdl.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, by far. I wouldn’t really comment on Reddit. Here I do

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, absolutely. I'm still not sure if it's because the whole community is smaller here, the people are better, no Karma competition, or a combination of all the above

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

no Karma competition

EDIT: THANKS FOR THE DOWNVOTES YOU IDIOTS.

EDIT 2: LMAO LIKE I CARE ABOUT DOWNVOTES, KEEP THEM COMING

EDIT 3: YOUR DOWNVOTES FUEL ME

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It's always funny, because they will be at -1 and cry like they don't care, but then delete the comment because they want it to stop lmao.

[–] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

100% Lemmy content is just so much more up my alley

[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MementoMori@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never posted or commented on Reddit. Trying to get in the habit here. This community seems like a better one to be involved in.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I feel no difference, I still comment as much as on reddit with the difference that people are more open here and more welcome.

[–] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] IrateKnight@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to becoming active in the community

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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