Asklemmy

I feel like I am not yet, but I will be. Some of the subs I have on Reddit aren’t here yet, partly because they’re either niche or liked by a lot of people that are less tech literate including their maintainers.

I have gone trough some instances before deciding on my current one and I like the stance of most that are for an active discussion, against mindless downvotes and for overall more communication than social media consumption.

The fact that there is next to no automated account making will also help in the long run I think. It makes it an less attractive target for the bad kind of bots imo.

I haven't browsed Reddit since a couple of weeks now. I am definitely more active on Lemmy.

On Reddit I was afraid to comment or post because of the inevitable onslaught of users who would try to start a keyboard fight on the most trivial of topics. It hindered me from just sharing any kind of opinion or cool accomplishment to the point where I would just comment with a one-word or one-liner in hopes it's not petrol. Getting shit on turns you in to a lurker. I've engaged more on Lemmy in the past 2 weeks than I have on Reddit in years. I like it here.

Absolutely, I'm way more active on here. Reddit is so oversaturated, it's impossible to comment on a post before it already has hundreds of comments unless you have time to sit in New and comment as submissions come in. Here, I feel like someone will actually read what I write. Thanks for reading!

Yes, to put my money where my mouth is.

In early 2022, a few months prior to the first rumors Elon Musk might acquire Twitter, I left both Twitter and Reddit for the Fediverse, making it a point to contribute a tiny bit of the content and interaction that help platforms reach critical mass.

In case you're wondering, I left Twitter because the algorithms had made me essentially invisible. There was no point posting or interacting there.

I am a bit more active here than I was in Reddit because I feel like here we don't really find the toxicity we had on Reddit, at least in my opinion.

The smaller the community, the bigger the impact of your opinions.

For example, just on my own, I can reach a good 50% impact on anything I say unless my wife says something different.

Not yet. My niche communities don’t exist in the fediverse yet like they do on Reddit, and I do not have the bandwidth to start new communities right now. Excited to watch it grow and continue to contribute where I can.

I have not been on reddit since the protest, but I didnt post or comment a lot anyway so probably not much of an impact

This place feels more relaxed and open, while reddit felt absurdly competitive and suffocating at times. It used to just be a place to talk to other people about specific topics (and it still is in some places), but now so much of it feels like a competition for the most upvotes and awards.

Lemmy just feels better to comment/interact with. I just feel more motivated to be active on here.

I think the biggest difference here is that I keep getting surprised by how civil most of the discussions are.

Me, by far.

In Reddit: dropped mod position years ago. Used uBlock Origin to remove the voting buttons, as they're pointless. The only threads that I've created were in r/RedditAlternatives, near the end. Create account, comment as I feel in the mood to comment, shred its content, repeat every ~3 months. Extremely rude tone towards anyone showing the smallest sign of shallow thinking, wishful thinking, or similar character flaws. Scaling up arguments for the sake of why not.

Here: moderating three comms. Actively voting. Creating threads fairly often, specially in the comms that I mod. Trying to keep a polite tone and contribute as long as I can. I've only got a single potential fight (against an extremely trashy user - assumptive, with poor reading, but still screeching like he was in Reddit), and even then I simply told myself "meh, why bother".

Absolutely. As much as I loved Reddit, I always felt drowned out due to the large user base and was hesitant to share my opinion. Thanks to Lemmy and its (currently) smaller communities, I feel like my voice has wider reach or, at the very least, less aggressive competition.

Most of my Reddit commenting was done on threads for people looking for advice in one of my hobbies. I generally had a good experience giving feedback here since most people in the subreddit were level headed. Sometimes you got the occasional asshole parroting the usual online "best way to do something" that goes against some people's actual real life experience that is being shared.

I didn't really make any meaningful (non joke) comments outside of this subreddit since I didn't feel like getting some dick in my notifications trying to start a fight over whatever I posted. Sometimes I didn't mind battling the dicks in the hobby subreddit since people lurking can actually learn or get a different perspective from "No, you shouldn't take what's in a listicle as fact. Here is my experience with this."

Definitely. I'm both posting and commenting way more. I need to do my part to make sure this thing really takes off!

Depends, I was mainly active on small subreddits that were focused on things I was interested in. Here those small subs don't exist yet (or are very inactive), but the lower overall user count means I'm interacting with a lot more communities than I would on reddit.

I am definitely feeling more motivated to participate here. It feels like a very welcoming environment so far.

I feel like I have seen more conversations on Lemmy about Reddit than original content

I definitely am. I may have more comments and posts here than on Reddit already and I have only been here a fraction of the time.

Tip for when Lemmy becomes bigger: Find a niche community that's big enough you get seen, but small enough you get noticed.

I have not touched reddit since this debacle... I added a bunch of subreddits to my RSS reader, but I'm honestly not looking at it.

Unfortunately searching for information often brings me to a reddit post, but I'm trying to avoid it and so far found the information elsewhere.

Yes

back to a level of activity i would call my "normal". hasn't been like this in almost a decade.

I'm a lot more active then I was on Reddit.

I was very active in the subs of the games I play (I'm even r/CSRRacing2 mod) when I started there, but I'm getting tired of the hate, stupidity,...

For me it was always difficult to be active on R so the atmosphere here is much more pleasant.

Yes, absolutely. I'm still not sure if it's because the whole community is smaller here, the people are better, no Karma competition, or a combination of all the above

My level of activity on Reddit has been wanting. I was / am still fairly active in some niche subs, but I used to be pretty active in AskReddit, askmen, and several other spaces.

I've made a concerted effort to be more active here, and it feels nice! Feels a lot more human

Yes, I am significantly more active here than I was on Reddit (at least recently, my decline on posting/commenting on Reddit started a few years ago).

I'm not there yet, although I did a lot on Reddit