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
I'll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I feel reminded of the old days of the internet. It is invigorating discovering this Fediverse. Everything feels a lot more engaged than Reddit. I think it may be a good thing if this does not "take off" completely.
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.
This is the way.
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.
Not lurking is such a hard habit to break. Especially with the way Reddit sorts comments, I'm so used to clicking into a thread to find some insightful discussion or hilarious joke that had already been made. But I'm trying my best, even by writing this comment!
I lurked for years at Reddit before posting. doing it here on the first day
I just feel like I have nothing interesting to say:(
test post please don't ignore
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!
Honestly, I feel more comfortable participating on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit or Twitter.
Welcome to a better future everyone.
Me rn -
Alright... this marks the end of my lurking lifestyle then, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m here with you.
@bitsplease Hey all, I want you to think of this as rebooting the internet. YOU are the starter now. This whole fediverse concept is relatively new to a lot of people, but can make a whole lot of new websites be like what the internet was supposed to be. Please, be the forefront, be the internet you want to see. You can't lurk because without you, WE won't see anything. Content may be made by others, but you obsorb it and can pass it on. Just like gossip around the office, you have to be the one to help spread it otherwise there is no tea at the end of the day. This brought me out of my lurking shell. I've commented everywhere I even see! Join us! Share us! Be a part of this whole shift in the newest "generation" of internet!
Here's my first comment on Lemmy. I always lurked on Reddit, but I'll try not to here!
So far I am loving that the communities I've subscribed to on Lemmy are not only interactive, but that the people interactive are genuinely contributing discussion and perspective! It's sooo refreshing. I fucking love it.
As we get more people joining I'm sure that will slowly change; if Lemmy gets easier for people to join then it will change. If Reddit goes down completely it will definitely change: most casual redditors probably won't move unless Reddit itself no longer has the content they want.
But right now? Ahh... I'm enjoying Lemmy more than I have Reddit in well over a year.
I'm upvoting posts and comments, and I'm sporadically commenting in other users posts. But I'm still getting confidence to post things cause everything is new and I'm kinda insecure with the possibility of messing things up.
Interesting comment here, please upvote
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.
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 can't seem to post an image in a comment, does anyone else get the same?
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I wanted to post the starship troopers "I'm doing my part" meme
EDIT: I think it's my local instance.
In all seriousness: I am trying. Hard to break the habit of lurking. But on the other hand I'll often upvote something, so thats engagement right there :-)
edit: also since someone said "less memes" - I'd recommend you this watch on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If you want me to comment, there will be SOME memes. Heck, look at OP's handle, how did you expect me NOT to do it? :O
I think the presently smaller user base makes it easier to feel comfortable posting and talking, plus I feel as if many could be motivated to participate more because of the ideals the community upholds through FOSS. It certainly feels good to post here, a more guilt free experience.
Alright sir, I shall upvote and comment whenever I feel I have something useful to add!
I'll try my best not to be such a lurker. A fresh start on here might be what I need to get me out of my comfort zone.
wildly hits keys on the keyboard
I've just created !board_games@lemmy.ca and !tabletop_rpgs@lemmy.ca, does that count? :P
I've always been a lurker on the other site but I think I'll be much more active on here!
I think, for mass appeal lemmy will ultimatively need communities for popular topics (games, trends, etc.), which can bring in lots of new users. From what I've seen so far the topics are still rather niche, or can't compete with identical communites on major platforms. When the traction starts getting big enough, it might just run on its own.
This comment is also more or less a test, trying out the platform.
well this felt like a personal callout but i will try a little to do this, and to be active as a user rather than a lurker
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.
Bro literally triggered lurkers
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.
Reddit refugee here! Hope to see Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse become super popular down the line!
I remember reddit in 08 and it was better, less toxicity
I prefer to type my response then delete it without submitting.
I signed up... checks notes... 3 years ago?! I don't even remember why! But I haven't posted much or at all since then. Now that Lemmy is gaining traction and is becoming more active, I'm trying to contribute to it as much as I can. So far, I've tried to comment at least once a day.
One thing that might keep people off is how communities are created/duplicated on Lemmy. I mean you can have the exact same community but on different instances. Then you start asking yourself which one should I join? or perhaps both? This definitely will confuse people.
Me not lurking
Already been posting and commenting more than I ever did in countless years on Reddit!
I think on Reddit there was so many voices I hardly felt it was worth posting or commenting. Someone else would have already posted my thoughts and done it much more eloquently than I would have.
Here every little act of engagement helps, so I’m just jumping right in to posting & commenting without second guessing myself.
I was a Redditor for years and rarely posted anything and only sometimes commented. Predominantly a lurker but I have been doing my best to comment here the last few days, more than I have in the last 6 months on Reddit and feel less judged for comments. Reminds me of the early days of Reddit when things were simpler. Ah… very much a Pepperidge Farm remembers moment.
Don't tell me what to do!
Ah shit...
Ok, you win this round.
