Does avidly upvoting comments count?

I was looking for a reddit alternative that was similar to how mastodon works and found lemmy. I don't like mastodon very much, but I thought the mastodon concept works much better when you have smaller communities decentralized over multiple instances. Kind of like all those bb-forums back in the day, but through a single interface/client.

So naturally, I do like Lemmy but it still kind of has the same problems I have with Mastodon. I want to go into detail in a full post at a later time, but in general it comes down to the user experience not being great. I have quite a lot of ideas for improvements

Easier said than done. Every time I try to post something it just hangs.

Woohoo... First comment :)

I'll probably get around to making some of the communities that I miss. I don't know that I have time to moderate, so it's still up in the air.

Just joined today but currently loving the default browser layout, will see what communities are available and start making content.

You can't tell me what to do! (Wait...)

While I only lurked on reddit, looking forward to a fresh start without all the bots. Planning to start contributing and focus more on hobbies than doomscrolling and nonsense

Don't tell me what to do! Heheheheh

I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions' parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.

Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that's obviously not happening all the time. Then there's what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it's determined to be a copy?

I think we stand a chance of bringing over the best parts of reddit while leaving behind all the negative aspects, I think a lot of people who lurked before (myself included, <4000 karma after 10 years) will be much more willing to engage here.

I went from 15 years of lurking to making several communities and modding a couple others. This is definitely the most I've ever been engaged in online communications. I love it!

I just created my own personal community since I don't want to jump right into posting in others' communities without lurking for a while.

Folks are welcome to check it out: lemmy.world/c/utopianfiat

I've officially exceeded my reddit post count, not saying much, but I'm trying

I'm here. I last commented on Reddit many moons ago but I'm here

Okay, I'll try my best.

lil fun fact: Participating in social media can actually boost your mental health, while lurking around out of FOMO, doomscrolling , whatever else can make you less happy.

source:https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/social-media-positive-mental-health/

I'm just chilling and getting comfy. then I'll start contributing after I feel out the vibe here.