If people use it and they don't post or comment, it could go dark

But if I comment then I'll break my 9 year record of being a lurker on social media!

Can’t we just upvote?

But, I'm a lurker.

Plot twist: All of the "bot accounts" were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we've sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.

About 15 years ago many of us left Digg and migrated to Reddit because at that time it became kind of what Reddit is right now without even all the API shit going on.

I have been hoping for something to replace Reddit for a few years now but it seems like every possible alternative would instantly become populated by the alt-right, people who got evinced from other platforms, instead of free software loving geeks and their relatives.

Reddit actually gave us the kick in the butt that we needed to start anew and make something better. I wanted to fight, I made the subs I managed private and then NSFW but I realize it is not worth spending the energy.

We are the people who made Reddit great but there is no point in trying to keep it this ways, it isn't even great anymore anyway. Let's not be slaves to a company that only cares about profit and acts as if we need them while the truth is that they need us.

Trying to make Reddit better, at this point, is like volunteering for Microsoft instead of contributing to open-source projects with the hope that they will become less oriented toward profits.

This is already a place we can call our own, all we have to do is to furnish it and make it a nice place to be for those who understand why it is worthwhile to do so. It is not the actual owners of Reddit that made it great, quite the contrary even, they keep on making it worst. It is us, the users who made it great and we can do the same here.

I am pretty sure Aaron Swartz himself would tell us to leave the site he created if he could communicate from his grave. There is no point in wasting energy for a company that wants to sell us NFTs, virtual gifts and rewards. I never bought any of this shit anyway but I am going to make Lemmy a donation right now!

Any good communities to recommend?

Well fuck

But what if I'm an introvert and like to lurk? Introverts unite! Separately! And in different places!

Image Transcription: Meme

[Two men next to one another in an office cubicle. The man on the left is sitting at a desk looking anxiously at the man on the right, who is standing and gesturing with his hands as he explains something]

Lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users

You gotta post or comment!

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

But it's scary

Bananas

Upvoting doesn't count as activity?

Here's my single comment contribution.

I'm doing my part 💪

First comment!!

Rabbits

I'll think about it

Lemmy become an active user then

“We are here! We are here! We are here!”

Gotta keep that ball rollin.

I like trains.

Ok

Rawr

I mean, I've had a Reddit account for 13-14 years, maybe even longer, as I was a lurker who bookmarked different subreddits, prior to making an account. In those years, I have commented maybe 5 times in total. So you dont get to tell me what to do, and I certainly won't be commenting on this post.

You’ve GOT to give

am I doing this right? can everyone hear me?

I am doing my part..

Ok

Ok ok

Hello

But I don't waaaaaannaaaaa

How is upvoting/downvoting not considered being active? :/

Honestly the only thing that's holding me back from using Lemmy is that it not having a good app. I truly tried both Jerboa and Connect.

Jerboa for me crashes a lot and Connect doesn't have a good content separation guides.

But I will be sticking at lemmy for the long run anyway

YOU GOTTA GIVE!

I am not getting notifications for replies to my comments on android, I have tried jerboa, summit, liftoff, thunder, and connect for lemmy

Am I missing something here? Are push notifications not implemented yet?

Active lurker

I’m doing my part

This is not a strictly commercial network. Do we really need useless comments or posts just to increase some stats numbers? I'd think about quality contents instead.

First comment...it's scary out here

I'm here... Even if I don't really understand how to use this platform - yet.

I'm doing my part!

Hey look. I'm active!