2y ago

Do your part, try not to lurk!

Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement

So even if you're used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they're more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they'll just go back to reddit

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- Cool, I didn't know we could embed images in posts and they'd show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.
  
  good to know!

I'll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
- I don't often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.
- unlurks
- Here’s my kitty cat Kira
- that's not a puppy, he's too big
- I like your puppy.
  
  Me too!

This is me not lurking
- Watch me engage with someone
  
  Watch me watch you engage with someone
- This is your friendly neighborhood deviant trying not to lurk

Big time introverted lurker on reddit, since here is a much smaller community, I don't feel so intimidated. I'll try to be more active here. Let's do this guys, let's create a great place for all the Reddit Refugees. FUCK u/Spez!
- FUCK u/Spez!
  Hey now, /u/spez is a hero - without him, Lemmy would never have taken off like it has lol

Definitely. Everyone on Lemmy at this time seems very reasonable as well and I am finding that the discussion is typically of a much higher quality than on Reddit, so for those who don't usually engage, try it, it's definitely worth a shot here.
- Reddit conversations have always been either “Google en passant” or something worthwhile, or the third one where it’s just an agreement. Can’t say I am not guilty of doing all of them.

Hey people of the internet. So if I’m going to not lurk, and if I have a really weird sense of humour and am downright unfunny to most of my friends, where is my community here?
- Yarp.
  
  I got a reply!

Don't tell me what to do, I'll engage when I'm ready >:(
hol up

Shush! let me lurk....oh no

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Honestly, I feel more comfortable participating on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit or Twitter.

It can be tough sometimes, but find those communities you already love and say something - even a little thing is engagement!

test comment please ignore

Was lurking on Reddit for 10 years, made just 9 comments that whole time; when there's so much noise you don't feel you have much to add to the conversation. But us lurkers have a chance to be heard in a growing community and help shape it in some way, gotta get out of my comfort zone I guess.

Alright... this marks the end of my lurking lifestyle then, I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I saw Lemmy has already grown a lot over the weekend and I'm all for it getting bigger! To be honest I also feel a lot more motivated to actually post here instead of lurk.
And the community seems super nice so far!

This is the way.
- This is the way.
  
  This is the way.

I think I've been more active on Lemmy in the past five days than I had been on reddit for the past 2 years.
Decentralization of social media is extremely enticing to me, and I really want this community to flourish, so I've been trying to make this into an active space.

Using the jeroboa app rn and it's fairly intuitive.

I won't lie, if you look at my Reddit profile you'll see that I've commented more here in the last couple of days than probably the last 3 years on Reddit. The community just feels more welcome and I feel as if my comment will get read instead of being drowned out as it happens on Reddit.
- @nathanpc @bitsplease test
- Same. Always kinda talked myself out of commenting on reddit because my comments would never be engaged with. Felt like I missed the boat there. Time to start over and build a new community.
  
  Either it doesn't get engaged with, or the people who engage with it have the reading comprehension of a carrot.
  I noticed you didn't explicitly say in your post that you don't kick puppies, so let me assume that you believe that is acceptable and then vividly describe what a horrible person you are. Also,
  Time to start over
  ...now that I've pulled a tiny portion of comment out of context to make it easier to attack, how dare you.
  
  Usually with Reddit you gotta be there early in a post to get interacted with. If it’s 5-6 hours since the post was made you’re only likely to get a few scattered upvotes.
  
  My comment would either get overlooked or it was literally walking on eggshells. Make an innocuous remark that somehow gets taken out of context and say hello to the downvotes.
- Yep, this is how i felt as well!

Another lurker here. Been well over a decade and this is the first time I feel like contributing again. Really hope the fediverse catches on this time.

Made an account 22 hours ago, been lurking around here and there, finally decided to post my first comment after reading this post. I'd like to get more involved, just trying to find my footing first. Speaking of - what app(s) is everyone using? I'm on Android, and just logged into Jerboa. Decent UI, not a fan of the flashing screen during transitions. Any recommendations on other apps? Thanks.
- Welcome here!
  For mobile apps: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ and !lemmyapps@lemmy.world

Me not lurking

Hi people!
- Heya! :)

I've just created !board_games@lemmy.ca and !tabletop_rpgs@lemmy.ca, does that count? :P

Ehm.. OK? Gosh, this is hard.

Lemmy sprawls thanks to his dislike of Reddit's new rules. This is both a virtue and a problem at the same time. Reading 1,000 "Reddit is about to fall apart" posts or copies of old Reddit posts is quite tedious. Oh yeah, there's also the defederation announcements, it's even more tedious to read that nonsense. Guys, you have not had time to consolidate, and already arranging a rant.

