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
This is me not lurking
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!
Oo oo I Wana try.
-edit- don’t use big pictures.
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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 lurked for years at Reddit before posting. doing it here on the first day
Same. I’m a long time lurker, but I definitely feel like it’s worth stepping out and helping get some engagement.
I’ll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
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
I’m just scared of everyone shitting on me tbh. My ego is too fragile for comments from strangers.
On no don’t tell me Candlejack has appeared on Lemmy alr
I’m pretty sure you’re safe from Candlejack in the fediverse, after all it’s
nice! :-)
test post please don’t ignore
But…but…I like lurking.
I’ve done more commenting in this thread today than I have on Reddit all year
I got woken up after 1 year of inactivity/lurking.
I feel that.
I just wanted to say that I am impressed with the mentality here. Everyone seems so engaged (at least at first now) that Lemmy feels alive although we are relatively few people, still. That reminds me somewhat of the early stages of the internet, when everything was still new and you felt special for being part of something big blowing up. Keep it up and try not to create redundant communities on every instance!
I think it’s kinda impossible to not create redundant communities. For example, people might not know about !technology@beehaw.org for example, and therefor create one at their local instance.
But I think that in a few months, you will see that certain communities at certain instances will be the “defacto” in a particular field.
Yes, but ideally you search for a few variations of a community before creating a new one :)
Completely agree with you there! But at the moment, federation is happening but a lot of the server’s are smoking quite a bit. So search might not be as reliable as intended.
Here’s my first comment on Lemmy. I always lurked on Reddit, but I’ll try not to here!
Welcome!
Same here - maybe this is the best thing to come from leaving Reddit.
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
Well, I did quite literally just get this instance set up, so I guess just posting random comments is necessary.
And random replies! Discussions are what makes a social media, social. :)
Replies?! Nobody told me there’d be replies!
oh, god! a human! quick… kill its API access!
I have to say, knowing we are humans talking to each other and not bots astro turfing everything, feels nice. Hopefully it lasts.
100% agreed, my friend. I have quite a bit of hope for this new frontier of federated social. we are going to have lots of growing pains but, for the first time, I think us plebs have a real say in our future.
You’ll take my API key from my cold dead hands!
corp dev: “sir, it’s libre open source and federated, we have no power over them!”
corp mgt: “…”
👍
Random comments
I have no idea what I’m doing
Not just Lemmy as a Reddit alternative, but I’ve fallen in love with the Fediverse in general. It’s kind of how I always imagined social media to be like, though it still has a ways to go and has been held back because “mainstream” platforms have monopolized users and power. I definitely want to be more active here.
To be fair, I’m not sure if it helps to generate “fake” activity. IMHO the migration to lemmy will only work if the content will at least have a minimum amount of quality. Just posting random memes is probably not a good way to start.