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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I haven’t even considered this. Most users on Reddit are lurkers. It doesn’t take many of us to make new communities worth visiting

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Former lurker checking in, trying to take this new start on Lemmy as a way to participate more and hopefully contribute a bit, I wonder how many will do the same coming from reddit.

[–] 5redie8 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am! Mostly lurked because by the time I got to threads they were already too popular and were flooded with hundreds of comments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I love about Lemmy so far. I don't open a thread and see the amount of comments that make me not want to add another comment. If I see thousands of comments, I'll assume my joke or point has already been made and just lurk.

Here, I feel like I can contribute and make these comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Same here, I like the Fediverse, so I try to contribute to it. With reddit it was more of a convenience and mindless thing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I definitely am. Not a huge talker but I'm really trying to do my part here. It also helps that this community just feels a lot more welcoming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Me too. And in nuking ten years of reddit history I realised I had stopped posting over the years as it got so big it just wasn't needed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm with you there, it's certainly worth it to try and post and comment more and ther is a much more relaxed positive vibe here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Currently a lot of places here feel how Reddit used to be when I joined up. I quite like it.