I never post much on reddit, I go there for entertainment etc.
When I came here in 2021 I saw the content drought and started posting links to stuff, mostly what I had found on reddit. I don’t know if that’s the best way to do it, but at least there is something to look at here.
Now the situation has gotten better, but I already see it slowing down a bit, or conversation mostly revolving around reddit and the API situation (or this post, lol).
Please consider posting random or interesting shit, memes, whatnot. Don’t feel pressure about the quality of the posts, the voting system generally takes care of that and I think that there is no shame in posting something that doesn’t take off.
Tl;dr: If nobody posts, nobody can comment or lurk
For me, the big difference maker is that I no longer feel like I’m shouting into the void. Quite often, I’d see a post, I’d have an opinion/comment/thought about it, start writing a comment, and then think “Why bother? This post already has 5000 comments, and default sort is hot. Nobody will read the 5001st comment”.
Maybe it’s just my monkey brain, but after a day of adjusting, it definitely feels better to have 2+ upvotes and/or 1 comment so I know somebody at least considered what I said rather than a buried comment that nobody will ever see.
Definitely agree. I read a lot on Reddit, but don’t comment much (and post almost never; that part may not change here, but who knows). I also have so many times when I’ve written out half a comment and then deleted it because there are already so many comments and someone’s likely already said what I’m about to say anyway.
Also, being able to hide scores on here is nice! I don’t even want to know if I’ve gotten upvotes or downvotes (and I like that downvotes are disabled on Beehaw) – I tend towards shyness, and seeing a score next to what I’ve written just makes it sooo much harder for me to want to contribute.
I fully agree. It is the reason I never had an account on Reddit, for example. I much prefer the small community that Lemmy is. I feel like that the conversations here are more real and people are willing to wait for a reply instead of immediately move to another topic.