Same problem Mastodon had, the content consumers joined, but the content creators didn't, so there was nothing on the platform to engage with.
And let's be real, Lemmy is going to face the same fate when inevitably the Reddit protest ends in a couple days and everyone goes back to Reddit. Reddit is going to survive.
- I think a massive difference between Twitter and Reddit is that Reddit isn't very user-centric. It's not about building a "personal brand" or amassing individual followings.
  That's why I believe a decentralized Reddit clone (akin to Lemmy) has a much larger chance of thriving.

Testing cross-instance posting from my own
- "Test post please ignore" vibes
- How'd you find the setup process for self hosting? I've got half a mind to do the same. I've already got self hosted Audiobook Shelf and home assistant servers

Totally agree, we need to build for the long term. Engagement has power.

Long time no see, Lemmy. I hope Reddit ending is for the best, and I hope all my precious communities migrate to open source software.

but i don't have anything to say
other than fuck spez of course

Always a bad sign when one of the top comments is trying to compel users to engage.

This is kinda exciting ngl
- I really, really hope the open internet takes off again

I wonder if it wouldn't be wise to try and emulate some of the easier/more participatable subreddits here. Askreddit theads for instance are a big pull (even if they tend to be. well, redditors post on them use your imagination).
- I think there already is an asklemmy on lemmy.ml
- A lot of the subs are already up and running (HydroHomies, CasualUK, Solarpunk, Guitars, 196, FuckCars, etc) under their old names, some with variations. When you search the entirety of Lemmy, give it a moment because it takes a few seconds to retrieve.
  You can subscribe/unsubscribe with reckless abandon!
  (And search your favorites often, there is a steady flow of new communities being created right now.)

Trying my best! I have an account on lemmy.ml but with the increase in traffic I’m barely able to use it! Moving to this one which has already helped. Anyone reading this feel free to send a message and say hi!

There is no engagement algorithm; it's us :)
- I don't mean am engagement algorithm, I mean engagement as in content to engage with. No one is going to want to move to lemmy of they come here and it looks like there isn't anything going on

I lurk most of the time because most of the time i have nothing to say

Oh, that’s interesting, the reply box is all the way down here. I’ll see what I can do here as far as activity goes, I don’t know what fediverse is but it sounds like something worth taking part in.

You're right, I'll try. I enjoy reading, but often get overwhelmed with trying to respond, so I end up just giving up and not finishing my

Do we get any benefit from hosting our own Lemmy server? I am a tech nerd and love new IT projects. Sorry if this is off topic, please redirect me someplace else if there is a better thread to ask my question in.
- The main benefit is being in total control of your experience on lemmy
  If you're on someone else's server, you don't really have any control of federation, and your instance admins could just decide to defederate some instance that you enjoy seeing content from without your say. Similarly you may want to defederate from an instance, but on a public server you'd have to appeal to the admins to do so for the entire server.
  Other than that it's mainly a "because it's cool" thing

test post please don't ignore

Ok here's a meme that is unrelated to anything we're discussing but always cracks me up:

Interesting comment here, please upvote

After 14 years on reddit I’m tired of watching it die, the death of Apollo is what pushed me over the edge, I loved Apollo. I’ve been browsing in here for the past few days. I like it. Trying to get used to it. Fuck reddit and u/spez all of the situation was trash. Thank you all for recommending this site!! I’m excited to be apart of it!

I try but I rarely post. I did seem to kinda revive the !beeandpuppycat@lemm.ee community so that's dope. I hope people keep posting there.
- Feel free to promote it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world
  
  Already did hehehe
  
  Already did haha

I couldn’t agree more!
In effort to try to add value to posting, I found a mobile app for iPhone. It’s clearly in beta. I’m not associated with them at all, and I hope they don’t mind me posting the results of my Brave search.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc
- Replying from the Mlem app!
  Solid app so far, can’t wait to see future updates.

I feel personally attacked! I will not tolerate this, and I will do the one thing no lurker would ever think of under normal circumstances!
_Hello, _new _friends _🫡
- Hi fren!

Much of the meme content is in the form of GIF and as fare as I see, Lemmy does not support uploading GIFs. Will this format be supported in the near future?
- You can hyperlink to them, see my Rick and Morty gif a few comments above, i didnt upload that.

We also need more mobile clients like this one
- There are already quite a few on !lemmyapps@lemmy.world

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