I certainly have.

I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.

I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times

I really like the default active sorting keeping discussions in older threads alive for longer. The comment sorting also makes it easier to join discussions later on :)

Yeah, -- with Lemmy being a smaller community it's much more interactive than just commenting/posting and it being buried. last time I posted/commented on reddit was like around 3-4 years ago, so always been a lurker, going to change now with Lemmy.

I think actually feeling like you are being seen is a big factor for me. I felt buried in Reddit and so far this community just feels right. I really do hope it stays that way.

I've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?

Yep, for me is about supporting the cause.

Here you can actually have your main page set to All without most of it being crap and can actually make a thought through post in a generic forum with a high likelihood that it gets engaged with in a positive way.

In Reddit you had to stick to browsing on Subscribed and the generic communities are swamped with karma-farming low-effort today's-consensus-following posts or posts trying to start flamewars.

Over there I pretty much only contributed in one or two highly specialized forums, here I participate in the general community.

I am more of a sarcastic commenter. Made a couple of posts though. However, I am upvoting a lot more stuff here as I never really upvoted posts on that other site that hates 3rd party stuff. I want to make sure this stuff actually works and people don’t go crawling back to that site that makes you Spez out.

I didn't make posts all that often on reddit, but I definitely commented a fair amount. The problem I've got with lemmy right now is there's not as much discussion about stuff I'm interested in, so I'm mainly just looking at All instead of keeping to my subscribed communities.

I?m posting less overall, I think. I'm used to interactng in specific communities that haven't hit critical mass yet.

I have already written more comments here than I ever did on reddit. I want lemmy to succeed and it needs even us lurkers to do that. It ain't much--but I am commenting ;)

Yeah, I post more. Gotta do my part to make this community alive.

Was a lurker on most subreddits, a lot of things I wanted to comment likely had been said so I would just upvote them. Whilst right now (still getting my head round the instances), I feel more inclined to comment when there are low comment volumes.

Just doing my part to test the system. See what clicks, maybe it'll get better with my humble reply, one at a time

If anything, the opposite.

The algorithm knew me. Losing the algorithm is like losing a friend... the dickhead that always asked for money.

Trying to break the habit, discussion content isn't gonna start itself otherwise

Reddit mods censored a lot of content both posts and comments. That was part of the reason reddit was not a positive experience and became a echo chamber. Lemmy appears to be more like the old internet where there were a diverse community of ideas and views.

I just joined today and will always stay a lurker but I've mainly noticed a difference in the type of comment I feel prompted to make. On Reddit I mostly gave advice to other people, because you or any opinions were never going to get noticed anywhere else anyway (unless you were lucky, I guess), the community here right now is a lot more casual and so are my replies.

I don't know if it's just me but it reminds me of early Reddit, without all the Karma whoring

Yeah, I've been posting a lot more on the websites I've switched to. Just want to help build the community, ya know?

Agreed. Maybe it's because aside from such a welcoming community, a lot of us shared this collective experience coming from Reddit. It oddly feels at home here.