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When I was on Reddit I felt like my opinion didn’t matter. But here it just feels more open and free.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am definitely less active on Reddit, to the point of absence from posting/commenting. However, I am not very active here either. I have encouraged others on Mastodon to join Lemmy but I acknowledge that it's not as mature as a Reddit replacement, as Mastodon is as a twitter replacement. Definitely both systems are getting better and hopefully, we can move our social networking to the fediverse 100% by 2024.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, by far. I wouldn’t really comment on Reddit. Here I do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So far trying to find my old communities I would run with, can’t seem to find all of them.

I did once find /r/FeedTheBeast on lemmy but no longer can find it on here!

Once I get my rotation I will def use this way more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To some extent, yeah. It feels like a more tight-nit community here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have been posting more than I ever had on Reddit. Mostly because I got my news from Reddit, but over here I have to bring the news to Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd mostly comment on shitposts, and there's less here so I feel like I comment less

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to becoming active in the community

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been surfing more on Lemmy than on Reddit now, but that being said, the niche subs that I was "most active in" are just not available/big enough in any of the Lemmy instances I've found, so I end up not really commenting much here compared to on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m so glad to finally join! Signup was tricky and finally got Memmy working for ios. Happy days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. I gradually disengaged over the years. I will become less active once the pump is primed. Perhaps turn to more technical aspects, as maintaining my own instance. Or be more offline in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

barely, but I'm trying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel no difference, I still comment as much as on reddit with the difference that people are more open here and more welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've found myself commenting here more because there's less people. Which means they're way nicer and it doesn't feel like I'm just screaming into the void.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup, way more active. I used to mainly lurk on reddit. Now I'm commenting more and have actually posted a couple of times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Undoubtedly! I was always more of a lurker, but I think I've posted as many comments here in the last couple of weeks as I did in 11 years of Reddit... Lemmy is, somehow, much more inviting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Equally. Try to get used to this and to subscribe to topics I follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More active here, i never got onto the idea of reddit, always made me uncomfortable for some reason.

I did use 3rd party apps like slide or infinity to read reddit posts and follow sibreddits i liked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I never posted on Reddit. Every time I did it was a bad time. I could post the most innocuous thing imaginable (The sky is blue. Water is wet), and without fail have at least a few people telling me I was stupid, naive, woke, a Nazi, whatever. There is a ton of extremist energy around here too, but the radical left is much easier for me to stomach than the radical right.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm not very active yet as there are only a few subs that match. Once there are more...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, I was telling my wife this exact thing. I feel like I can comment and post way more than I used to and get in discussions cause my comments won't be drowned out as much and when I do see a post it doesn't already have 3k comments on it already like in reddit. A lot more intelligent conversation too which is a nice change.

Edit: sorry about the second comment, my instance isn't updated and is having issues. Tried deleting the second comment but it won't let me lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Im getting very active here.

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