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.

I haven't posted but I've sure commented more times in the past 48 hours than I'd posted on reddit in probably the last year.

I'm loving the engagement I'm seeing. And the fact you're here means we have more in common that the vast majority of users I interacted with on reddit even when I did interact on reddit.

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.

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.

Same here! It helps that there's a lot less negativity here overall, similar to the earlier days of Reddit.

I'm trying to. I'm so used to lurking on Reddit that I forget to actually post here. Working on it, though.

I haven't been, unfortunately. I joined around a week ago and this is my first comment. It seems I'm just as much of a lurker here as I was on Reddit. I suppose this is as good a time as any to change that and try to become more active.

Lenmy feels very new to me and I'm glad to be away from the echo chamber that's Reddit. No more "who's cutting onions", "this is the way" and "sauce?". I'm done with it. Just done. Let's see what Lemmy had to offer. :)

A bit, yeah. Joining Lemmy got me to finally write up a technical idea I'd been intending to post for the last year or so. Figured it'd be a good way to help seed one of the programming communities with some content.

Like other commenters have said: gotta help the community grow, and it won't grow if there's nothing interesting for people to read.

I didn't post on Reddit because I felt no desire to give free content to a business making money from me. Although lots of people really felt like it was a community, I didn't. I thought it was like a theme park - dressed up like a town in order to make you feel like you weren't inside a store. This seems like a real community, at least at the moment.

I post way more than I ever did on reddit

I am exactly the same. I have posted here more times than I did on Reddit in total.

There is just something ‘nice’ about being here. I love that there are region/area specific sites you can join and go from there. I have joined the UK specific Feddi.uk and have found a lot to enjoy.

Let’s all help make this the place to be going forwards.

Part of it is probably also that, because it's new, there's none of that stupid reddit insider culture. Like not being allowed to do this or that or say this or that without being crucified in the comments.

No, I still remain a lousy human

I posted a fair amount on Reddit, this place seems fun.

Same with me. I was a lurker on reddit and never really felt the need to contribute, but with Lemmy I really want the place to grow and it needs content to do that.

Yeah, definitely engaging way more than before. People are nicer here.

Because it's new and everyone is still enjoying the "Lemmy good, Plebbit bad" mentality/circlejerk out of the current events we are having.

As someone who experienced the digg migration, this is the magical place Reddit once was

It's actually the other way around here... on reddit, i often found silly arguments I'd end up getting involved in and it'd end up taking so much of my time with stupid stressful bickering. Here, i mostly see sensible discussion, and any points i want to make are already being thoughtfully discussed, so there's no need for me to wade in.

Yes I’ve definitely posted more here than Reddit. The only thing that keeps me from posting more is performance issues. There have been a few times when I wrote a response but the post button just spins and eventually I give up.

I barely interacted in Reddit. But communities here makes me want to participate.

I'm for sure posting more in the communities that I really like and those that I want to see succeed.

I figure that the more we all interact, within reason, the more everything will grow.

I don't, tbh I'm still trying to get a feel for the liftoff app and it just doesn't feel as easy as boost and sometimes it's kinda buggy. I also don't know what to post

I’m trying to find the most popular communities so I can figure out what websites blogs I can post and generate content like I was used to when browsing subreddits

I havent posted as much here, yet... but I love Lemmy like I love mastodon. I feel like I can have real conversations with real people-- which is something that has been severely lacking on the internet for years.