I didn't post a lot but I was definitely anxious about commenting because if it wasn't worded just right, someone would take it out of context and be offended by it or downvote it to hell. I remember telling someone that I loved their poems - downvoted. I corrected someone about the difference between ESAs and service dogs - cue arguments when they can just literally read the ADA (law). I apologized for getting something wrong - insults and talked down to. I also remember being told that latinx is what trans Latinos want people to use, I used it and was greatly talked down to and told I'm not a real Latino. It felt like reddit was just really hostile no matter what I did. There were many times I wrote a comment but then discarded it.

Some subs on Reddit are ridiculously complex to post in. It put me off posting things that I thought were interesting so many times.

The bots are incoming imminently. Which subs will use them, is less certain. Obviously beehaw will be like a straitjacket, but i think anywhere else should be ok

Yeah.. I remember posting multiple times on some subs EVERY time I wanted to post because I thought I understood the rules.. I mostly comment nowadays because of it tbh! Posting anxiety is a solid way to put it

I never had posting anxiety because I stuck mostly to small subs but I despised how automod could just do that. That said, it would be cool if we had a (smaller) automod here, before things get out of hand. We don't need bots and trolls to ruin everything.

Omg yes. I always felt like more of an editor than a writer, even when commenting. I could never quite get to the point, or would have to approach in a super round about way. Also, my inbox was great source of anxiety. I actually started straight up ignoring it.

I'm not gonna sugar coat it...fediverse>reddit for me.

Fk AutoMod. There were some subreddits I actually couldn't post, even though I wanted to (League of Legends being one example).

Yeah posting is like walking on eggshells. Too many rules that aren’t always obvious/easy to find. Or that time I got auto banned from r/news for responding to someone on r/conservative with my liberal perspective…

It started to get really overdone on the moderation side for sure.

Absolutely. I got tired of some subs because of being unable to even talk about things they decided were immoral or wrong.

Fuck the bots, I'm so glad they're gone. Reddit constantly hides your posts for no reason. Someone can post in a support subreddit, and they'll wonder why they don't get any replies for hours. Cuz reddit fucking hidden it without notifying them. Imagine how sad a suicidal person must be to see no replies when they're desperately seeking for advice.

I wasn't posting but I commented a lot. I can't say I had any anxiety regarding commenting.

I had 105k comment karma so I must've been used to it at least, right?

I remember in some communities when I was posting where I hadn’t submitted a new post before (I commented much more than posted), going back and forth to the rules over and over again to make sure I didn’t miss something, only to have my post removed by auto mod or a regular mod anyway, for not following some rule that wasn’t in the list of rules.

I got used to not caring about downvotes on comments much, and to not caring about hostile replies, but not the new post “did I somehow violate a rule that wasn’t in the list?” anxiety. I will not miss that at all.

(To be clear, I’m not anti-moderation or anti-mod at all, this is limited to this specific situation, which happened more often than you’d think, sadly.)

Glad I'm not the only one noticing this! Didn't realize how much it had affected me. It took me days to dip my toes in when I came here, and I still felt that 'twitch' waiting for the automod to slap my post down, or feeling the insta-flames or downvote parade in some of the big subs.

I would definitely agree that posting on reddit was difficult.

By default I feel like most posts were handled in a, remove first, ask questions later fashion.

Commenting was a bit better but there were a lot of set opinions and/or blatant misinformation.

Comment and post anxiety still exist for me here, and it probably won't change for a king time.

I also really, really like the ability to microblog at a magazine. A whole tab just for the casual, quick, less thought out posts that would make people sneer in disgust and smash the downvote button for having wasted their time on reddit. Probably with a "cool story bro" or "sir this is a wendy's" on the way past. I feel a lot freer to just engage without worry here.

Though I find I'm hesitant to use this feature on communities that aren't hosted on kbin (e.g. lemmy), knowing they'll probably just see it as a regular post and have exactly the reaction above.

I barely created posts on Reddit. Sometimes automod was a real pain in my ass, not gonna lie, but only in few specific subreddits. Although it's true that the mood here is more friendly to create posts and/or comment in them. I don't feel myself questioned, despised or attacked by others.