Based on my experiences on Reddit, I've honestly found that voting is not just incredibly easy¹, but also something that at least I found myself engaging with when I didn't want to write a comment myself LOL
¹ due to the very local results of votes in this kind of format, it doesn't have the same feel as, say, a thumbs up on YouTube (and I very rarely engage with thumbs up etc as a result there), if that makes sense? Like, it's limited to that particular level of the conversation
I feel like leaving reddit is a big change in my life. Hopefully, Lemmy takes off and remains a much more positive place.
It’s a bit difficult getting into Lemmy and the feediverse I gotta say. But after looking around for a while I really like how things work here, compared to reddit
I joined Lemmy today. I've been getting into Mastodon recently as well and I have to say the comfy feeling I'm getting from the governance resiliency of FOSS and federated spaces(FFOSS?) is wonderful. This has the same feeling as when I first tried GNU/Linux so many years ago. :D
I used to pretty much just lurk when I used reddit, I'd maybe post a comment every few months, but really I'd just lurk. I've easily past the number of posts and comments I ever made to reddit during the many years of using it daily. Initially I wanted to make an effort for Lemmy to succeed, obviously it has less people so as your post is suggesting, I was trying to do my part. I found I really enjoy posting here though, the community is really great.
Scraped my reddit account and here to post Manatee!
Hello, new reddit refugee here. I've been hearing about the fediverse and mastodon some time now. Heard about lenny a couple of months ago, but didn't feel the need to make an account at the time. With the dumpfire that's going on it reddit I figured it was high time I jumped ship.
I have a question that might sound stupid. Is there a way to get the same functionality as reddit's custom feeds in lemmy? Where you have multiple feeds that are "subscribed" to different sets of communities.
I’m here, I’m reading, I’m engaged in liking posts and voting, and thank you for the reminder to not lurk thanks reminds me of irc chat days
Aye, captain o7! I've pretty much always lurked online, something about making posts that will possibly be on the internet forever scares me. Despite my anxiety, I've posted some art on my Kbin account, might upload some cat pics soon too.
I never posted on Reddit but lurked it for years using Reddit is Fun. I feel like their decision to essentially kill third party apps is just the start of pushing terrible changes that will turn Reddit into something like Facebook.
After learning a bit about how Lemmy works I'm really interested to see how it grows! Without any one person or organization at the helm it'll be interesting to see what communities naturally flourish.
Just created a magazine for EASportsFC (formerly FIFA)! I kept looking to see if someone would make a magazine and just said why not make it myself. (insert squidward meme "when i’m in a worst moderator competition and my opponent is NeighborlyNomad")
e: link here! https://kbin.social/m/EASportsFC
I’m your huckleberry.
Hi, I'm here! Signed up on an instance a few days ago with all this BS going on at Reddit, and I just read the "AMA" with spez. Absolutely ridiculous. I would love to see Lemmy take off. Just trying to get the hang of it at the moment, and I hope an iPhone app comes.
I am glad u/iamthatis saved the recordings because u/spez is a liar. I live in a one-party consent state myself, so I know what u/iamthatis did was legal.
I think one of the challenges is explaining the concept of how instances work. How to visit other instances, etc. It's an issue mastadon has too. It's not very intuitive to the non-tech savvy.
I wanna see more hot takes in the gaming community. Let's get some arguments going people. Tell me what popular game is overrated garbage
I'm a little confused on how to find more communities to join. I'm on the feddit.nl instance, and I know I can subscribe to communities on any instance, but there isn't really a search button or anything like that, at least not on the Jerboa app. Is there, like, a user guide on how this shit works?
Agreed! I am curious with this, how did you guys find out about Lemmy? In my case, I was scrolling through Reddit and saw somebody talking about Lemmy. I researched a little bit and here I am! I would love to hear from y'all tho
It's really different compared to a lot of forums in the early days where everyone use to say 'lurk moar'
Been doing my part. Logged out of Reddit last night (will delete all data and then the account if no changes are made by the 29th). I wanna see lemmy get bigger and grow. Plus my favorite part of Reddit were the discussions and such, I want to see the same engagement here!
We are having a hard time now. Lots of issues due to the volume. We need to ramp up the server hardware.
I think part of that is the confusion around communities, how does a community on each instance mesh together? As people are being pushed away from the primary Lemmy instance due to overloading, the smaller ones look far less populated and lead people to feel that it’s a ghost town.
So when I follow /c/memes, am I following the one on my instance, the one on the first instance that created it or a hybrid of both?
Resisting the urge to lurk, it’s making the platform more enjoyable
Share stories, comment. Lurking doesn't generate content.
No Lurking from me!
In all honesty, Thankful to be here and have something to turn to. Excited to see the massive improvements Lemmy takes on over the coming months with traffic from reddit.
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!
It's hard being a lurker for so long, I only started interacting with a few smaller subreddits around sporting events and then within a year, all this crap started happening. Feel sorry for all the 3rd party developers, I used Boost and I'm glad I supported the developer over the years but can't believe how they ended up being treated. Death to Reddit
Love it! I lurked a lot on Reddit unless I had very specific questions--I think it's cool having an opportunity to grow a community.
