I don't lurk just to lurk, I just have nothing to say most of the time. Still waiting on the niche reddit communities I was a part of to make it here, if they ever do.

Full-time lurker here, I'm trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.

I think we stand a chance of bringing over the best parts of reddit while leaving behind all the negative aspects, I think a lot of people who lurked before (myself included, <4000 karma after 10 years) will be much more willing to engage here.

Was a total lurker in reddit. No accounts, nothing. Just browsing the subreddits.

But I joined lemmy just to help the cause. And put up a good fight.

Yeah. I'm seeing myself using it more and more.

lil fun fact: Participating in social media can actually boost your mental health, while lurking around out of FOMO, doomscrolling , whatever else can make you less happy.

source:https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/...

I'm trying to comment more often, but I have anxiety issues. Baby steps.

Getting from "I reddit" to "lemmy post that" is hard, but I agree it's necessary to grow the communities.

I have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn't have Idea to post though, lol...

I'm not interested in maintaining a community (I don't have the time to be a moderator), but I have been trying to comment as much as I can. Also, if you think you have something to post about, just make a post.

More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!

I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was "look how much better we are than reddit".

Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.

If we comment even when we have nothing to say we end up with comments like 'this'

I'm a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?

That's what I've been trying to do myself. I'm really not an interactive kind of person on these online communities. I'm almost always a lurker, but I'm really trying to push myself to be more active, because I want an open-source and federated Reddit alternative (and ActivityPub in general) to succeed!

I wish I could just share my enthusiasm with everybody, but I get very anxious that what I'd find interesting people will find dull or maybe even troll... that's something I experienced with actual Reddit, I guess, and now it has carried over pretty much everywhere. I'll try my best because I want to contribute to a better experience not just for me but everybody!

I lurked on reddit but uh I'll make an attempt to post more

i would post but for now i don't have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway

Most users on any given platform are gonna be lurkers

Also...DON'T MAKE TOO MANY COMMUNITIES!!! I know we all have our favorite niche subreddits that we'll miss, but we need to reach a critical mass with a core set...and then organically break out communities into more niche communities.

I'd also like to post more but worry that I'm being narcissistic...Not everyone likes my weirdly-tuned ukulele music.

Let's face it. without shitposters and casuals a social network can't thrive. You need the chaotic energy it brings.

Yes, for sure we need content, but it's not helping for all us Reddit refugees to start spamming crap. What's needed here is good content.

It will happen as all the new users get settled and comfortable. If Reddit is an example, there will always be fewer people who create posts than people commenting, and fewer people commenting than lurking. It's human nature.

I'm not going to comment, just upvote. Wait...

good point. For the first time ever I am now a mod - wish me luck. Re-introducing: /c/theyknew

All the introverts: o.o'

That, and please stop talking about reddit so much, dear god. My feed is filled with reddit news, rather than the respective topics of each community I'm subscribed to.

I've already been enjoying posting to Lemmy/etc much more than I ever did Reddit.

Reddit always felt so set-in-stone and unchanging to the point that it made me feel like I arrived "late" to the party even though my first Reddit account was in I think 2015. Once somebody claimed a subreddit with an easy-to-remember name that was largely it, and if you disagreed with their moderating style you had to suck it up or make your own with a more obtuse name.

With Lemmy since everything's decentralized it feels much more... I guess open? If someone makes a !gamedev community that has iffy moderation issues or whatnot, I or someone else can also make a !gamedev comm on another instance without it being a problem at all.

First comment on Lemmy, I'll try my best not to lurk! Really hoping to see this thrive.

I always mostly lurked on Reddit for years from fear of being judged, I struggle with anxiety and feel like I won't contribute anything.

Let's also stop making self aware posts, and do memes and stuff. :)

I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions' parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.

Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that's obviously not happening all the time. Then there's what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it's determined to be a copy?

It's definitely tough to break the lurking habits.

I enjoy writing comments, but not so much making posts. Does this make me a "partial" lurker?

Reddit-lurker for 9 years. Starting off with a comment event before understanding how this thing works. The sky is the limit from here on!

I went from 15 years of lurking to making several communities and modding a couple others. This is definitely the most I've ever been engaged in online communications. I love it!

