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.
Be the change you want to see! In one week I've made more comments on here than the last two years on Reddit. If the communities you want don't exist, start them up and post the type of content you'd like to see.
I only lurked on reddir but here saying something feels more impactful somehow. Post some fleeting thoughts to begin with, it helps to pump up our rookie numbers.
Try starting small. Reply more. Little things like that. Everything helps. Remember that we are interested in what you have in your life that you would like to tell us about.
The barrier to entry is way lower in a community this size. You don't have to have the most witty thing to say or the hottest meme to share. Your comments and posts will probably be seen by more people than in the "viral or bust" of a bigger site. It's a totally different kind of usage and definitely makes me feel more engaged
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.
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.
It's way better participating. I lurked on Reddit and things like it for years before I got the courage to speak up. I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing. Eventually I realized I'm not nearly the dumbest one, who cares lol.
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.
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.
Same. What's kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren't a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don't feel like you are being drowned out
Agreed, I want to participate, but I have neither the time, nor the desire to be a moderator. I've subbed to a bunch of communities so far, but there are also lots that I would subscribe to that don't exist yet. Or maybe they exist somewhere, but finding them is not obvious.
I’m on mobile on an iPhone and it really does not like it. I was only able to create an account through my iPad, and the page froze when I tried to comment on my iPhone (it still went through though).
Anyways, as confused as I am about this fediverse stuff, I really like it here and will try to comment and post when I can!
I thought it was working alright in Edge on iphone. It was definitely looking better then old.reddit does on any iphone browser.
But you can get the Mlem app thru the Test Flight app on iphone. It's still being developed so it's a bit rough. But it's showing a whole lot of potential.
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!
Same. I was a long time lurker on Reddit, but hardly posted. Even on alts. Now I'm trying to be more active and upvoting since that helps drive engagement or whatever.
I also want more open source in life, in general so I will be out here attempting to pause my introvertness for the cause.
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!
personally i liked having debates with people in the comments. Sometimes i'd make a dumb joke about the post, but most of the times i'd just be completely silent
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.
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 don't think the hierarchy you described is human nature but the effect of the state of affairs on Reddit. Think of Lemmy as a more chaotic version of Reddit where the status quo has not yet developed. Speak up your mind and help building the Lemmy status quo.
I don't know, I've been a manager for a lot of years, and I see the same dynamic/breakdown on my teams. A small percentage are willing to bring up a topic with the group, no matter how candid and accepting the atmosphere is. Once they do, there are more who will chime in on it to agree or disagree. But half the group will generally stay silent, but might come to me later 1 on 1.
I found some instance settings mean that not all communities in other instances show up in jerboa.
If thats the case then going to your instances home page on the web, searching communities there by url and pasting the full url of the community on the other instance may fix..
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.
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 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?
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!
I've just discovered the app Jerboa. It's available for Android, don't know about Apple. Not shilling but it's a great experience really. I was using Relay for Reddit and I feel right at home. Really have to recommend it!
Finding it challenging to get my head around this federation concept but I have a kbin.social account also. Hopefully someone will make a good YouTube introduction to the whole affair. Happy to be here, and hats off to the Devs.
I just don't like using web versions of stuff. I like apps. Jerboa isn't bad, and I imagine it'll improve if/when more people start using it. I just started, came from Reddit when the subs went dark, but so far I like it here, and I like Jerboa.
Im using mlem for iOS, but find the web experience better. Came from Apollo app for Reddit. Can’t wait till the proper iOS apps get made or mlem gets closer to how Apollo used to be!
mlem is off to a great start for such a young app! Be keen to see how quickly it's developed, there's a few UX and site features that would go a long way. I hope it takes off.
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 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.
This kind of feels like the way reddit did more than a decade ago. It's not nearly as busy as when I joined reddit in 2011, but the comments feel more approachable, more engaging, more human.
Nothing really, although I imagine if a particular instance was getting overrun with bots the admin or mods would probably step in and possible prevent new accounts from signing up or something
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.
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.
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!
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
That's a good point. A lot of time I want to say post something, but someone else said it better or faster. I just end up writing a draft post and then deleting it before I submit.
