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.
Real non-sequitur, but I love the Marathon reference.
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when it became about points instead of sharing people started gaming the system. we are posting to share, most others making it to any level of visibility are actively gaming the system.
i did some tests around it a few years back, getting notice with derivative gaming is easy but it just drowns out any real content. Only certain power users are usually allowed to the tops of pages, youll see a lot of the same names on the front page over and over.
clear sign there is no hope and discourse isint real anymore
I think the poll numbers will act the same way to moderate what people say. I don’t think total karma was important, it’s seeing a community you’re in agree/disagree with you, and all the dopamine/negativity that comes from that.
the challenge is keeping that around the goal of posting engaging content rather than a race to the bottom for popularity points.
Coming from someone with 2 million + link karma on Reddit, thanks. I burned myself out a while back. Just too busy now too. You’re good people.
I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve posted here more lately than most of my reddit life.
I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve posted here more lately than most of my reddit life.
There’s also the fact that on Reddit any interesting article was probably already posted:)
Yea, like 500 times too. I really like the feature on here that checks around for other places the same video might’ve been posted.
Like, I shared a vid to Video Essays on LotR theme composition, y’know, niche but not too-niche, and saw it had already been posted in basically every LotR sub. But cool, I posted it anyway cuz it wasn’t in that sub yet and it was good content. But it got like two upvotes (probably me and the mod) and I didn’t have to really wonder why–oversaturation. Nice feature, big fan of it.
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.
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.
Oh I didn’t know that! Thanks for mentioning it, TIL. I’m glad so many others are also trying their best to be active like this, I’m really optimistic so far about the community building around here if folks keep this up.
Yeah, they’re actually the backbone of the community. We’re not the power that keeps the trolls at bay, they are.
Are upvotes and downvotes federated?
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Yes. Not always successfully atm, but they are supposed to sync across all servers.
Same. I see myself commenting a little more here (and posting my cat to various cat related instances), but mostly I’ll be reading and upvoting/downvoting.
Hey, I see you not lurking there 👀
lol semi-lurking here as well. good comment tho
Same here - but I really want to try to be more active. We‘ll see.
Just you. I comment the same amount I always have, omaybe slightly less.
I never even had an account on reddit but on lemmy i post shit ?
Oh yeah, same here. The community is just so much nicer here. :)
I am but I’m very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.
Posting is essential to get this community up and running so thanks!
We’re surely in the golden age of Lemmy where the moderators are numerous and engaged enough to keep up with the bots, spammers, and hate mongers. It makes it a pleasant place to be, even if it seems to be overflowing with beans at the moment.
This is my first Lemmy post!
I think I find myself participating more generally, now that I’m not necessarily frequenting specific subreddits
I would have commented 4 times in last many years on reddit. On Lemmy (across instances) I have already posted over 40 in the last few weeks.
Ah now that I finally figured out how to comment maybe I can join this trend
Anger and spite, like what other have mentioned, but also, it’s always nice to be part of a growing community.
You feel like you’re actually contributing rather than just being a statistic.
Finding it way easier to engage and comment. Don’t have to wade through thousands of shit comments on Lemmy. Loving it!
I had the same lurker status back on reddit and definitely feel more inclined to post here. I think part of it is that for at least right now, individual comments really are setting up the success of lemmy so it feels good to be a part of that. Also, back on reddit those hardcore karma farmers dominated the threads. You had to find niche subreddits for comments to feel like they mattered…everything else was a “why bother” feeling.
Yup. Comments too.
I just don’t want to be the annoying little siblings to any of the old-school lemmings. Or, accidentally partake in overloading any instances that are being hosted via donations or personal hardware.
