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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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[–] CupDock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

To some extent, yeah. It feels like a more tight-nit community here.

[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

barely, but I'm trying

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.

[–] 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.

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

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

[–] 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

[–] Gbagginsthe3rd@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I’m so glad to finally join! Signup was tricky and finally got Memmy working for ios. Happy days

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

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

[–] 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

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

Yeah. Im getting very active here.

[–] G1ZMO_DRAG0N@sh.itjust.works 1 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

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

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

[–] 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.

[–] 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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[–] 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.

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

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.

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

I'd mostly comment on shitposts, and there's less here so I feel like I comment less

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

Looking forward to becoming active in the community

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

Yup, way more active. I used to mainly lurk on reddit. Now I'm commenting more and have actually posted a couple of times.

[–] 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.

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