Federated communities have been a challenge to me, because I’ve usually been a passive consumer, never really contributing.
I am trying to comment much more and hopefully post, because I want to help contribute the type of content that I want to see!
Same here. On reddit I have mostly only been a commenter, I made perhaps five posts over all my years there, virtually all of my 40k karma or so was from commenting.
And while I do that here too of course I am trying to contribute content as well, like asking Linux questions which may eventually help promoting Lemmy through search engine relevance. Of course it doesn’t hurt that Linux is probably the biggest common denominator amongst Lemmy users, so the chance for useful replies is much higher than trying to get a niche community going.
I came over during the API bullshit. I was very active on Reddit but then learned about the fediverse and how great this is here. I post daily to try to help out.
This was me on reddit…
Reddit is literally the only non-user ran social media platform I ever used. Before that, I was using random PHPBB forums hosted by people like those who are hosting Lemmy instances or using IRC chat rooms.
It’s kind of an eternal September feeling seeing the Internet only take off in the main stream because of big tech and corporate bullshit when all they did is provide the same kind of spaces that already existed and then make them suck.