Just downloaded and installed Jerboa on my phone. This is me trying to do my part to help out a user-friendly Reddit replacement.
I'm trying to not lurk, but it's a hard habit to break
Super excited to be here, honestly. Really hope this place grows significantly
i just feel so foreign still, then again, everyone does, but it's hard to find the will to interact when you feel foreign, ykwim? like being a stranger at a party, it's all fun and all but it feels pretty hard to just approach a random group of ppl and be like "henlo guys my name is johnathan and i'm here to show u my cat", lmao, but yeah you're right we gotta push it a little bit. no other way to start than by starting.
The best thing about Lemmy is that it's still so raw. There is so much potential for it to be turned into something really great. Then again, television was once like that, I suppose - so was the internet, now I think about it. Oh well, at least I'm not lurking.
F*ck /u/spez
EDIT: Spelling
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.
I'm trying to create a community, but the 'create' button just turns into a spinning circle, and nothing happens. I've left that tab open for more than an hour.
So insteat, here's my first comment.
Why hello I am literally just making this comment so more people see the post. My favourite thing about Fedi is how engagement works entirely different from proprietary social media. People make the Fediverse work, people being people make it such a lovely place!!
Question: If the equivalent Reddit subreddit doesn't exist that we use, should we create it? Or wait for the moderators from Reddit to create it?
Got to look around 1st
Was mostly a reddit lurker, have tried to change that by hosting my own lemmy instance and actually get involved in something!
Hi people!
You’re right lemmy could take off provided people engage. The transition is primed for thanks to Twitter educating us about the fediverse.
Lemmy is the light for all the reddit lurkers! We will get there!
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).
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.
Don't tell me what to do
I find it really hard not to lurk. So much so that the one time I got banned from a subreddit, I immediately unsubscribed from it because I knew someday I'd see something I wanted to respond to there and not being able to would be super annoying.
I really like kbin.social, but it's hard for me to figure out how to start a new Threaded post. I can add a new "article" or "link", but what about just a text post?
Also I am not sure how my home feed is populated - I can subscribe to federated stuff and local stuff, but most of what I'm seeing is not from anything I've subscribed to. Is it more like r/popular?
Less memes please
I used to lurk a lot of subreddits but I guess that will be no longer. RIP Reddit. Long live Lemmy!
Well I am somewhat of a lurker myself and came to know about lemmy recently. Commenting here for engagement and gonna try to be more active from now on.
I'd like to post things, but are the communities, instances or whatever superagressive if you "Post the wrong thing to the wrong place TM", even by accident or misunderstanding? I stopped contributing to Reddit because of it.
And can the post-box be at the top of the page, before comments instead of at the bottom?
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.
Set up my instance to come here to report that I am not lurking o7
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?
Good to see more comments than upvotes
I suppose. But only for a bit
I will try
My comments on reddit often got downvoted. Probably from me being uninformed or ignorant while commenting. This stripped me of motivation to be active in those communities. I will try to be more active in the communities on lemmygrad, commenting and posting in good faith, but not always being right.
Looking forward to be a part of an active leftist community, sharing articles, information, memes and much more!
Lurk, Mom! No Reddit!
Yeah, used to lurk on reddit but will definitely post more here! using this post to test out how commenting works here :)
Using the jeroboa app rn and it's fairly intuitive.
Hello World!
So, should we recreate our favorite subreddits to get them going?
I’m tired, boss.
Really excited to see what all this turns into!
Good call. I’m really digging it here. I have my home instance in programming.dev with a pretty relaxed community there, and I can subscribe to even the popular stuff.
I’m gonna stick this out awhile.
Lemmy reminds me of reddit is fun
It's lurkin time
Here leaving my comment in support to this. I wasn't really active on reddit.
This.
I suppose tonight.. Gehrman joins the hunt.
@bitsplease will do
Shush! let me lurk....oh no
But I have nothing interesting to say...
I've created 3 communities in 24 hours, I think that's enough for now. ;)
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
Hello everyone
I'm in! I've been trying to find a site that allows registration. So kbin, where do I go to find out about app, or app development, or developers I can donate to?
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.
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.
MEME TIME!
I think this will all be short lived and sadly most everyone will go back to reddit
maybe! but maybe it won't :)
It’s up to us to choose where we spend our time online. No matter what everyone does, we have the option to share the ineffable part of our humanity — our thoughts and words — wherever we like. We could choose a place that wants to capitalize on what we share, or we could choose a place where what we share is ours. Wherever and whenever we do post, click, engage — we cast our votes. My vote is for this truly public square, and I do hope a robust community develops here, whatever size it may be. :-)
Always a bad sign when one of the top comments is trying to compel users to engage.
@lemmy.ml
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
go to feed...
@lemmy.ml
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
go to feed...
I'll try
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