So now I won't. Your easy goal of say something nice is a great goal to have. I'll keep this rambling and I will say more nice things to people cause of your post. Thanks.
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.
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
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.
A big pool will go down or encounter copyright issues. In the end the internet is a network of physical devices on which we put stuff. If you have a couple of bucks available, you can rent a vServer and just put your stuff there and make it linkable + tagged. If a bunch of people do it, a lemmy community with a link collection could provide this. But it always needs some person to put it up, otherwise it's just back to the big corporate silos.
I'm trying to do this bit by bit by renting some machine from Hetzner, starting with a blog or sth.
Edit: Just found Pixelfed, a federated image hosting platform :D
The problem is that photos even though they look similar they are different because some people instead of saving the image they take a screenshot. I think what you say is posible but I dont know if it is worth it right now, we need to fix the bugs and then add cool features
IPFS would be perfect for this. Each instance would pin the image, and your instance would be a "gateway", helping to distribute media when its requested. IPFS assigns a CID to every file so the same meme posted twice would have the same CID.
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 wish these would be linked somehow. I just spent a couple mins figuring out what to do with that. Ideally it should be tap to see and another tap to subscribe. First I tried to search, then went to communities to search and pick closest match - with more traffic I guess it will include picking the right instance.
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!
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.
I have no interest in running a community, does starting the community mean you're responsible for it here? How does it work? Can I start one and not be responsible for it?
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.
I better start seeing smoked meats posted on this shit.
Got any recommendations for quality beef jerky or anything of the like that will ship in the States? You've got me hungry now.
I guess tonight I learn how to make a smoker instance(?)!
Just did a 10lb Boston butt for a cabin trip this past weekend. May have a few photos...
Also, sorry, but zero idea on beef jerky that ships. Are you meaning like a brand of some that can be purchased online? I'll do some research! Orrrrrr... Once I figure it out, you can post that question in the smoker Instance!
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.
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
@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.
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.
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
The forest would be quiet if only the best songbirds sang.
You can have a happy medium between quality and quantity. Lemmy is still new enough that we don't have to worry about oversaturation yet. Let's keep growing.
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.
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 haven't not considered opening my own instance of some flavor named "fuck.spez" or "fuck.you" if i dont want to get sued, scrape the front page of reddit by top 100 subreddits and repost them verbatim. The only (and obvious) obstacles are i have no money so no website.
I think what i'd do is make the instance not possible to sign up for and it'd be exclusively for other instances to federate with for free content? I'm not totally sure if that's how it works though.
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'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!
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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 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...
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.
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anas@lemmy.world · 98 pts · 3y
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.
MostlyGhost@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 3y
GatoB@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 3y
Upvoting is also important to make the best content appear on top
mantisteabaggin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Upvoting isn’t working for me. I click it, watch it change, then after about 2 seconds the upvote goes away.
Ashhwaghandaa@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
I was having the same problem, but if you refresh the page it should stay blue :)
This also works if your comments aren’t appearing.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
And comment if you even have something remotely decent to say. And add a profile picture.
Lemmington@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 3y
Be the change you want to see! In one week I've made more comments on here than the last two years on Reddit. If the communities you want don't exist, start them up and post the type of content you'd like to see.
Gundam@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
But how does one even start your favorite subredditd again? I want to do Aquariums but have no clue
saltylefty@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
lemmy.ca/c/aquariums exists and could definitely use some content
StringTheory@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y
First search “aquariums” and see if someone has an aquarium community running - they are roaring into existence hot and fast!
GatoB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
That quote is so good
WillNeverCommentV2@lemmy.film · 14 pts · 3y
Ditto, feels like we are just standing around a big semi empty gymnasium waiting to find all the other weirdos who like what we like again.
bad_alloc@feddit.de · 7 pts · 3y
I only lurked on reddir but here saying something feels more impactful somehow. Post some fleeting thoughts to begin with, it helps to pump up our rookie numbers.
Gundam@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
purplepony@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 3y
Full-time lurker here, I'm trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.
