Do you find that you're on the fed more than you were on r/ just because you're really really excited to watch your favorite communities become more active?

Redonkulation , 11 months ago

For me its a definitely the excitement of messing with a new toy while also making me think “how the hell does this work” and “the general population has no chance with this”.

I’ve only been trying out Lemmy/Mastodon for the past few days, slowly building up the communities I subscribe to. I was mostly a lurker on reddit and rarely made my own posts, so the smaller userbase is both good and bad. Good because I spend less time scrolling and I feel like I can contribute more. Bad because there is just less traffic.

Smaller communities tend to be more polite overall and are more welcoming to longer form writing and discussion which I am very down with. I am both intrigued and slightly bewildered how up front the platform is about blocking out content you don’t want to see. Again, good and bad.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on being a new user this week.

EtzBetz , 11 months ago

Yeah, I’m also kind of just using it to generate more content to get it to becoming more popular.

Shartacus , 11 months ago

And I’m here more because the content is actually funny instead of the garbage dump Reddit became.

Fractalfarmer , 11 months ago

Me too. I seldom posted on Reddit the last few years as I felt it got lost.

kuneho , 11 months ago

I think I do, but only because, after using reddit, I know, or at least I have enough knowledge how these kind of forums work and can “work off” my initial excitement productively.

shit, I remember when first saw reddit, and the default frontpage, I had absolutely zero idea what’s going on. it was legit scary… had a bit of lerning curve, so most of the time I was just (trying to) lurk around.

schwim , 11 months ago

I’m on less as there’s less content of interest to me and I’m not a zealot. This is just another social media platform.