Woohoo... First comment :)

Pretty much only lurked on reddit. Gonna try to turn a new leaf and be more social

Already spammed "shitposting" community with...shitposts. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

I made a community called cringeworld for fans of the old cringe subs

c/cringeworld

I have always been a lurker on reddit and most social media, but Lemmy does make me want to contribute with posting and commenting.

One thing I miss and intend to build as I get more time is indexes and big posts I saw in subreddits of my interest, it would be a good thing to start migrating to Lemmy, for example.

I've already made more comments and posts than I ever did on Reddit. I'm doing my part! o7

I'm not ready for this responsibility.

I love the feeling that I can post here without feeling insecure. Everyone seems well meaning and welcoming

Here from reddit.

I normally lurk, but I feel more comfortable posting here than on Reddit for some reason. On reddit I would mostly just upvote or downvote posts and move on.

No posts yet, but I think I've already commented more here in a few days than my last 5 years on Reddit.

I'm not a particularly entertaining or creative person outside of my music (which I don't think anyone would care about), but I do like to post and interact with text posts like AITA/NoStupidQuestions/ChangeMyView/etc, so I look forward to taking part there.

I’m doing my part!

Don't tell me how to Lemmy...

I mean you're right.

You're not the boss of me. Lurking has been a tried and true past time of link aggregators since time immemorial. If this community can't function without lurkers, it's DOA.

I'm not much of a content creator... But I love following contents creators... Am I useful?

Just did my part by posting my pup in the cute cats and dogs thing.

Fine. But only long until it gains adoption. Then it's back to the shadows.

One un-ironic way to have a boom in content and users is expanding the amount of porn on the fediverse. That had a massive contribution to tumblr and reddit

Ive been doing just that, decided to go in at the deep end and make my own Digital Art community, its fun watching it grow, its already coming up on 100 subscribers, and i plan on openeing up submissions at around 200 subs since then people will have a decent size community to see the posts.

It seems the world is indeed what we make of it. Join us!

Finally found an instance that could handle the traffic.

I've been a lurker on reddit for the most part and it seems easier to talk on Lemmy. I guess because it's a smaller community, or because your instance feels a little more private.

I lurk therefore I am.

My content is pretty shit, but I'll glady support and comment on you more interesting folks' stuff!

I'm working on it, but I'm trying to refrain from making dozens of posts on a community I created. However, I'd have no problems doing so.

Posting to unlurk myself. It's... haaard to kick the habit.

I’ve been participating a lot more here because it feels like my contributions have more impact than they did on Reddit.

I gotta stop lurking...

hello, just moved here from reddit

looking good so far!

I see a bunch of "community squatting" - people creating communities but not contributing, hoping it'll take off.

As good etiquette, I'd suggest that if you create a community, try to post something yourself!

Good practice; See a post that might fit a theme sutiable for somewhere else? Cross post it to a place that it suits. You can go to the community and search for a place like "Facepalm" and crosspost it there.

I have been trying to raise interest for other communities Mildly Infuriating has hit 2.81K members which is staggering, I'm honestly so happy to see it but we still have a way to go. I have every desire to spread the people of the community around as it's a win for Lemmy and a spite to Reddit. It's in our interest for the fediverse to explode and grow with content.

It's why I'm also advocating for communities to partner with each other. You can place links to other communities that may have a similar theming that other people might like. It would be a great way to offer up more content, and give that much needed love to communities starting and growing! <3

As a lurker I agree

I've been lurking on Reddit for years now but now that I've switched to Lemmy, I'll probably participate in discussions more. Plus, the vibe is so much more positive and welcoming here than on Reddit!

I have a broad question. Forgive me if it's dumb as I am not super technically savvy.

Is there a way to put a massive set of common image memes into a pool we can pick from and just have something point to that image? I keep reading that storage space is quickly going to be an issue for instances, and that seems like a good way to reduce some data.

Alright, I usually lurk, but I started off here by creating a community of my favorite game.

Good point, I started a ukulele community a few hours ago but I've no real idea how to publicize it or add more people.

I've been tryna make c/football pretty active by posting transfer news haha, used to just read what other people sent instead of going to Twitter myself but now...

