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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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[–] tom@lmmy.tvdl.dev 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Boot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I’m trying to be more active. It doesn’t come naturally as I’m generally a lurker. Good vibes help though

[–] ThaijsClan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Im getting very active here.

[–] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

100% Lemmy content is just so much more up my alley

[–] webghost0101@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My reddit account was soft locked for months barring me from any interaction, just lurk.

I never fixed it because i was wasting to many hours on debates. Yesterday i told my wife i was going to come downstairs after finishing my reply. It took 30minuts.

Lemmy is great and i love interacting with it but honestly i wouldn’t mind a bot that helps me to stop now and then. This cant be good for my mental health in the long run otherwise.

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[–] Uriel238@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Considering I am totally inactive on Reddit now, yes.

[–] dap@lemmy.onlylans.io 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] IrateKnight@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Looking forward to becoming active in the community

[–] Mythril@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure it matters more TBH... but I basically stopped Reddit for 2 days, and now just get drawn back to read the occasional post - but don't bother commenting.

With the downtick in Reddit, I remembered that I hadn't read a book for a month or two, so I headed over to Annies Archive and grabbed a bunch to add to my Kindle...

So I now downloaded 3 versions of 'Great Expectations' and am reading that book before watching them - but also have "Welcome to the MonkeyHouse" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Book Thief" grabbed from Annie's Archive.

Basically now I'm spending less than half the time on net than I was before.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] CupDock@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] EugeneNine@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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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[–] nii236@lemmy.jtmn.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Reddit quality has markedly deteriorated in my opinion.

Maybe it’s just my imagination.

Basically everything works but the content is less engaging!

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] flameguy21@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

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