We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join
Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.
I don’t lurk just to lurk, I just have nothing to say most of the time. Still waiting on the niche reddit communities I was a part of to make it here, if they ever do.
Full-time lurker here, I’m trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.
I think we stand a chance of bringing over the best parts of reddit while leaving behind all the negative aspects, I think a lot of people who lurked before (myself included, <4000 karma after 10 years) will be much more willing to engage here.
Was a total lurker in reddit. No accounts, nothing. Just browsing the subreddits.
But I joined lemmy just to help the cause. And put up a good fight.
Yeah. I’m seeing myself using it more and more.
It’s way better participating. I lurked on Reddit and things like it for years before I got the courage to speak up. I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing. Eventually I realized I’m not nearly the dumbest one, who cares lol.
Agreed.
For me it wasn’t about fear. I was just too lazy to make an account XD
But yeah, participating is more fun than watching for sure.
I’m really liking it, too. I was fairly active commenting on Reddit, was a user for over 15 years, but this feels good.
lil fun fact: Participating in social media can actually boost your mental health, while lurking around out of FOMO, doomscrolling , whatever else can make you less happy.
source:https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/social-media-positive-mental-health/
I’m trying to comment more often, but I have anxiety issues. Baby steps.
Getting from “I reddit” to “lemmy post that” is hard, but I agree it’s necessary to grow the communities.
I’m not interested in maintaining a community (I don’t have the time to be a moderator), but I have been trying to comment as much as I can. Also, if you think you have something to post about, just make a post.
I have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn’t have Idea to post though, lol…
More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!
I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was “look how much better we are than reddit”.
Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.
I tried to move over to Voat but it very quickly turned into a cesspit.
It’s almost as if making a site dedicated to people too racist, sexist, antisocial, etc, for even Reddit’s lax moderation policies, was a bad idea.
And that’s before it became a central hub for literal treason.
I just made a version of one of my favourite subs, which I think most people could contribute to: !hypotheticalsituation@lemmy.sdf.org
I forgot all about voat.
I’m hopeful that large scale subs going dark will help us. That and being forced off of 3rd party apps.
the community here is doing a decent job - I think it’s just whether we can all continue to engage actively here (and not get up to shenanigans like defederating from everyone else ahem)
Oh man, I forgot about Voat. That place was… interesting for a little while.
I’m a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?
Same with me. For what it’s worth, the people here seem genuinely nice. :D
i’m also joining the first comment train, choo choo!
This is my first comment too! I’ll try engaging with others more despite the fact I also lurk a lot on Reddit :D
I am too but hey, look you inspiring me to comment too! Honestly I do try to comment but I’m more determined than ever to lurk less and engage more!
That’s what I’ve been trying to do myself. I’m really not an interactive kind of person on these online communities. I’m almost always a lurker, but I’m really trying to push myself to be more active, because I want an open-source and federated Reddit alternative (and ActivityPub in general) to succeed!
i would post but for now i don’t have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway
Same here - I was never an active poster, but I love commenting! Must have something to do with our personalities.
personally i liked having debates with people in the comments. Sometimes i’d make a dumb joke about the post, but most of the times i’d just be completely silent
Angry, pointess debates are so fun lol. They’re my guitly pleasure
i don’t really get angry in debates but yes it’s fun. it’s also funny seeing the person i’m debating get angry
I don’t get angry either but I do love feeding the trolls and/or trolling the people I strongly disagree with
You know you misspelled a word there. Don’t expect me to hold your hand in figuring out which one.
I’ll have you know I graduated college magna cum laude. There is literally no way that I misspelled a word.
Lol what’s your favorite debate that you would go into on reddit?
Me too. I love interacting with content, but I am not a content creator.
I wish I could just share my enthusiasm with everybody, but I get very anxious that what I’d find interesting people will find dull or maybe even troll… that’s something I experienced with actual Reddit, I guess, and now it has carried over pretty much everywhere. I’ll try my best because I want to contribute to a better experience not just for me but everybody!
I share this experience with you. It is really weird. When I was a kid, I was chatting in Yahoo chatrooms and posting on forums and I really don’t think anyone cared what I had to say back then. These days, I can have real conversations but am too timid to do so!
I feel like as kids we’re just so passionate about what’s on our minds. We’re still reckless and impulsive and less caring about what others think. When we grow up and understand the world a little better, we realize it’s not so nice of a place we thought previously, and there’s a lot of jerks around :( I hope we can find that childlike wonder of simply engaging with someone fascinating again.
Same! I grew up on yahoo chat and age of empires forums, I wish I could stop worrying about what others thought.
The Pokemon rooms on Yahoo! chat were my jam! I played a LOT of Age of Empires as a child but I don’t think I ever knew there was a forum for it.
For what it is worth, I have enjoyed this small exchange!
This is the best time to change it for good. So many nice people around here!
Dear Faye, thanks for sharing because I feel the same way and have the same type of anxiety when it comes to posting. Many times I finish a draft and then delete it instead of posting because I think “who cares? Someone else said something similar.”
But your post has motivated me to contribute more. Thanks!
I spent 12 years of my life reading walls of text on Reddit because I knew they were authentic pieces of someone else’s life they were sharing on the internet.
The most interesting posts are the ones that go in depth on some random niche topic that you’d expect no one to care about. Be it an Indie game with 5 players, or a random reptilian species with a cool ability.
So yes, I care! I doubt I’m alone in that regard. Please do post your thoughts 😁
Sidenote: this was before the era of ChatGPT, but I highly doubt a significant number of people are going to intentionally waste others’ time by posting ChatGPT generated content.
I’m very very happy to hear that! I look forward to seeing you around :D
People here is so nice I dont know why but the problem is when more people join It will be harder to keep the peace so more mods will join and keep the peace
It’s definitely going to be harder when there are more different personalities mingling together. It doesn’t help some people just want to see the world burn no matter what the cost… while I want to say, “Enjoy it while it lasts!” I don’t want to have that kind of scenario be the default. At the end of the day, we gotta make sure we contribute into making this space the space we want it to be, and that means reporting whatever we can that break the rules, posting quality content, and just being a decent person in general. We got this, internet friend! :)
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I just got into an argument with someone complaining about the blackouts (trolling I guess) on another community. So exhausting. These will always exist, I guess.
Some individuals just get off annoying people, unfortunately. Ignore, report, and engage with somebody else seems to work most of the time! I hope this won’t wear us down!