I’m at least trying to comment more on posts. Breaking the lurker habit is hard.

I was mostly a lurker at reddit, but I'll definitely try to be more active here, especially in this early phase of migrating away from reddit

It's a good mentality to have.

I kept looking for communities and not finding them, so I started making them. Then adding posts to those communities, and to my surprise people do come and upvote and comment.

Currently I'm in the explore phase where I look left and right and find where I should put myself in, but yes of course after this phase end, I will try to contribute more!

Hello everyone! I must say that it's a bit confusing and all, especially finding new communities. But it seems like it has lots of opportunity!

Ok, buddy. I'll test cross-commenting here, if you don't mind.

E: nice

This comment is my first contribution to the platform. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing yet, but I'll figure it out.

My worry is that I only started a year or so ago on that other platform, and most of my contributions are comments and some photos when I can get my garbage podunk internet to let me upload the latest smoked meat or garden haul. I don't think I'm a "laying the groundwork" type of user, honestly. If there are any guides or walkthrough on navigating instances and whatnot, I'm all eyes.

I already reeeeeally miss a couple wonderful communities. But I want the best versions of them here, if at all. I'd love to help expand this place.

I guess there could be worse first comments for an account.

ETA: spelling is hard.

Is there a way for people to express interest in new communities, and for people to help set them up and circulate when it's there?

I know it doesn't exactly seem hard, but it's enough of a barrier for someone who's already feeling hesitant.

@GatoB I'm trying to make the best effort I can, I started a London community at feddit.uk/c/london and been making content for it and cross posting whatever I come across that could work there. So far I gotten around roughly 50 subscribers and some engagement in my posts. I'm reaching out for engagement so if you want to join in and make this something I'd really appreciate it.

... Or if you want to lurk I'm good with that too, I'd appreciate the eyes more then anything at this point.

While I only lurked on reddit, looking forward to a fresh start without all the bots. Planning to start contributing and focus more on hobbies than doomscrolling and nonsense

Hello everyone! I must say that it's a bit confusing and all, especially finding new communities. But it seems like it has lots of opportunity!

First I need to understand how all this works. fedia, lemmy, mastadon, fediverse, etc. I don't really understand what it all is and how it works. Suggestions from one user to another from a different "place" don't translate. Someone told me to look at /all. Like, where is that? I don't see anything like that. It's all a confusing, jumbled mess. It's melting my brain and I don't know if I can stick around. I don't see any kind of notifications either, so if someone responds to me, I probably won't see it unless I remember where I posted and to go manually check.

But. . . my content is terrible. . . It's like stale chips. You'll eat them if you have to but you won't enjoy it.

Does avidly upvoting comments count?

We need accessibility first, honestly the site is kinda confusing and acts weirdly on mobile and the official app is the same, both of these two need to use simple design, the android app is focusing on material you theme but most of the people here I believe the want usability rather than asthetic, I know it's free and hard work that I'm criticising, but we simple users need to build and make the communities better while the developers working on the site and the accessibilities, together we will break the chain of proprietary.

Would it be a good idea to cross post large amounts of old Reddit content?

It will come naturally after api change is done. Yesterday we had a chance to testdrive new user influx before the bigger wave after 3rd party apps are cut. Let's see how many users are going to endure reddit's native app.

I was looking for a reddit alternative that was similar to how mastodon works and found lemmy. I don't like mastodon very much, but I thought the mastodon concept works much better when you have smaller communities decentralized over multiple instances. Kind of like all those bb-forums back in the day, but through a single interface/client.

So naturally, I do like Lemmy but it still kind of has the same problems I have with Mastodon. I want to go into detail in a full post at a later time, but in general it comes down to the user experience not being great. I have quite a lot of ideas for improvements

Even bad content is still content and gets more engagement than nothing.

👀 if we just make content about saying that we should make content does it count as actual content?

Well see it this way , when more people join the more is attractive to companies and they will definitely figure how to ruined it. The best example is email , it was federated but if you run your email server they dont like you.

I'll post when I have something worthwhile to post. Lemmy should go for quality over volume.

