On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
Yeah, but I’m still doing it on purpose to help the community grow. Somebody’s gotta fill this place with content, and at the end of the day that’s our job.
Normally I’m more of a commenter exclusively unless I need the services of a specific community. (video game question usually) But the Lemmy project has sent me digging for all the best youtube stuff I’ve seen in basically the past decade and then finding the community to shove it in.
Same here. I have a 9 year account on Reddit with only a few hundred posts and karma; by the time I found something worth posting about anything I posted would either drown out in the noise or essentially already be posted.
the worst part is you’d almost always end commenting in a thread that gets deleted due to rules etc if you tried to get ahead of the curve and comment in a brand new post. I’m way more active here because I’m trying to help build the community.
I am but I’m very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.
I’m the most boring human alive.
I’m trying. so. hard. to. Help!
You should share the thing that you’re most terrified to share with others and i bet its not boring… for e.g… maybe you like to eat boogers… i am sure lots of people will be like… holy hell man… and they will be repulsed … but it won’t be boring. Then you could start a niche community of booger eaters and this community could share stories and recipes… and that sir or miss… is how you contribute instead of lurking.
Anyone want to creat a community about shameless farting in public or at the workplace? Or is this just me?
Lmao i could see that becomming a popular community. I would love reading peoples funny farting in public stories
ahh, an avid member of /c/cropdusters i see
now thats what im talking about
So do I! (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞
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I’m contributing!
But then I can’t reference this video.
You beautiful son of a bitch. I would be mad if it did not make me feel so at home.
You beautiful son of a bitch. I would be mad if it did not make me feel so at home.
You beautiful son of a bitch. I would be mad if it did not make me feel so at home.
Still a lurker tbh, aside from this comment
We need you, too. As long as you’re upvoting and downvoting, you’re helping curate content.
Yeah, they’re actually the backbone of the community. We’re not the power that keeps the trolls at bay, they are.
Plus lemmy only counts users who have posted or commented as an active user. So making at least one comment is helpful to gain traction.
lol semi-lurking here as well. good comment tho
Always felt unwelcome posting anything on reddit. Lemmy is new enough and filled with people who are nice enough to make feel like I wont get yelled at for commenting or posting.
Agreed. It’s a smaller community and easier to feel seen. I’ve probably already posted more here than I ever have on Reddit.
Oh yeah, same here. The community is just so much nicer here. :)
I used to be an avid participant on reddit, but haven’t been for a long time. Now on Lemmy, I feel like participating again.
I think it’s because it’s on us to make this a great place now. Like, we can’t just migrate and be silent. Or migrate and be assholes. We come here, we gotta participate positively, so I’m just doing my part.
Yes all my comments are non relevant nonsense but I’m having fun.
Same here, every post feels like I’m making a small contribution to a platform which I really want to succeed.
Exactly this.
For sure. Also more happy to upvote.
I never even had an account on reddit but on lemmy i post shit ?
I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually’d to death. Sometimes I’d be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, “This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it.”
Well actually (;D), that can happen here… unfortunately.
But I get what you’re saying. Lemmy is still small enough that conversations are more about talking to another person rather than being a performative thing for everyone else in a large subreddit.
Yesterday someone demanded me to give dates on when Global Warming would start causing increases in food prices and so I was on wikipedia and checking sources… and why an I doing this shit?
So it still happens but it does seem less frequent here.
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Absolutely same sentiment here. There’s a couple of those dudes starting to pop up the last couple of days no matter how good your sources are, but certainly less convinced of their own intellectual superiority here so far. Maybe not having 200,000 hivemind karma has humbled them?
Right?! Like, posting a reply that’s a legitimate correction is fine, whatever. But people constantly post slight technicality corrections (that are usually 75% of the time incorrect or misleading) on reddit. It’s so annoying especially when you’ve been on reddit long enough that you can tell from a parent comment when people are gonna “well actually” and exactly what they’re gonna say because it’s all been said 200x before.
/rant lol
As a professional “Ackshually”-er, a lot of us don’t do it to demean others but just to genuinely spread the knowledge. There’s some asses who do it just to feel superior, sure, but don’t get demoralized because someone pointed out a minor mistake or inaccuracy: it’s just an opportunity to learn more stuff.
There is no reason to let falsehoods uncorrected, it’s a shame people can’t read intentions properly and get annoyed.
Well, it’s the internet, you can’t fully convey intentions through text alone and there is actually a subset of people that do point out errors just to stroke their ego (or worse, they’re confidently wrong about their sources and are talking out of their ass). I do wish that people would be more accepting of factchecking and similia (grammar errors are something that you absolutely can’t point out without being lynched, and that makes me livid), but I can’t really blame them too much when they aren’t.
Agreed.
Just you. I comment the same amount I always have, omaybe slightly less.
definitely find smaller sites like lemmy easier to post on since its much easier to repeat yourself on reddit and perhaps more modded so i refrain from saying a lot of stuff?
Nah, but I’m definitely a more avid commenter!
That may or may not be a good thing.
