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consider starting to post, if you where a lurker or commenter on reddit (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/chat

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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

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[–] moonleay@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also it’s going way better than in mastodon, I don’t even knew how to Twitter.

I agree with this. Some years ago I WANTED to get into social media, but never managed and understood why people thought it was so addicting.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microblogging is just a whole other beast, and as someone who grew up on messaging boards, the digg/reddit/lemmy/kbin style content aggregator sites make sense to me. Microblogging feels like the comment section to an article that was never posted.

I've gotten some traction on Mastodon the last few days as I've posted information (mostly from Twitter and Reddit) about a local wildfire, but this has been the first time I've ever used a microblog for posting "top level" stuff. And I'll be stopping once the fire stops being a threat.

Posts, with topics and replies, just seem like the natural order of things to me, and I've been waiting with baited breath for the Fediverse corner for this style of site to hit some kind of critical mass.

[–] lunasloth 8 points 1 year ago

Microblogging feels like the comment section to an article that was never posted.

Hah, I can agree with this. And unless I’m replying to someone else, microblogging just feels like I’m flinging random thoughts out into the void, which is definitely something I did more of when I was younger but isn’t appealing anymore.

I also find that I greatly prefer forums with topic/community-based follows over sites with user/hashtag-based follows. If I follow a user on Twitter or Mastodon, I’m seeing everything they post, even the posts about topics I don’t care about; if I follow a hashtag, I’m seeing every post with that hashtag, including the threads I don’t care about. Also, just the way threading and replies are shown on sites like Twitter or Mastodon is much harder for me to follow, personally.