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.

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.

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 have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn't have Idea to post though, lol...

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?

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

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!

If we comment even when we have nothing to say we end up with comments like 'this'

Most users on any given platform are gonna be lurkers

Also...DON'T MAKE TOO MANY COMMUNITIES!!! I know we all have our favorite niche subreddits that we'll miss, but we need to reach a critical mass with a core set...and then organically break out communities into more niche communities.

I'd also like to post more but worry that I'm being narcissistic...Not everyone likes my weirdly-tuned ukulele music.

Yes, for sure we need content, but it's not helping for all us Reddit refugees to start spamming crap. What's needed here is good content.

It will happen as all the new users get settled and comfortable. If Reddit is an example, there will always be fewer people who create posts than people commenting, and fewer people commenting than lurking. It's human nature.

Let's face it. without shitposters and casuals a social network can't thrive. You need the chaotic energy it brings.

I lurked on reddit but uh I'll make an attempt to post more

I'm not going to comment, just upvote. Wait...

First comment on Lemmy, I'll try my best not to lurk! Really hoping to see this thrive.

I always mostly lurked on Reddit for years from fear of being judged, I struggle with anxiety and feel like I won't contribute anything.

All the introverts: o.o'

good point. For the first time ever I am now a mod - wish me luck. Re-introducing: /c/theyknew

Woohoo... First comment :)

That, and please stop talking about reddit so much, dear god. My feed is filled with reddit news, rather than the respective topics of each community I'm subscribed to.

I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions' parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.

Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that's obviously not happening all the time. Then there's what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it's determined to be a copy?

Reddit-lurker for 9 years. Starting off with a comment event before understanding how this thing works. The sky is the limit from here on!

I went from 15 years of lurking to making several communities and modding a couple others. This is definitely the most I've ever been engaged in online communications. I love it!

I enjoy writing comments, but not so much making posts. Does this make me a "partial" lurker?

Pretty much only lurked on reddit. Gonna try to turn a new leaf and be more social

I love the feeling that I can post here without feeling insecure. Everyone seems well meaning and welcoming

I'm not ready for this responsibility.

I have always been a lurker on reddit and most social media, but Lemmy does make me want to contribute with posting and commenting.

One thing I miss and intend to build as I get more time is indexes and big posts I saw in subreddits of my interest, it would be a good thing to start migrating to Lemmy, for example.

It's definitely tough to break the lurking habits.

I made a community called cringeworld for fans of the old cringe subs

c/cringeworld

I've already been enjoying posting to Lemmy/etc much more than I ever did Reddit.

Reddit always felt so set-in-stone and unchanging to the point that it made me feel like I arrived "late" to the party even though my first Reddit account was in I think 2015. Once somebody claimed a subreddit with an easy-to-remember name that was largely it, and if you disagreed with their moderating style you had to suck it up or make your own with a more obtuse name.

With Lemmy since everything's decentralized it feels much more... I guess open? If someone makes a !gamedev community that has iffy moderation issues or whatnot, I or someone else can also make a !gamedev comm on another instance without it being a problem at all.

I've already made more comments and posts than I ever did on Reddit. I'm doing my part! o7