TigerClawTV@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
Try starting small. Reply more. Little things like that. Everything helps. Remember that we are interested in what you have in your life that you would like to tell us about.
maxficco@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 3y
GatoB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
I also was a lurker but making content can be fun
bloodsangre7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
The barrier to entry is way lower in a community this size. You don't have to have the most witty thing to say or the hottest meme to share. Your comments and posts will probably be seen by more people than in the "viral or bust" of a bigger site. It's a totally different kind of usage and definitely makes me feel more engaged
purplepony@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Yeah, I'm realizing that and it feels great.
apollon@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 3y
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.
kiriakos@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 3y
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/news/features/social-media-positive-mental-health/
okfuskee@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
I'm guilty of said doom scrolling. I'm gonna do a thing though and break the cycle! :)
darkstar@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
Interesting, thanks for linking (see, I'm trying to engage and not just lurk)
D3F4U1T_ARS@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 3y
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.
kool_newt@beehaw.org · 18 pts · 3y
It's way better participating. I lurked on Reddit and things like it for years before I got the courage to speak up. I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing. Eventually I realized I'm not nearly the dumbest one, who cares lol.
D3F4U1T_ARS@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Agreed.
For me it wasn't about fear. I was just too lazy to make an account XD
But yeah, participating is more fun than watching for sure.
wheresyourshoe@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
I'm really liking it, too. I was fairly active commenting on Reddit, was a user for over 15 years, but this feels good.
paorzz@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 3y
I'm trying to comment more often, but I have anxiety issues. Baby steps.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 32 pts · 3y
Getting from "I reddit" to "lemmy post that" is hard, but I agree it's necessary to grow the communities.
B4tid0@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Okey , the way you wrote that pretty neat chief
s4if@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3y
I have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn't have Idea to post though, lol...
dystop@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 3y
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.
idle@158436977.xyz · 30 pts · 3y
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.
Astrovenator@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Same. What's kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren't a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don't feel like you are being drowned out
clueless_stoner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
scutiger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Agreed, I want to participate, but I have neither the time, nor the desire to be a moderator. I've subbed to a bunch of communities so far, but there are also lots that I would subscribe to that don't exist yet. Or maybe they exist somewhere, but finding them is not obvious.
Mallowmarsh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I’m on mobile on an iPhone and it really does not like it. I was only able to create an account through my iPad, and the page froze when I tried to comment on my iPhone (it still went through though).
Anyways, as confused as I am about this fediverse stuff, I really like it here and will try to comment and post when I can!
boogers19@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
I thought it was working alright in Edge on iphone. It was definitely looking better then old.reddit does on any iphone browser.
But you can get the Mlem app thru the Test Flight app on iphone. It's still being developed so it's a bit rough. But it's showing a whole lot of potential.
Mallowmarsh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
That’s awesome, thanks!
TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
yeah the iphone site sucks. i cant even download the app bc you have to be 18 to use testflight.
bluemoose@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 3y
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?
solivine@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 3y
If we comment even when we have nothing to say we end up with comments like 'this'
true_blue@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 3y
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!
GatoB@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
That is the mentality that everyone should have
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 3y
Same. I was a long time lurker on Reddit, but hardly posted. Even on alts. Now I'm trying to be more active and upvoting since that helps drive engagement or whatever.
I also want more open source in life, in general so I will be out here attempting to pause my introvertness for the cause.
Turbosforsatan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Yeah same here, never felt comfortable posting on Reddit, but so far lemmy feels safe enough to get more involved with.
dear_faye@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y
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!
skye@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y
i would post but for now i don't have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway
cookiecollision@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Same here - I was never an active poster, but I love commenting! Must have something to do with our personalities.
skye@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
personally i liked having debates with people in the comments. Sometimes i'd make a dumb joke about the post, but most of the times i'd just be completely silent
cookiecollision@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Angry, pointess debates are so fun lol. They're my guitly pleasure
skye@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
i don't really get angry in debates but yes it's fun. it's also funny seeing the person i'm debating get angry
Veilus@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 3y
I don't get angry either but I do love feeding the trolls and/or trolling the people I strongly disagree with
UpChuck@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
You know you misspelled a word there. Don't expect me to hold your hand in figuring out which one.
cookiecollision@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I'll have you know I graduated college magna cum laude. There is literally no way that I misspelled a word.
