I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.

Definitely posting more, i feel like on reddit it could too easily get a bit aggressive sometimes whereas, whilst people are disagreeing in comments on lemmy, it is a nicer tone. Less intimidating.

That and the volume of messages (lower) makes it feel less intimidating for me.

Not yet, but in Reddit in recent years I mostly posted in niche little places for interests I didn't know there was a community for. I'm just hoping they will migrate or evolve over here because I found so many fun little hobbies because of the organic finding of new subs that Reddit seemed to foster.

And I have a 4mo old baby so that limits my time too. Every day though there is more and more, so I'm hoping I'll be a contributor to help it grow soon!

If anything, the opposite.

The algorithm knew me. Losing the algorithm is like losing a friend... the dickhead that always asked for money.

I’m more of a lurker as well, but I want lemmy to be successful so I’m trying to learn to be more active

I absolutely did, at least for commenting. Partly because I want to create traffic for Lemmy, and partly because it feels just... Nicer here. More genuine interaction, less quippy one liners or insults.

I've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?

i feel like iam actually contributing to the community and helping to build this platform. in Reddit it doesn't feel like your making a difference

I lurked reddit for more than a decade and maybe posted 5 times. I hit that my first day here I think. Not sure what the difference is... I guess the smaller user base makes me feel like I can actually engage in a conversation with someone rather than just have my post disappear into the thousands already on a post

Here you can actually have your main page set to All without most of it being crap and can actually make a thought through post in a generic forum with a high likelihood that it gets engaged with in a positive way.

In Reddit you had to stick to browsing on Subscribed and the generic communities are swamped with karma-farming low-effort today's-consensus-following posts or posts trying to start flamewars.

Over there I pretty much only contributed in one or two highly specialized forums, here I participate in the general community.

Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.

I have already written more comments here than I ever did on reddit. I want lemmy to succeed and it needs even us lurkers to do that. It ain't much--but I am commenting ;)

I'm doing my best to post more content.

Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.

I just joined today and will always stay a lurker but I've mainly noticed a difference in the type of comment I feel prompted to make. On Reddit I mostly gave advice to other people, because you or any opinions were never going to get noticed anywhere else anyway (unless you were lucky, I guess), the community here right now is a lot more casual and so are my replies.

I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.

Same with me. I was a lurker on reddit and never really felt the need to contribute, but with Lemmy I really want the place to grow and it needs content to do that.

Was a lurker on most subreddits, a lot of things I wanted to comment likely had been said so I would just upvote them. Whilst right now (still getting my head round the instances), I feel more inclined to comment when there are low comment volumes.

Have not made a post yet (busy with school and work) but I definitely comment more. Feels so much like web 1.0 forums with a splash of 2.0.

A bit, yeah. Joining Lemmy got me to finally write up a technical idea I'd been intending to post for the last year or so. Figured it'd be a good way to help seed one of the programming communities with some content.

Like other commenters have said: gotta help the community grow, and it won't grow if there's nothing interesting for people to read.

As someone who experienced the digg migration, this is the magical place Reddit once was

I'm trying to. I'm so used to lurking on Reddit that I forget to actually post here. Working on it, though.

Not shouting into a tornado helps a great deal.

We're surely in the golden age of Lemmy where the moderators are numerous and engaged enough to keep up with the bots, spammers, and hate mongers. It makes it a pleasant place to be, even if it seems to be overflowing with beans at the moment.

This is my first Lemmy post!

Definitely I am more willing to post and comment, since reddit fail down. :)

I didn't post on Reddit because I felt no desire to give free content to a business making money from me. Although lots of people really felt like it was a community, I didn't. I thought it was like a theme park - dressed up like a town in order to make you feel like you weren't inside a store. This seems like a real community, at least at the moment.

Agreed. Maybe it's because aside from such a welcoming community, a lot of us shared this collective experience coming from Reddit. It oddly feels at home here.

I think that as a result of the size of reddit, it was unlikely to have engagement when you commented, and it was common to get unkind engagement if it did happen. It’s nice to have a fresh start, but since there’s less of us, it is also a much more intimate experience.

I commented on reddit a lot, many times a day for many years. After the latest bullshit I had no qualms about dropping it like a hot potato. Bye bye, not going back. The future of social media is decentralized.

I’m trying to find the most popular communities so I can figure out what websites blogs I can post and generate content like I was used to when browsing subreddits

I don't, tbh I'm still trying to get a feel for the liftoff app and it just doesn't feel as easy as boost and sometimes it's kinda buggy. I also don't know what to post

Well yeah I'm currently posting all oc things i made and posted on Reddit to contribute to Lenny so that people are encouraged to join

And i also got a few gigabytes of content I could repost, too.