On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.

95 points

Yeah, but I’m still doing it on purpose to help the community grow. Somebody’s gotta fill this place with content, and at the end of the day that’s our job.

Normally I’m more of a commenter exclusively unless I need the services of a specific community. (video game question usually) But the Lemmy project has sent me digging for all the best youtube stuff I’ve seen in basically the past decade and then finding the community to shove it in.

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Same here. I have a 9 year account on Reddit with only a few hundred posts and karma; by the time I found something worth posting about anything I posted would either drown out in the noise or essentially already be posted.

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the worst part is you’d almost always end commenting in a thread that gets deleted due to rules etc if you tried to get ahead of the curve and comment in a brand new post. I’m way more active here because I’m trying to help build the community.

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Real non-sequitur, but I love the Marathon reference.

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Coming from someone with 2 million + link karma on Reddit, thanks. I burned myself out a while back. Just too busy now too. You’re good people.

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when it became about points instead of sharing people started gaming the system. we are posting to share, most others making it to any level of visibility are actively gaming the system.

i did some tests around it a few years back, getting notice with derivative gaming is easy but it just drowns out any real content. Only certain power users are usually allowed to the tops of pages, youll see a lot of the same names on the front page over and over.

clear sign there is no hope and discourse isint real anymore

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I think the poll numbers will act the same way to moderate what people say. I don’t think total karma was important, it’s seeing a community you’re in agree/disagree with you, and all the dopamine/negativity that comes from that.

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There’s also the fact that on Reddit any interesting article was probably already posted:)

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Yea, like 500 times too. I really like the feature on here that checks around for other places the same video might’ve been posted.

Like, I shared a vid to Video Essays on LotR theme composition, y’know, niche but not too-niche, and saw it had already been posted in basically every LotR sub. But cool, I posted it anyway cuz it wasn’t in that sub yet and it was good content. But it got like two upvotes (probably me and the mod) and I didn’t have to really wonder why–oversaturation. Nice feature, big fan of it.

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I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve posted here more lately than most of my reddit life.

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I’m in the same boat, I feel like I’ve posted here more lately than most of my reddit life.

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51 points

I am but I’m very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.

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25 points

I’m the most boring human alive.

I’m trying. so. hard. to. Help!

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You should share the thing that you’re most terrified to share with others and i bet its not boring… for e.g… maybe you like to eat boogers… i am sure lots of people will be like… holy hell man… and they will be repulsed … but it won’t be boring. Then you could start a niche community of booger eaters and this community could share stories and recipes… and that sir or miss… is how you contribute instead of lurking.

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6 points

Anyone want to creat a community about shameless farting in public or at the workplace? Or is this just me?

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Look… We’re just here to boost numbers until the interesting people show up.

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7 points

So do I! (⁠☞゚⁠∀゚⁠)⁠☞

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I’m contributing!

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But then I can’t reference this video.

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Haha. We all feel the same way. Not afraid to share our thoughts, doubtful our thoughts have value.

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Your wrong you have plenty to contribute even if it’s just your opinion on posts. And I appreciate your efforts to engage with the community.

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I just like that I can post an honest comment and not worry about being Well-Ackshually’d to death. Sometimes I’d be knee-deep in Wikipedia fact-checking and suddenly realize, “This reddit reply is not worth the personal effort I am putting into it.”

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Well actually (;D), that can happen here… unfortunately.

But I get what you’re saying. Lemmy is still small enough that conversations are more about talking to another person rather than being a performative thing for everyone else in a large subreddit.

Yesterday someone demanded me to give dates on when Global Warming would start causing increases in food prices and so I was on wikipedia and checking sources… and why an I doing this shit?

So it still happens but it does seem less frequent here.

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Or “I’m too late to the post. The front page algo refreshes too fast, and nobody will read my comment anyway.”

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This was my main reason not following most of the biggest subs like askreddit. Even if it’s an interesting question, by the time I see it it’s just not worth replying anymore because no one is going to read it anyways.

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I commented much more on reddit 10+ years ago when the comment sections were smaller and the front page didn’t refresh so quickly.

They changed the algorithm to turn over the front page more per day, and it sucked the life out of the comment section.

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7 points

For real, on Reddit an 8 hour old post and nobody will see your comment.

Here I can comment on a post 2 days old and still get replies.

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This is definitely one of my favorite things, not sure if it’ll stop happening once we start getting more posts though.

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Right?! Like, posting a reply that’s a legitimate correction is fine, whatever. But people constantly post slight technicality corrections (that are usually 75% of the time incorrect or misleading) on reddit. It’s so annoying especially when you’ve been on reddit long enough that you can tell from a parent comment when people are gonna “well actually” and exactly what they’re gonna say because it’s all been said 200x before.

/rant lol

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Absolutely same sentiment here. There’s a couple of those dudes starting to pop up the last couple of days no matter how good your sources are, but certainly less convinced of their own intellectual superiority here so far. Maybe not having 200,000 hivemind karma has humbled them?

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As a professional “Ackshually”-er, a lot of us don’t do it to demean others but just to genuinely spread the knowledge. There’s some asses who do it just to feel superior, sure, but don’t get demoralized because someone pointed out a minor mistake or inaccuracy: it’s just an opportunity to learn more stuff.

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There is no reason to let falsehoods uncorrected, it’s a shame people can’t read intentions properly and get annoyed.

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Well, it’s the internet, you can’t fully convey intentions through text alone and there is actually a subset of people that do point out errors just to stroke their ego (or worse, they’re confidently wrong about their sources and are talking out of their ass). I do wish that people would be more accepting of factchecking and similia (grammar errors are something that you absolutely can’t point out without being lynched, and that makes me livid), but I can’t really blame them too much when they aren’t.

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I used to be an avid participant on reddit, but haven’t been for a long time. Now on Lemmy, I feel like participating again.

I think it’s because it’s on us to make this a great place now. Like, we can’t just migrate and be silent. Or migrate and be assholes. We come here, we gotta participate positively, so I’m just doing my part.

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Me and my people are powered by spite. I am going to try and be more active to help everything along so that reddit may die.

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