If you want Lemmy to succeed, stop lurking and contribute with some content:
What else do you suggest?
I posted maybe two dozen things, mostly text, and lurked maybe commenting 10 times a week, despite using bacon reader 16+hours a week. I'm trying to participate more by commenting. Maybe posting will become more of a thing if I find some relevant communities.
If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.
Upvote/downvote posts
Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)
This is absolutely correct! I’ve tried making a couple communities already, I’d suggest others do that too. Niche communities might not be too popular right now, but I think it’s a good idea to make them anyway, so when people come browsing here and see their favourite niche topic has a community already, they might make an account and post in it.
Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?
One of the things reddit has over its alternatives is the vast amount of content it already gathered over the years. Sharing that content here might give people more consideration to join. Also i get why people frown upon reposts, seeing the same over and over again. But there are always people who haven't seen it. So under the right circumstances i encourage reposts, especially with useful posts.
I've started taking some of the better content from r/nootropics and posting it in a new sub and crediting the user. Years of great info that will be stuck in Reddit if not brought over.
I think depending on the community, some may need reposts in order to get up and running here.
For example advice subs should probably repost any FAQs, links and usefull things they collected in reddit through the years
Some more ideas:
I suggest that:
Looks like there's a few of these! Good tool to search for these across Lemmy is Lemmyverse btw. I don't know if there's similar for Kbinstances yet.
https://sh.itjust.works/c/amitheasshole
https://lemmy.ml/c/aita
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/amitheasshole
I did just now find https://lemmy.world/c/aita if that helps anyone?
Looks like there's Photography@lemmy.ml, Photography@lemmy.world, TravelPhotography@lemmy.world, and Photos@lemmy.world.
This probably isn't exhaustive, but it's a start!
Genuine question: I've always used reddit as a source for information regarding work, hobbies and recommendations. Will I be able to type in ${topic} lemmy and get links to some real information in a lemmy "subreddit" regarding a topic without having to browse a top ten list of some fuck face?
in a search engine? sure, once instances get indexed
lemmy.ml is already searchable - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fediverse+site:lemmy.ml
Nice, because I think that is what lemmy or any other reddit substitute needs - searchability of the knowledge that is contained on that platform
Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?
We're gonna need NSFW content to make this baby successful.
Probably the easiest way at the moment would be to subscribe to those communities you're interested in and switch the feed to subscribed. Otherwise whether you're viewing local or all you're going to get some communities you may not be interested in seeing.
Personally I block the ones I really don't have an interest in, but I understand not wanting to if you don't have to.
It would also be helpful if mods understood that there are a lot of new users here so shitting on someone for making a mistake is only going to hurt the community. Redirection and corrections don’t have to come with shitty passive aggressive comments.
Another thing I think people could do, is to gather links to relevant smaller communities and post them to larger communities, to help discoverability.
@lemmy.world
Welcome to Lemmy.World General!
This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.
Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!
Also keep an eye on:
For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!
Rules and Policies
::: spoiler Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.
0. See: Rules for Users.
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@lemmy.world
Welcome to Lemmy.World General!
This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.
Feel free to ask here or over in: !lemmy411@lemmy.ca!
Also keep an eye on:
For more involved tools to find communities to join: check out Lemmyverse!
Rules and Policies
::: spoiler Remember, Lemmy World rules also apply here.
0. See: Rules for Users.
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Participate in discussions if you don't feel yet like posting new stuff, even small comments help building up a community.
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