Carlspanks@latte.isnot.coffee · 1 pts · 3y
Lol what's your favorite debate that you would go into on reddit?
wheresyourshoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Me too. I love interacting with content, but I am not a content creator.
kzhe@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y
I lurked on reddit but uh I'll make an attempt to post more
Yabai@beehaw.org · 25 pts · 3y
Most users on any given platform are gonna be lurkers
BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one · 9 pts · 3y
Toilet readers.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Most are but at the beggining we need content to be lurked
carlyman@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 3y
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.
Voran@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 3y
I'd also like to post more but worry that I'm being narcissistic...Not everyone likes my weirdly-tuned ukulele music.
cornballdefense@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 3y
Well no one's gonna get a chance to like it if you don't post! ♥️
Voran@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 3y
Hehe true, well here's today's recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiqCaua1lFA
flamingarms@beehaw.org · 7 pts · 3y
So sick. What do you call it when something feels old-world but also futuristic? Love how you shot this too.
Voran@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Thanks! Glad you liked it! I saw that uke online and just had to have one, the neon lights looked so fun.
I don't actually know a good word for old fashioned but also futuristic.
LevelUp@dataterm.digital · 1 pts · 3y
I call it retrofuture but I'm sure there's actually a real term for it haha.
cornballdefense@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 3y
Thank you for posting! It was so immediately evocative.
Voran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Thanks for kind words, glad you enjoyed!
LevelUp@dataterm.digital · 1 pts · 3y
I hope this isn't a stupid question but is that ukulele glowing or is that just the lighting? It looks pretty cool!
Voran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Yes it's glowing, there's LEDs in it :D
LevelUp@dataterm.digital · 2 pts · 3y
It's amazing! Thanks for sharing that vid.
Voran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
^_^ glad you liked it!
gaylord@lemmy.k6qw.com · 3 pts · 3y
dont get in your own head man, relax and just do you
Voran@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Thanks for kind words ^_^
ichschaunur@feddit.de · 23 pts · 3y
Let's face it. without shitposters and casuals a social network can't thrive. You need the chaotic energy it brings.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 3y
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.
Yodadidas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
I don't think the hierarchy you described is human nature but the effect of the state of affairs on Reddit. Think of Lemmy as a more chaotic version of Reddit where the status quo has not yet developed. Speak up your mind and help building the Lemmy status quo.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I don't know, I've been a manager for a lot of years, and I see the same dynamic/breakdown on my teams. A small percentage are willing to bring up a topic with the group, no matter how candid and accepting the atmosphere is. Once they do, there are more who will chime in on it to agree or disagree. But half the group will generally stay silent, but might come to me later 1 on 1.
bquinlan@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
I'm not going to comment, just upvote. Wait...
Probably_a_witch15@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 3y
And I just upvoted yours. Upvote-ception?
bquinlan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
And now it is fully recursive. Thanks! 🙃
plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org · 21 pts · 3y
good point. For the first time ever I am now a mod - wish me luck. Re-introducing: /c/theyknew
astanix@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
One of my issues is I can't just click that in Jerboa. And if I could, what instance is it even on? Hmmm.
plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y
Mine too. And I wish I could have tapped on your reply to get back to the context of the thread. Early days I guess.
Anyway i have included the full link now - thanks for pointing this out.
dystop@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Is this it? New to this cross-instance thing too.
https://lemmy.world/c/theyknew
plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 3y
Huh. I created mine on the sdf instance because searching for it yielded nothing. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/theyknew
FartFace@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I found some instance settings mean that not all communities in other instances show up in jerboa. If thats the case then going to your instances home page on the web, searching communities there by url and pasting the full url of the community on the other instance may fix..
eskimofry@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Good luck :)
eskimofry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Mentrix@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 3y
All the introverts: o.o'
ngoomie@pawb.social · 20 pts · 3y
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
!gamedevcommunity that has iffy moderation issues or whatnot, I or someone else can also make a!gamedevcomm on another instance without it being a problem at all.quarterlotus@beehaw.org · 20 pts · 3y
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.
pyska@lemmygrad.ml · 19 pts · 3y
Let's also stop making self aware posts, and do memes and stuff. :)
RedundantObsession@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
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!
