Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Nah, but I'm definitely a more avid commenter!

That may or may not be a good thing.

Me too!

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

Don’t have as many rules about how to post here and new posts don’t get caught up with needing to be approved.

its been the exact opposite for me lmao

Definitely more prolific thus far considering all the communities I've found on Lemmy so far are for hobbies and interests, and not just the slew of assorted cat pic subreddits I was subscribed to on Reddit. I'm sure the latter will come in time though.

Yep!

I've always been a lurker and probably always will be. But until there's enough content to be lurked we all should do our part in creating the content and letting this whole site grow.

I've come to start being more active too. I'm still trying to learn the ropes on posting, image sizes, etc. So far so good. Thank you Lemmy for getting me out of my (lurker) shell. I was active on the big R, but not as active as I am turning out to be on this platform.

Posting once or twice a day means you're posting (on average) 273x as much as you would on Reddit. That's a huge difference! 273x more posting would mean 273x more posts from people like you. (Of course, this is pretty optimistic).

Yeah, my reddit comment numbers had already been significantly declining by the time all this API stuff came around, even getting as low as a few a month

I was on reddit for almost 15 years and i mostly just commented. I posted maybe 5 or 6 times at most. Been on lemmy for 2 days and im already at 3 (shitposts).

It’s just you

I've been trying to kickstart four communities because apparently I'm a masochist, but I've posted more in the last month than I did in the last 10 years on reddit. It reminds me a lot of my first couple of years on reddit (circa 2010/2011) and then my posting died off because you'd either get drowned out by the noise (hundreds or thousands of comments) or ignored in favour of a one liner joke.

I've seen a lot of people comparing Lemmy to early reddit, and I don't necessarily disagree, but I feel like there's one important distinction between the two. Even early reddit was driven by karma. There just wasn't as much people >10 years ago. I find the lack of karma on Lemmy refreshing. How it's gone back to the old forum way of just counting the number of posts is fantastic. It's a weird habit to break out of though because part of me still wants to go "I got no upvotes, time to delete" or "I'm getting downvotes, better delete my post".

I was banned from reddit for averting a ban so that's my engagement, before that I would post often on Reddit.

If anyone is curious why I was banned I argued in some conservative subreddit and was muted by a shitty mod who I called a bad name and that was enough to be banned, getting busted on a different account resulted in a heavier ban.

So fuck Reddit

no seriously it's so much more engaging and chill than Reddit , you don't have to deal with karma whores etc etc... Love it here

I'm posting some things that I would've normally just googled to do my part.

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?

Somewhat because I’m hoping to help build the community we want!

I never even had an account on reddit but on lemmy i post shit ?

Just you. I comment the same amount I always have, omaybe slightly less.

It's a bit ironic that I've seen this exact same post about three times already. Apparently you're the only one posting stuff.
Or maybe I don't know how Lemmy works.