No Stupid Questions

Trying. Lemmy needs content and commenters are a big part of Reddit.

I had a Reddit account ~10y ago. I was only a lurker in the days before the exodus. This feels like a real community.

Frist psot! /s

I love that a service that isn't making a buck off of us gets levels of engagement that for-profit social networks would kill for.

This is happening because:

• Novelty, because new is fun. This will go down over time.
• The most passionate users are more likely to be early adopters. More casual users are coming.
• Smaller network means your content is less likely to be covered before. This factor will go down over time.
• Fediverse encourages multiple related communities, which means your specific contributions are more likely to be seen by other users.
• Lack of bots/astroturfing leads to more positive interactions. Bots will likely increase over time.

Therefore, I expect engagement will go down over time, but I am hopeful it will reach a higher point of stability because the fediverse design seems better at getting more varied content seen by its users, and it makes it harder for a small group of people or posts to dominate the discussion space.

PS: Anybody know how to add a space after the last bullet in a list?

I've become a more avid shitposter.

Not much yet but been lurking a fuck ton. It was a lot easier then I thought it was gonna be getting use to this. I didn't even had to do what I did when I first joined reddit! I had a damn Digg UI addon for Reddit for like 2 months til I settled on old.reddit.

I rarely posted on Reddit, mostly because I would try to find a conversation already in progress instead of making my own post. Also, my posts rarely caught that much traction. I commented a lot more frequently, several times a week. I'm still fairly infrequent, mostly because in my early internet years I posted A LOT of cringe on Facebook/Myspace so I tend to be a little more measured in my internet footprint now.

It's nice because I always wondered what it was like being one of the early redditors (we've all seen those "when everything was better back in my days" comments), and it's as if I got chance at a magic Internet Reset button. Feeling that excitement that first got me into reddit, as I'm browsing and learning about the fediverse. Love it.

It's hard to get noticed on Reddit (unless you make a typo!)

Unless you're the first to post on a new topic that goes on to be popular, then no matter what you say you get read and gain karma. If you comment on something a few hours old, nobody ever reads it.

You're one voice in a city. Whereas here, we're a village. Less anonymous, friendlier, easier to get talking to your neighbour.

With much smaller user base, one can actually get their posts/replies seen. Big difference.

Not shouting into a tornado helps a great deal.

I think I find myself participating more generally, now that I’m not necessarily frequenting specific subreddits

definitely, felling kinda social lately

I feel the need to contribute so the community continues to thrive.

https://www.reactiongifs.us/im-doing-my-part-starship-troopers/

I think it helps that the community vibe is completely different here. On some reddit subs your posts would get automatically removed for the most arbitrary reasons, and that really discouraged people from participating. Here I haven't encountered anything like that yet and most of the people that do participate have been super cool too.

I think smaller communities are more inviting. For me it's a combination of wanting Lemmy to succeed, now that Reddit has begun it's downward spiral, and feeling more involved in communities. Though I have only just created my account, so only time will tell if I continue to be active.

Just doing my part to test the system. See what clicks, maybe it'll get better with my humble reply, one at a time

Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.

I've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?

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.

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.

Well when your on a growing app it's not just your right to post, it's your duty!

i feel less desire to troll here. Just feels mean and horrible.

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.

Aye, folks here are a lot friendlier so tis easier to post!

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 :)

I am more of a sarcastic commenter. Made a couple of posts though. However, I am upvoting a lot more stuff here as I never really upvoted posts on that other site that hates 3rd party stuff. I want to make sure this stuff actually works and people don’t go crawling back to that site that makes you Spez out.

It's nice to post in a place that has enthusiasm, rather than a place that's become a rote content-mill