LizardWizard@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
It's definitely tough to break the lurking habits.
ThatOneDudeFromOhio@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
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?
falconfetus8@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
I enjoy writing comments, but not so much making posts. Does this make me a "partial" lurker?
JCSpark@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 3y
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!
stargazer@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y
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.
Hyperslob@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3y
Woohoo... First comment :)
cookiecollision@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Welcome, hyperslob!
Hyperslob@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Thanks cookiecollision.
I've just discovered the app Jerboa. It's available for Android, don't know about Apple. Not shilling but it's a great experience really. I was using Relay for Reddit and I feel right at home. Really have to recommend it!
Finding it challenging to get my head around this federation concept but I have a kbin.social account also. Hopefully someone will make a good YouTube introduction to the whole affair. Happy to be here, and hats off to the Devs.
wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Day one here for me, also using Jerboa on Android. So far it's working perfex@!+/"""
GatoB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I use the web version because the app has some bugs
wheresyourshoe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I just don't like using web versions of stuff. I like apps. Jerboa isn't bad, and I imagine it'll improve if/when more people start using it. I just started, came from Reddit when the subs went dark, but so far I like it here, and I like Jerboa.
Carlspanks@latte.isnot.coffee · 1 pts · 3y
I only like using apps too
wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I was only joking, the app is working well enough for me so far.
Ashatmapants@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Im using mlem for iOS, but find the web experience better. Came from Apollo app for Reddit. Can’t wait till the proper iOS apps get made or mlem gets closer to how Apollo used to be!
g0nz0li0@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
mlem is off to a great start for such a young app! Be keen to see how quickly it's developed, there's a few UX and site features that would go a long way. I hope it takes off.
Ashatmapants@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
That’s true! Apollo has been years in the making. Excited to see how far mlem will come.
Smork_alam@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Same :)
lenguen@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 3y
Pretty much only lurked on reddit. Gonna try to turn a new leaf and be more social
crewman_princess@lemmy.sdf.org · 17 pts · 3y
I've already made more comments and posts than I ever did on Reddit. I'm doing my part! o7
UniversalHatred@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
I made a community called cringeworld for fans of the old cringe subs
c/cringeworld
Just_A_Human@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
How does one find this community?
neeshie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
https://lemmy.world/c/cringeworld
neeshie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
If you click on their profile, it shows the communities that they moderate
destructdisc@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 3y
But only if you do it from their home instance (lemmy.world in this case), on other instances it just shows their comments
neeshie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Oh my bad
Sneakz@feddit.de · 2 pts · 3y
Currently I only know this way to search communities https://browse.feddit.de/
zikk_transport2@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
Already spammed "shitposting" community with...shitposts. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
GatoB@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Everyone is doing their part, I uploaded some Wallpapers and plan to do more tomorrow. Ape together strong 💪
zikk_transport2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Ape together strong? 💎👐🚀🚀🚀
Just_A_Human@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 3y
Together ape stronkkkk
Deviance@beehaw.org · 17 pts · 3y
I'm not ready for this responsibility.
altz3r0@beehaw.org · 17 pts · 3y
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.
Variden3301@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
Is it just me or when a post gets too big it is scarier to comment on it?
aemelt@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
i feel the exact same way tbh. like's who's gonna scroll all the way down to my comment?
Scaldart@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
The number of times I accidentally wasted three or four hours reading hundreds and hundreds of comments is way higher than I'd care to admit.
You are heard! Lol.
Variden3301@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Somebody will do and that somebody is me
makeitso@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
And me!!
aemelt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
:) thanks
atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
If I'm looking for an obscure tech solution, I sure will!
