Compared to reddit, yeah, kinda. On reddit it often feels like it's not worth it commenting on a post if it's popular and 14+ hours old. On Lemmy I will see new comments with the default sorting of comments.
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It's night and day. I would comment on reddit here or there, but I would never post. I make an effort to do so here.
No, but the replies are often more strongly charged.
I comment far far less here than on Reddit. Reddit was much much better at showing communities I actually cared about and sprinkled in cat pics or memes. And most posts already had a little bit of engagement.
Lemmy's just throws garbage new posts at you with no comments, no interactions, and it was posted 30 seconds ago. It also groups together posts when someone crossposts something to 30 other communities so you just get a block of 5 posts of the same thing.
As it's matured more I think it's gotten better, but it's not good.
Nah
tl;dr??
I only used Reddit and none of the others and so far Lemmy has been a decent replacement but I'm nowhere near as active. I had a nice curated setup and it's just not possible yet to have the same experience on here.
Same here. One of the biggest issues is that Lemmy is currently terrible at surfacing content from niche communities: no weighted activity, no "multi-reddit-syle" community grouping - pretty much any main view mode is dominated by a few large communities only. This makes the death of the small communities a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The next version of Lemmy is making some very tepid improvements in that regard, but it's nowhere near enough.
With larger communities I just bookmark them instead of subscribing now because , like you say, the main feed just becomes useless. Also the amount of cross-posting doesn't help.
Yes
most posts i stumbled here are completely irrelevant to me, politically and socially, but reading comments here are better than reddit.
plus, margot robbie is here.......
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Yes. I dont feel comfortable contributing to closed corporate ecosystems.
Definitely, there are less posts here that I feel if I comment its just going to end up going south - especially if I have a differing opinion. Which isn't to say that doesn't happen here on Lemmy, there are certainly topics where if you go against the grain, the exact same thing will happen (some of those topics make sense and are worth "fighting" for, others not so much).
Yeah mainly because threads have less than 500 comments
Definitely.
I posted a fair amount on Reddit too, but mostly I'd just write something, then think about what was likely to happen if I actually posted it, then delete it.
Yes.
Same here. Never could be bothered to make an account on Reddit in all my years of lurking there, but here I am.
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I had intended to interact more when I joined Lemmy. But given that this is only my 4th comment ever since I joined 4 months ago, that obviously didn't happen. I've always been more of a lurker on most sites anyway, so I guess it's no surprise that I'd end up being a lurker here too.
A lot more. On other platforms with more users I always feel like I am just commenting into the void on a post with, idk 400 comments / replies. If it only has 0 to ~150 comments it feels less so.
I'm trying to.
i doompost here more than normal, yes.
lemmy is the least bad of all the alternatives atm and it think it should thrive
A little less than Reddit as threads have less to respond to
Yea
Same thing happens to me.
I think yes but I would still call myself a lurker. I don't feel any pressure here to write a good comment.
Yes. And you don’t get the snarky clownshoes responses that are probably just bots anyway.
I was definitely more active on Reddit, since it had the niche subs I wanted to discuss on. Lemmy has more "generic" content, since it doesn't have the user base to grow those niche communities.
Simply put, yes, I feel the same way.
Same as reddit but stopped using reddit after the spez BS
Not really, always a lurker
Not really. Reddit was mostly fine, but I do at least feel that as there are fewer users on Lemmy it's easier to interact with others than just posting to the void.
I'm sleepy
Not any more than I have since first getting online in 1991. My entire reason for being on the Internet is to talk to other people. The memes and shitposts are just topics of discussion (or vehicles to make jokes about) to me.