I never post much on reddit, I go there for entertainment etc.
When I came here in 2021 I saw the content drought and started posting links to stuff, mostly what I had found on reddit. I don’t know if that’s the best way to do it, but at least there is something to look at here.
Now the situation has gotten better, but I already see it slowing down a bit, or conversation mostly revolving around reddit and the API situation (or this post, lol).
Please consider posting random or interesting shit, memes, whatnot. Don’t feel pressure about the quality of the posts, the voting system generally takes care of that and I think that there is no shame in posting something that doesn’t take off.
Tl;dr: If nobody posts, nobody can comment or lurk
Careful what you wish for… I don’t really have anything interesting to say but I have an endless supply of photos of my dog/cats. And now you will too! evil laughter
don’t make me report you to IRS for pup tax evasion.
That is one photogenic dog!
10/10 DreamWorks face!
Adorable.
The cute picture type of communities are definitely in demand!
There are plenty of people crying out for more pet photos!
I second this, I was a lurker before, but now post daily. I feel like my comments and posts are more meaningful in a smaller community, and I want to increase the amount of activity here on lemmy.
I have also noticed that. I imagine the folks that are interested in a federated site for aggregate links will be less toxic than the normal users on reddit/twitter/etc. At least that is the vibe I am getting so far.
Been on reddit since the Digg migration, posted maybe a dozen times over that time. Been on lemmy, posted that many in a day. Feels a lot more comfortable posting somewhere where I know I’m not helping out a corp make money. Also, quite a tech friendly crowd!
Smaller crowd too which is nicer.
I have posted and commented more today than in my last month in Reddit.
I feel needed.
Also it’s going way better than in mastodon, I don’t even knew how to Twitter.
Also it’s going way better than in mastodon, I don’t even knew how to Twitter.
I agree with this. Some years ago I WANTED to get into social media, but never managed and understood why people thought it was so addicting.
Microblogging is just a whole other beast, and as someone who grew up on messaging boards, the digg/reddit/lemmy/kbin style content aggregator sites make sense to me. Microblogging feels like the comment section to an article that was never posted.
I’ve gotten some traction on Mastodon the last few days as I’ve posted information (mostly from Twitter and Reddit) about a local wildfire, but this has been the first time I’ve ever used a microblog for posting “top level” stuff. And I’ll be stopping once the fire stops being a threat.
Posts, with topics and replies, just seem like the natural order of things to me, and I’ve been waiting with baited breath for the Fediverse corner for this style of site to hit some kind of critical mass.
Microblogging feels like the comment section to an article that was never posted.
Hah, I can agree with this. And unless I’m replying to someone else, microblogging just feels like I’m flinging random thoughts out into the void, which is definitely something I did more of when I was younger but isn’t appealing anymore.
I also find that I greatly prefer forums with topic/community-based follows over sites with user/hashtag-based follows. If I follow a user on Twitter or Mastodon, I’m seeing everything they post, even the posts about topics I don’t care about; if I follow a hashtag, I’m seeing every post with that hashtag, including the threads I don’t care about. Also, just the way threading and replies are shown on sites like Twitter or Mastodon is much harder for me to follow, personally.
I don’t even knew how to Twitter.
Same. Twitter seems to make sense when you care about someone’s opinion in specific. I dont.
Yeah I’ve tried to figure out Twitter and Mastodon multiple times but that format of content just doesn’t make sense to me. With how my experience with Mastodon went it made me wary of trying Lemmy out when I heard about it.
The web ui and apps for Lemmy leave a lot to be desired but I hope they will improve in time as the user base grows.
major lurker here, trying to change that to help build traction to federated alternatives. Bye, twitter and reddit 👋
I literally commented on Reddit like twice in my life. I know it’s silly but I feel like I’m actually doing something here. Reddit has gotten so damn stale that I want to at least try to contribute to something that can succeed it.
Definitely feels like a community here versus being a voice lost in the crowd. Friends vs strangers.
Thanks. You just convinced me to put up a post. I agree, with more content, more users will come and it’ll snowball
I have been posting way more than I ever did on Reddit- it helps that the Beehaw and Lemmy communities feel a lot more friendly and open.
For me, the big difference maker is that I no longer feel like I’m shouting into the void. Quite often, I’d see a post, I’d have an opinion/comment/thought about it, start writing a comment, and then think “Why bother? This post already has 5000 comments, and default sort is hot. Nobody will read the 5001st comment”.
Maybe it’s just my monkey brain, but after a day of adjusting, it definitely feels better to have 2+ upvotes and/or 1 comment so I know somebody at least considered what I said rather than a buried comment that nobody will ever see.
Definitely agree. I read a lot on Reddit, but don’t comment much (and post almost never; that part may not change here, but who knows). I also have so many times when I’ve written out half a comment and then deleted it because there are already so many comments and someone’s likely already said what I’m about to say anyway.
Also, being able to hide scores on here is nice! I don’t even want to know if I’ve gotten upvotes or downvotes (and I like that downvotes are disabled on Beehaw) – I tend towards shyness, and seeing a score next to what I’ve written just makes it sooo much harder for me to want to contribute.
I fully agree. It is the reason I never had an account on Reddit, for example. I much prefer the small community that Lemmy is. I feel like that the conversations here are more real and people are willing to wait for a reply instead of immediately move to another topic.
Likewise. I’ve posted more on Beehaw in the last day than I did in twelve years on Reddit. That’s not an exaggeration.
If nobody posts, nobody can comment or lurk
Im starting to realise that. I am trying to get myself into talking more haha. So used to use the platform to obtain information instead of just chatting
Yeah, I find it a lot more entertaining when I post stuff. Sharing information is a frantastoc activity, commenting too :)
And chatting, of course!
This makes sense; tough I always have a crisis before actually posting, because I think that the link isn’t interesting enough or relevant.
If it’s not interesting or relevant we won’t upvote it, but hey - we won’t downvote it either, and there’s no karma here. You have literally nothing to lose and if it gets really annoying people will simply tell you :D
No karma!? Did not know that. That sound excellent, hmm maybe I should join this thing… Seriously though, this post made me sign up. Who knows, maybe I will actually contribute to the community.
Statistically most posts will flop. But they won’t be seen by many, while those posts that are of big interest will be seen :)
Shouldn’t posts be less likely to flop here though? The communities have less content, so they move slower and people have more time to see a post, making perfect timing less relevant, as opposed to reddit for example.
I agree with the crisis comment though
I really need to stop being such a lurker.
I’ve been lurking on reddit for years, but maybe now I’ll join in on the conversation 😅
I basically never post on Reddit because it feels like not just the content of your message is picked apart but so is the grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. Or there might be nothing wrong with your post/comment and you still get downvoted to oblivion because “reasons.” It feels a lot more welcoming on here to join in on the discussions.
This is a great point. The only reason lurking is even possible on Reddit, is because of the decades of content and hundreds of millions of active monthly users. In it’s infancy of 2005 and into the early days, lurking was not possible. Lemmy is very much in the early days, but it doesn’t have to stay there. Although, I think we would all appreciate less shitposting as exits on Reddit, but your heart is the right place haha
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No pressure, it’s supposed to be fun as well!
Same here, every other time I posted to reddit I’d get ripped to shreds it felt like and I’m old enough to remember getting pwnted on Yahoo Answers and Usernet as a child.
Mood, reddit conditions you to be combative and ready for debate, it’s hard to transition out of that.
