I used to only comment a few times per month when I used reddit but as soon as I started using Lemmy I started making hundreds of comments per month. Especially in the first few months, I got to 1k comments super fast. Since then I've slowed down a bit but still way more active than I was on reddit. This is my alt account btw.

It's so much more rewarding to participate on Lemmy for a multitude of reasons, but mostly because it feels like people actually care enough to read my comments and respond. On reddit it often seemed like shouting into the void. Plus, it's a great feeling to be a part of something that's community based and not just soulless corporate slop. Every time I check reddit, it feels so miserable and I wonder how I ever tolerated that site for so long.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

It feels more human over here (if that makes sense lol)

And yeah after my initial break from Reddit it definitely feels more insufferable over there.

This is also one of my alts, I've a few but none are used as much as this one by a long shot.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The thing is for a good solid decade using one of those corporate websites actually it wasn't so bad, I was right user since 2012 and it used to be good. It's slowly degraded over the years since then and at this point I think I'm fine never going back, except if I am reading some several years old post that has information but even then the internet archive can do that for you and it might be the only place to get that information from Reddit

[–] imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah that's true, I was also a user since 2012 and it was much better back then. It slowly got worse through the 2010s and then really fell off a cliff after 2020