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I have noticed that I interact a lot more in Lemmy than I ever did in any social media. Let it be Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter... I am used to be the lurker, but here for some reason things are different. Wonder if more people feel like I do.

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[–] Life_Inst_Bad@pricefield.org 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel like you are more encouraged to interact here. Like you're helping the fediverse grow. The other thing for me is that people seem to be much more civil then in other places. So yeah I feel the same.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Like you're helping the fediverse grow.

It feels like a civic duty.

From what I see, Lemmy is just at the edge of "not enough content". So many communities have one or two committed posters. So I comment as much as I can and post when I see something interesting.

[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For me it's the gonewild subs... Once you start getting regular content there and they expand out to gonewildcurvy or bdsmgw or 30sgonewild etc you'll really see lemmy take off.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

They've had some issues with that though. lemmynsfw was heavily defederated from others over concerns about CSAM being federated, and after that lemmynsfw had much more mild porn.

Personally, I think that as long as porn is still freely available via old reddit without logging in, then it won't take off much. Also, we're in the post-Only Fans age, so it's unlikely lemmy will ever get that "pure" gonewild feel that reddit had, as almost every user that posts their own porn is now doing it for money.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

That's the thing I find so surprising. There are so few NSFW posters. Porn pushed a lot of technical and economic innovation online. If Lemmy can't get traction on adult content, we're in bad shape.

/s (mostly)

[–] BigPapaE@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If you build it (the porn) they will come

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

I’m doing my part. soldiers laugh

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is how I see it, and it seems like comments are better received here, too, which encourages me further.

[–] BoiLudens@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yea I’m pretty much of the same mind, anything that can encourage content on here the better

[–] e_mc2@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. I never bothered to do much interacting on Reddit. Either comments were trolled or downvoted "just for shits and giggles" or they were buried in no time under all the snarky oh-so hilarious comments that instantly killed all real discussion.