• @[email protected]
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    182 years ago

    I’ve actually felt like contributing here. It’s been 11 years on reddit for me and I made 5 posts and a handful of comments in that time.

    • Pastor Haggis
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      32 years ago

      I commented on reddit a lot but I do feel the need to be more involved here because I want to help build up the community. That said, I do want to be more careful about how I use my account. Avoid getting into discourse when I can, try not to argue with people as much.

      I feel like I can be healthier on Lemmy if I go into it with a different mindset, and without Reddit’s dogshit algorithm, it might make it easier.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      I used that powerdelete script last night and turns out I made one singular post on reddit in 9 years of use, when DDLC recently released: Meme

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Yeah even though I’m still just as uncomfortable making posts and will only do it if really needed, I have felt much more able to comment on Lemmy.

      Hopefully my confidence will continue to improve with time

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I made 2 posts on Reddit, one was a meme about my friend jumping over me to see my username, the other was some random text post. Thousands of comments though

        It’s just not in my nature… So much so that I’m trying to release a Lemmy app tonight, and I just remembered I haven’t started on the ability to post…

        Everything else came easy to me - you should be able to click on anything, everything should stay where you left it… But I have no idea how people want to post. I should probably just do it now before I overthink it

  • @[email protected]
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    02 years ago

    I think there’s a greater chance of lemmy users interacting rather than just lurking because of the requirement of posting or commenting to be counted as active which should in turn help grow the community

      • @[email protected]
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        02 years ago

        a question remain - while I think the requirement to engage to be counted as active will certainly increase engagement generally - will it lead to “quality” content and comments? not that I currently know exactly how you quantify quality

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          That’s a good question, and probably not. I figure growth won’t increase the proportion of quality comments, but it will undoubtedly increase the frequency. Hopefully the voting system will cause low quality comments to drift away from what we tend to see.

          Something I take away from forums is that user volume is incredibly impactful, even if most is low quality. As long as there is something to scrape off the top, I think I’ll be satisfied. Obviously this misses some nuance but I think it works as a rule of thumb, especially to grow incredibly small niche communities that otherwise won’t exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Is there a reason why I should care if my account is active or not? Genuine question I just made my account two days ago

  • @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    I’m more motivated to participate when there’s fewer comments. On Reddit I often refrained from commenting when I noticed the other commenters already covered the point I wanted to make.

    • Ignacio [he/him]
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      62 years ago

      Don’t forget karma whoring, where your comments will be invisible to the algorithm and you seem to talk to an empty wall, while one liners and easy jokes are at the top.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      Same here. Even subs (instances? communities? still figuring out the lingo, sorry) are so quiet I’m even posting actual posts. Or on news posts, I have a question about the content where on reddit someone will have already asked and I can just see what responses or vitriol they got.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Or someone with the same opinion as yours will start argue with you because you said it in a different way that they don’t agree with.

  • mizu
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    282 years ago
    1. A lot of lurkers from Reddit, myself included, actually don’t lurk on Lemmy.

    2. Lemmy will only improve if the lurkers stopped lurking.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    Was always just lurking on Reddit, maybe had one comment or so. For some reason, when moving over here, I’ve been enjoying this so much, I’m no longer just a lurker.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      yeah i feel so much more motivated to contribute to new communities that i’d like to see grow and thrive