Do your part, try not to lurk!

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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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I'll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.

I don't often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.

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?

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

Hey now, I lurked on Reddit for years and it grew to be a huge success. I'm ready to repeat this bold strategy!

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

hol up

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.

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

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This is kinda exciting ngl

@BarneyKB @bitsplease It's very exciting!!! I'm just going to hold off a little bit until it gets to the early beta stage before standing up my own instance. That much said, I'm enthusiastically cheering the #lemmy devs on. Lemmy has good bones and a good plan of attack. I expect it only to improve.

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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!

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!

hello, fellow human!

Hello! I’m the same user, just moved to another instance!

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.

Testing cross-instance posting from my own

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

I have been way more active here than i have been on other platforms. I have what like 3 comments now? So that's not saying much ha.

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

But I have nothing interesting to say...

A large part of the conversations on this site over th last few days has been about a guy who didn't want to shit for 3 days, the bar isn't incredibly high lol

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.

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.

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

Is there any Android app that looks exactly like the website? I absolutely love the UI of the website but I prefer apps.

Most people are using Jerboa on Android. There are also some Reddit 3rd party apps, like RedReader, with plans to support Lemmy integration in the near future.

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

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!

Ditto for RIF on Android dying. Lemmy will take some getting used to, but I refuse to support reddit for killing my user experience.

Silly question maybe. How do I search for other servers to join when in an app? Is it possible? I’m using memmy for iPhone.

Anyone know if there is an app to use for IOS? I’m trying Mlem and I do like where they are going with the app it just bums me out how often it crashes. Also, I hope the influx of ex-Redditors really helps Lemmy and the Fediverse take off.

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

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.

but i don't have anything to say

other than fuck spez of course

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.

Yep, this is how i felt as well!

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.

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.

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.

Yes, communities where people discuss in good faith are so much more pleasant.

hol' up, comparing their reading comprehension to that of a carrot is an unfair insult to the average carrot.

and how exactly is the comparison? is it one carrot per person, or can a single carrot out-comprehend the whole lot?

Yep, felt the same way on reddit. Sometimes, I started writing a comment but then halfway through I thought to myself "can I really muster the energy to engage with people who just skim through it or aggressively pick it apart and write an essay on how right they are with sources either taken out of their ass or taken out of context just to suit their viewpoints?". So I just ended up deleting it and go back to lurking.

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.

It felt a bit off at first to not have the top comments all be the ones with the most votes, but I like how it works on lemmy after spending time here.

You can join an old thread and not feel like it's pointless to add to the discussion!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

There is no engagement algorithm; it's us :)

Well, I feel like you're talking directly to me so...here I am!

Granny always used to say if you have nothing clever to say it's better to stay silent

Well Granny never had participated in building up the community for a burgeoning federated social media network (I assume at least, I don't really know your grandma..)

Well that comment was my way of speaking up, I didn't want to just say hi

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).

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.)

If you just quit reddit because they dropped support for same mobile application there is a lot you should learn. Learn what free software is https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software learn about Aaron Swartz.

I don't understand. I love free software more than the average person, but I choose the communities I belong to based on more things than the license of the underlying technology. What else do I need to learn?

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

Yes, people who are leaving reddit are making Lemmy more active which was the only missing thing to make me delete reddit entirely. Before that it was too slow to get new content but now it is alright, thanx to reddit, long life to lemmy .