Calvinball@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 3y
I love the feeling that I can post here without feeling insecure. Everyone seems well meaning and welcoming
acedude1234@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 15 pts · 3y
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.
mcpheeandme@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
This kind of feels like the way reddit did more than a decade ago. It's not nearly as busy as when I joined reddit in 2011, but the comments feel more approachable, more engaging, more human.
StringPotatoTheory@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Honestly feels like I've traveled back in time 10+ years, it feels way more chill and 100% more approachable
n4utx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
definitely not just a huge, single room talking festival like reddit feels like sometimes
darkwing_duck@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
I think it's the lack of bots.
Speaking of which, what exactly is preventing bots here?
zeldis@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Nothing really, although I imagine if a particular instance was getting overrun with bots the admin or mods would probably step in and possible prevent new accounts from signing up or something
manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech · 5 pts · 3y
Reddit was not always so toxic with its replies, I think that can be managed better here really.
Tippy7228@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
Here from reddit.
pkonink@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Drudge@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Ya me too, and rather quite confused about this whole thing. Wish there was a reddit post explaining how to use.
wheresyourshoe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Samesies.
Canduck@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 3y
I’m doing my part!
otherpocket@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Srapture@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
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.
Callie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 3y
No posts yet, but I think I've already commented more here in a few days than my last 5 years on Reddit.
Protegee9850@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
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.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Lurkers are needed but in the beggining we need first to make content to be lurked
art@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Don't tell me how to Lemmy...
I mean you're right.
InfiniteSpaces@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
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!
Astrovenator@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Joined! I'll post some of my mediocre art there for content
regular_human@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Finally found an instance that could handle the traffic.
MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 12 pts · 3y
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
iamliterallysatan@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3y
Fine. But only long until it gains adoption. Then it's back to the shadows.
boogers19@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
Reasonable.
mtnwolf@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 12 pts · 3y
I'm not much of a content creator... But I love following contents creators... Am I useful?
Decoy321@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Commenting helps, too. It shows that at least someone is interested enough to share their thoughts. That alone encourages more activity from others.
Plus, if you ever think you have nothing to say, just say something nice. Even the smallest supportive statement can go a long way.
So, good job, OP!
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
That's a good point. A lot of time I want to say post something, but someone else said it better or faster. I just end up writing a draft post and then deleting it before I submit.
So now I won't. Your easy goal of say something nice is a great goal to have. I'll keep this rambling and I will say more nice things to people cause of your post. Thanks.
Decoy321@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Thanks for your rambling. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us. Thanks!
... See?
Veilus@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
Just did my part by posting my pup in the cute cats and dogs thing.
Finnbot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
My content is pretty shit, but I'll glady support and comment on you more interesting folks' stuff!
LawnMooser@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Krististrasza@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
I lurk therefore I am.
blackstampede@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 11 pts · 3y
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.
JerichoRamirez@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
LillianVS@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
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
zxo@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 3y
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!
dystop@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
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!
bunnypower123@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
hello, just moved here from reddit
looking good so far!
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 3y
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.
bad_alloc@feddit.de · 5 pts · 3y
A big pool will go down or encounter copyright issues. In the end the internet is a network of physical devices on which we put stuff. If you have a couple of bucks available, you can rent a vServer and just put your stuff there and make it linkable + tagged. If a bunch of people do it, a lemmy community with a link collection could provide this. But it always needs some person to put it up, otherwise it's just back to the big corporate silos.
I'm trying to do this bit by bit by renting some machine from Hetzner, starting with a blog or sth.
Edit: Just found Pixelfed, a federated image hosting platform :D
GatoB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
The problem is that photos even though they look similar they are different because some people instead of saving the image they take a screenshot. I think what you say is posible but I dont know if it is worth it right now, we need to fix the bugs and then add cool features
CanOpener@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
IPFS would be perfect for this. Each instance would pin the image, and your instance would be a "gateway", helping to distribute media when its requested. IPFS assigns a CID to every file so the same meme posted twice would have the same CID.
normalincafes@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
I’ve been participating a lot more here because it feels like my contributions have more impact than they did on Reddit.
TheEternal87@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
I gotta stop lurking...
