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I have noticed that I interact a lot more in Lemmy than I ever did in any social media. Let it be Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter... I am used to be the lurker, but here for some reason things are different. Wonder if more people feel like I do.

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

Significantly more here. I never really liked Reddit, but a couple of my hobbies had communities there so I felt like I had to use it. I stayed away from anything that wasn't a niche personal interest and avoided the bigger subreddits and front page. Here I check out the front page frequently and am pretty generous with upvotes. It feels more like an investment in a community I want to be successful, and not like there's anything intrinsic to Lemmy that encourages it.

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

nah I comment about the same as I did on reddit

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

I would definitely interact more if there was more to interact with.

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

Definitely posting more than I used to on Reddit.

I'm currently the most active on Lemmy, followed by Mastodon, Tildes and Hacker News.

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

I would actually say I interact less, but the things I say on here tend to be more meaningful outside of the dumb jokes and references. Like I have more of a tendency to have an actual discussion on here and write out my thoughts versus on Reddit where I would say low-effort shit or something purely for the dopamine rush of getting those sick upvotes.

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

I like the unmodded and unrestricted nature of Lemmy, or at least how much more free it feels, but in reality there's significantly less interesting content here. So I still visit Reddit from time to time to read on world news or see details in some live feeds. I don't interact there at all. That said, I decided never to go back on Reddit but not because of price gouging or something similar, but because I caught myself spending too much time on stupid stuff there. Life is too short to dig through whole of internet.

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

It's a great place to vent/rant. I'd rather be an asshole online and get it out of my system than to take it out on someone irl.

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

For sure. Doing it right now!

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

Not yet, but I plan to. I'm slowly tapering off Reddit, I'm forced to use the main app, I even managed to remove the ads off it, but I still hate it. It doesn't show the posts that the third party apps always show, the ordering is off no matter how you change it. Hard to explain.

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

I go through cycles of activity and lurking, but generally interact more than I did on reddit.

The other side of this is Lemmy is the main social media platform I interact with (including lurking) period these days. For anything else I either don't use it or my profile's a ghost town.

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