I've been posting a lot of my own OC comments instead of just boosting which I am enjoying. I'm actually on here two or three times a day looking for new posts or blogs to engage with!
I'm in the same boat. I comment more because it's not going to immediately get lost in the sea of other comments. I've even posted a few things, and made my own magazine, but it's pretty niche and I think only has one other subscriber ;(
Deleted My reddit account , tried all of the fediverse before but always went back to propriety for same reason as anyone else. Everyone is there. With the Reddit exodus I feel this will get the push it needs
I’m making myself be active here. I’m learning to build my own lemmy instance on a VPS.
I want there to be a sea change in social media. I want an authentic intellectual conversation. I was in college during the usenet era and found it easy to find mind expanding stuff there with a minimum of toxicity.
My hope is the community and software mature steadily together until it is ready to handle a significant influx.
Let’s not reward toxicity. We need to steer the conversation and the software development to reward quality engagement over quantity.
Have been wanting to say this for a while, but same here! I feel like Lemmy is much more tight-knitted and closer than Reddit because it is just smaller!
Yes, definitely. Maybe I feel like my contributions matter more since we are all trying to make this a viable platform? I dunno, but it's definitely more fun interacting here than on reddit.
I had good experiences on Reddit, I was active in a few different communities and had good engagement without the 'avalanche of toxic responses' some people here are describing.
I'm leaving Reddit due to the changes at the top, not because of problems at the grass roots.
100%. I've always been a lurker but on lemmy, and I don't know why, but I feel more comfortable interacting and making comments. Haven't made a post yet. Maybe one day
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.
I’m definitely trying to be, which isn’t difficult considering that my last comment there was a year ago, and I only made 5 comments that year.
I’d been on reddit for 11 years, and I was more active back then, but I sort of started to just lurk more as time went by, probably because there was an ocean of comments in every post
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