MotionChris@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
As a lurker I agree
Izzy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
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.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Your problem is my goal xD
dystop@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
When the community is small, making dozens of posts is fine! I'm slowly adding to my communities, you should too!
MothBookkeeper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
That's probably a good idea, actually. People are more likely to subscribe to and engage with a community that already has content.
pseudo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Posting to unlurk myself. It's... haaard to kick the habit.
Astrealix@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
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...
LaggySnake@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Alright, I usually lurk, but I started off here by creating a community of my favorite game.
beefbowls@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
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
GreyCat134@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
I’m at least trying to comment more on posts. Breaking the lurker habit is hard.
Voran@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
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.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
c/newcommunities
Voran@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Aha, thanks
Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y
I wish these would be linked somehow. I just spent a couple mins figuring out what to do with that. Ideally it should be tap to see and another tap to subscribe. First I tried to search, then went to communities to search and pick closest match - with more traffic I guess it will include picking the right instance.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
You can do it but I forgot to do it
stepan@narod.city · 8 pts · 3y
Ok, buddy. I'll test cross-commenting here, if you don't mind.
E: nice
octopuscrew@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
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!
Kutsuya@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
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!
Veilus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Noticed the same thing. Finding instances seems easy, but not sure how to find communities within said instances.
_MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
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.
blackluster117@possumpat.io · 3 pts · 3y
"If you build it, they will come."
GatoB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Exactly thats what we are doing
WillNeverCommentV2@lemmy.film · 2 pts · 3y
I have no interest in running a community, does starting the community mean you're responsible for it here? How does it work? Can I start one and not be responsible for it?
_MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I'm unsure of how it works for the long term, but for the short term it's just for populating the content. That's how I see it.
Then eventually when it grows, I'd want to add a mod to help with the community, or give them them the community entirely.
The focus is populating the community.
WillNeverCommentV2@lemmy.film · 1 pts · 3y
That makes sense. Thanks!
RGB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
mountainmycelium@beehaw.org · 8 pts · 3y
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.
flamingarms@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y
I better start seeing smoked meats posted on this shit. Got any recommendations for quality beef jerky or anything of the like that will ship in the States? You've got me hungry now.
mountainmycelium@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y
I guess tonight I learn how to make a smoker instance(?)!
Just did a 10lb Boston butt for a cabin trip this past weekend. May have a few photos...
Also, sorry, but zero idea on beef jerky that ships. Are you meaning like a brand of some that can be purchased online? I'll do some research! Orrrrrr... Once I figure it out, you can post that question in the smoker Instance!
0beevomit0@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
But. . . my content is terrible. . . It's like stale chips. You'll eat them if you have to but you won't enjoy it.
deadpoet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
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.
monkeytennis@beehaw.org · 7 pts · 3y
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.
atlasraven31@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y
Sure, make a thread. "I miss X from readit, can we make that here?"
Hupf@feddit.de · 7 pts · 3y
Does avidly upvoting comments count?
Kutsuya@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
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!
KateBishop@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
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
vinnyboiler@oldbytes.space · 7 pts · 3y
@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.
Kahnza@fedia.io · 7 pts · 3y
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.
100beep@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 3y
Even bad content is still content and gets more engagement than nothing.
druppel@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 3y
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
Aussiemandeus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
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
Woozy@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
I'll post when I have something worthwhile to post. Lemmy should go for quality over volume.
Decoy321@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
The forest would be quiet if only the best songbirds sang.
You can have a happy medium between quality and quantity. Lemmy is still new enough that we don't have to worry about oversaturation yet. Let's keep growing.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I think it depends on the user, not the platform.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I think it depends on the user, not the platform.
randomguy2323@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
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.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I can not think a way that they could do that
Maiznieks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
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.
egeres@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
👀 if we just make content about saying that we should make content does it count as actual content?
democracy1984@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Would it be a good idea to cross post large amounts of old Reddit content?
Just_A_Human@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3y
Nah, this is fresh real estate for new m E m E S
manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech · 6 pts · 3y
nahh man, dey said fResH
manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech · 5 pts · 3y
Bring the content over, delete the reddit post, repost to reddit with the fediverse link
GraceGH@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 3y
I haven't not considered opening my own instance of some flavor named "fuck.spez" or "fuck.you" if i dont want to get sued, scrape the front page of reddit by top 100 subreddits and repost them verbatim. The only (and obvious) obstacles are i have no money so no website.
