Maybe because we all want this to work out and be a thing.
Yes, I never felt like commenting when there were hundreds of previous comments. Here, with just a few comments, it feel like it an actual contribution, not a drop in the ocean. I also spend more time reading each comment.
And even if a post has many comments on here you still get interaction because they sort by “Hot” by default (at least on kbin)
I think this is a big part of it. On the other site you’d really have to be early on a popular post, otherwise there’d already be thousands of comments and it didn’t feel worth the effort.
Yep same here. I’d usually browse ‘all’ on reddit and everything that could be said had already been said in the comments. So it kind of felt what’s the point.
It’s made me realise that I don’t want Lemmy to become a reddit clone for this reason. If it gets too big it’ll be the same issue.
Lemmy is growing very, very quickly but I still feel like there’s more interaction between actual humans here and not some stupid karma farming bots. I came over here before the Reddit civil war started and there’s been more and more content every day without it feeling contrived. I’m quite fond of Lemmy at this point.
Content felt like it exploded just over the past couple of days. The coverage of world news events has been excellent. Memes have homes. It has been nice.
The breath of fresh air has generally been maturity in a lot of posts. Reddit felt like junior high deduction skills most of the time. I don’t expect it to last, but it makes me engage more.
It really has. The first week or so was a bit discouraging but Lemmy has exploded recently. I’m extremely pleased that I can get my world news and my poop jokes in one place again. I scrubbed my Reddit comments and deleted my account much like Cortés burned his ships.
Lemmy feels like real people. Reddit was just overrun by bots and astroturfing. The more time I spend here the more I realize that.
- The top 3 most upvoted comments aren’t unfunny puns.
- This feels mor elike a ‘community’ because there’s fewer people. I don’t feel like I’m screaming at a tornado.
- More niche content. It’s more fractured and I liked that about the early internet and early-reddit.
- My Reddit account got banned for a fucking ridiculous reason and every new account I make they re-ban. Fuck Reddit and it’s over-sanitised, Disney-bullshit.
- I can speak British English without my comment getting deleted. E.g. “Can I bum a fag mate”?
Regarding 2, it is sort of ridiculous how many comments some posts get on reddit. And you’re really unlikely to get any interaction leaving a comment on a post that already has say, 12,000 comments, while meanwhile due to the way the site works, more and more people see the posts that are already at the top.
It’s easy to sort by new and camp new posts
You underestimate the power of defaults. I can guarantee you a large percentage of people might even know it’s possible but don’t want to bother tinkering with settings or just forget about that on the few minutes they just scroll and read/comment.
Having to collapse so many low effort joke comments to find real discussion on reddit, if at all, was very annoying.
I didn’t realize that was something I have not had to do here yet, quite nice.
Right, then sometimes a reply to the top comment would be “this” then for some reason everyone keeps just replying “this”
That
I definitely feel more inclined to comment. Especially since so many posts have so little comments. It feels like my comments are more worthwhile to write to add to the discussion.
Yeah same here, I’ll revert to lurking when every post start to reach 500+ comments with more then half of the comments trying to pun.
Omg, yes that was so annoying!
I gotta be honest, I’m looking forward to the day I can go back to lurking. There aren’t enough populated niche communities on here.
It is a hard habit to break. I mostly lurked on reddit, a few comments here and there. Trying to engage and post a bit more than I would have previously.
Yes. 99% of the time I lurked because I felt like all my opinions were already voiced in other comments.
For some reason Lemmy feels easier to post on for me personally.
There’s more engagement here, you can comment late and have people talking with you.
I think this is what it is for me. I usually just scrolled hot in r/all but by the time I saw posts the conversation had already ended
Very much yes. Now I can make relevant and helpful comments without 50 other people saying the same thing before I even saw the post. I feel like my contribution here matters.
Yeah, I often would type something, realize there was no point because it had been said already, and then delete it. Here I will actually post a link without it having been shared hours before! It’s neat.
I still find myself deleting and saying forget it. Time to commit to hit send more
I had a Reddit account for 10 years and never made a single post, but I actually made a post here so I’m definitely more active here. It’ll probably end up being my only post as more users join Lemmy but I made the post primarily because I wanted more posts to hopefully encourage Lemmy growth.
Heard!
ditto
Definitely me, was on Reddit for over a decade and I already posted more here.
I do post comments here more than reddit. Partly to help keep engagement up, but also because I haven’t seen many shitheads trying to make me feel bad.
You can still have meaningful contributions right now, and we can’t afford to lurk as much. We We need to help out with content, the content we want to see.
Ditto. I still do read Reddit because there are some subs there which had not significantly moved over (yet, hopefully), but I post and interact more on here.
I need to become more active and lurk less.
Lemmy has made me realize that choosing communities (similar to subreddits) is important to me. I try not to search by /all and find information I am interested in. Having to join new communities again is not exactly a problem.
Yeah, I do kinda feel like I’m commenting more on posts that I wouldn’t have commented on over at reddit. Not sure why, probably has at least something to do with tje fact that I want to contribute to this place. I think it’s also that people on here do seem to be more laid back and less confrontational over things that don’t call for a confrontation. I like it here.
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In Reddit, your words are a drop in the deluge of the masses. Here, every comment, or even a humble upvote can make a difference.