I'm yet to find a way to see memes etc. But I'm sure with the influx of people it will all come together

Sadly I'm really busy with uni right now, but it seems like a good site to spend time with. More like a 2014 and earlier organic kind of spend time rather than a modern algorithm sickness kind of spend time. I'm actively participating in whatever seems interesting.

I've officially exceeded my reddit post count, not saying much, but I'm trying

I'll probably get around to making some of the communities that I miss. I don't know that I have time to moderate, so it's still up in the air.

Tell us how to create communities!

Where can I start my own community? There's some things I want but I dont wnat to host my own instance.

I'm happy to make content again, I was more active before karma mattered, as the bots and reposters took over I (and I think many) stopped.

Fired up my own instance to spam it with all the things, please remember to subscribe to communities on multiple instance's and support small instances!

100%. No one is here from my niche interest so I made a community and I'm going to post in it every day.

Okay, I'll try my best.

Don't tell me what to do! Heheheheh

Easier said than done. Every time I try to post something it just hangs.

I just created my own personal community since I don't want to jump right into posting in others' communities without lurking for a while.

Folks are welcome to check it out: lemmy.world/c/utopianfiat

I'll try my best to post, however, on reddit, I was usually a lurker who never ever posted. Only commented. (Sometimes)

Don't tell me what to do!

If you post it, I will comment.

I hope someone makes a standard issue cat community.

Trying!

I would post images first and foremost, but I've veen having troubles doing so. Maybe in a few hours I'll be able to post some OC memes or something of the sort

I'm fairly sure the kind of person to make content is more likely to move to other services like this

100%. We're showing Reddit right now the power of community.

I'm here. I last commented on Reddit many moons ago but I'm here

Its a hard habit to kick, especially for the casual user.

Just joined today but currently loving the default browser layout, will see what communities are available and start making content.

Hey! I'm keeping this as it's targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

i'm heeeeeeeeeeeere! I wasn't aware there were tons of people already here!

I'll start posting content as soon as the server stops being overloaded ;) My first 3-4 attempts at submitting a post timed out so far. For some reason comments seem to work fine, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55fqjw2J1vI&ab_channel=NMcC

aaaaaaaaaand POST!

I think I saw some thread requesting ideas for new communities. I just can't find it again, but it's a great idea.

Less experienced users could just comment what they need and more experienced users could create the communities for the most upvoted ideas and thereby having a userbase from the beginning.

Is there an iOS app?

Did you guys keep your Reddit name to be recognizable or did you make a new one to start over??

But that's so much work

hi

I will never make content

I am jumping in here as well, so far so good!

I will try to do this, Im a new user here since 10 minutes or so :)

roger that

I'm doing my part!

I'd love to, but right now I'm still dipping my toes in. I had really started to hone my reddit accounts and found good communities. I happened to find out that r/startrek had permanently moved to Lemmy through my Mastodon account so I've been trying to rebuild my interests from there.

I got a buncha communities setup though I'm still debating on the best way to share em, since obviously don't wanna go all on the self promotion stuff and all, but engagement always helps out.

I agree- but, I really wish some of these bugs were ironed out.

If, I was not getting random errors popping up every few minutes, and tons of latency, I would be much more willing to start putting a lot more content here.

Also, still learning how the federated communities works...

I made a bunch of communities and subscribed to others on different instances, hope other people will post as well!

It was the same for me at Bluesky. I rarely actually post because it was like entering a party that had already begun, and you had those cool guys that already knew each other mingling! But Lemmy World has a different tone to it haha, I'm sure that will help. #WalleyWorld

There's one thing i need to know before trying to make content here. Does this platform have any showstopping issues? Mastodon has one where you can't view older content from other instances without going to that instance first. On mobile you can't even do that. If there's something like that here then I don't have much reason to go all in yet.

Agreed, I tried to use lemmygrad.ml when my reddit account got banned before but I eventually went back to reddit because there wasn't much activity. I hope people stay and continue adding content.

Time for this to go back to the top.

I knew my 200gbs of memes only me and my brother find funny would come in handy!

Would be great to do on an official lemmy app. I hope they will create soon.

But lurking go brrrrrrr

ads are terrible lurker candy. some are just scrolling ads. they will miss them telling them what to do

First comment!