I think what i'd do is make the instance not possible to sign up for and it'd be exclusively for other instances to federate with for free content? I'm not totally sure if that's how it works though.
yelly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Hy34x@feddit.de · 5 pts · 3y
Okay, I'll try my best.
notroot@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 3y
Don't tell me what to do! Heheheheh
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Tell us how to create communities!
GatoB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
At the top of the page there are buttons to find communities, create posts and make communities
Guitarded@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
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.
MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
I've officially exceeded my reddit post count, not saying much, but I'm trying
hydra@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
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.
manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech · 5 pts · 3y
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!
TigerClawTV@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
100%. No one is here from my niche interest so I made a community and I'm going to post in it every day.
MisterBigFart@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Easier said than done. Every time I try to post something it just hangs.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 3y
Where can I start my own community? There's some things I want but I dont wnat to host my own instance.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
At the top of the page there is a Create community button
utopianfiat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
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
Today@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I hope someone makes a standard issue cat community.
vinnyboiler@oldbytes.space · 4 pts · 3y
anthimatter@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
100%. We're showing Reddit right now the power of community.
DanieruSenpai@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Just joined today but currently loving the default browser layout, will see what communities are available and start making content.
blade_imaginato@lemmy.one · 4 pts · 3y
I'll try my best to post, however, on reddit, I was usually a lurker who never ever posted. Only commented. (Sometimes)
kspatlas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 3y
I'm fairly sure the kind of person to make content is more likely to move to other services like this
WintryLemon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Trying!
scarletnewt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Its a hard habit to kick, especially for the casual user.
sdrawk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
I'm here. I last commented on Reddit many moons ago but I'm here
CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one · 4 pts · 3y
Don't tell me what to do!
If you post it, I will comment.
podnyatsya@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
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
Just_A_Human@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3y
I read that part of the growing pains is server storage, be patient, things should be sorted out relatively soon
podnyatsya@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Makes sense, I can wait I just got here, after all
GatoB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
You can also upload and share the link with sites like https://postimages.org/ https://imgbox.com https://imgur.com https://www.dropbox.com/basic
sunspider@lemmy.world MOD · 3 pts · 3y
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.
grapple@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
aaaaaaaaaand POST!
mikerussell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55fqjw2J1vI&ab_channel=NMcC
eggzabyte@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
i'm heeeeeeeeeeeere! I wasn't aware there were tons of people already here!
bstix@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 3y
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.
HKPiax@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Is there an iOS app?
xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com · 3 pts · 3y
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
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.
WandererLagomorph770@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
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.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
you can go to c/newcommunities
Pat12@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I made a bunch of communities and subscribed to others on different instances, hope other people will post as well!
Randomname@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
I am jumping in here as well, so far so good!
munji@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
roger that
m4tthu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I'm doing my part!
RGB@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
garggarg2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
hi
KingYoloHD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
But that's so much work
jugalator@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
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
Today@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Did you guys keep your Reddit name to be recognizable or did you make a new one to start over??
Trekman10@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
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.
xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com · 2 pts · 3y
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...
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
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.
GatoB@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
maybe this answers your question https://lemmy.world/post/16351
Homeopathicsuicide@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
A_1005@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I will try to do this, Im a new user here since 10 minutes or so :)
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I will never make content
egeres@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Time for this to go back to the top.
riot_baby@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Would be great to do on an official lemmy app. I hope they will create soon.
Viatorem@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 3y
I knew my 200gbs of memes only me and my brother find funny would come in handy!
original_ish_name@latte.isnot.coffee · 1 pts · 3y
But lurking go brrrrrrr
aloeha@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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.
m3t00@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
ads are terrible lurker candy. some are just scrolling ads. they will miss them telling them what to do
Iwasbornaramblinman@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 3y
First comment!
kapeeshy@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 3y
StalinsMoustache@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 3y