Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement
So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!
If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit
This is me not lurking
Watch me engage with someone
Watch me watch you engage with someone
This is all terribly engaging!
Good words brother.
Watch me engage with someone
Oh yeah? watch me engage with someone.
Watch me reply to a random comment.
This is your friendly neighborhood deviant trying not to lurk
Good job, you magnificent non-lurker!
Socialization? Socialization.
//HERE_WE_GO_AGAIN//
My first comment Hello world!
Engaging…
congratulations! This is my first post on lemmy!
Hello Fellow Human
Oh hey how’s agoin
Cool, I didn’t know we could embed images in posts and they’d show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.
Oo oo I Wana try.
-edit- don’t use big pictures.
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good to know!
After 14 years on reddit I’m tired of watching it die, the death of Apollo is what pushed me over the edge, I loved Apollo. I’ve been browsing in here for the past few days. I like it. Trying to get used to it. Fuck reddit and u/spez all of the situation was trash. Thank you all for recommending this site!! I’m excited to be apart of it!
I’ll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
You’re right, I’ll try. I enjoy reading, but often get overwhelmed with trying to respond, so I end up just giving up and not finishing my
But…but…I like lurking.
Here’s my first comment on Lemmy. I always lurked on Reddit, but I’ll try not to here!
Welcome!
Same here - maybe this is the best thing to come from leaving Reddit.
I just wanted to say that I am impressed with the mentality here. Everyone seems so engaged (at least at first now) that Lemmy feels alive although we are relatively few people, still. That reminds me somewhat of the early stages of the internet, when everything was still new and you felt special for being part of something big blowing up. Keep it up and try not to create redundant communities on every instance!
I think it’s kinda impossible to not create redundant communities. For example, people might not know about !technology@beehaw.org for example, and therefor create one at their local instance.
But I think that in a few months, you will see that certain communities at certain instances will be the “defacto” in a particular field.
Yes, but ideally you search for a few variations of a community before creating a new one :)
Completely agree with you there! But at the moment, federation is happening but a lot of the server’s are smoking quite a bit. So search might not be as reliable as intended.
Well, I did quite literally just get this instance set up, so I guess just posting random comments is necessary.
And random replies! Discussions are what makes a social media, social. :)
Replies?! Nobody told me there’d be replies!
oh, god! a human! quick… kill its API access!
I have to say, knowing we are humans talking to each other and not bots astro turfing everything, feels nice. Hopefully it lasts.
100% agreed, my friend. I have quite a bit of hope for this new frontier of federated social. we are going to have lots of growing pains but, for the first time, I think us plebs have a real say in our future.
You’ll take my API key from my cold dead hands!
corp dev: “sir, it’s libre open source and federated, we have no power over them!”
corp mgt: “…”
👍
Random comments
Long time no see, Lemmy. I hope Reddit ending is for the best, and I hope all my precious communities migrate to open source software.
Big time introverted lurker on reddit, since here is a much smaller community, I don’t feel so intimidated. I’ll try to be more active here. Let’s do this guys, let’s create a great place for all the Reddit Refugees. FUCK u/Spez!
FUCK u/Spez!
Hey now, /u/spez is a hero - without him, Lemmy would never have taken off like it has lol
Haha true, his AMA was especially fantastic in pissing off everyone so people now are flooding lemmy and other alternatives :D
but i don’t have anything to say
other than fuck spez of course
Hey now, I lurked on Reddit for years and it grew to be a huge success. I’m ready to repeat this bold strategy!
I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)
I’ll try my best not to be such a lurker. A fresh start on here might be what I need to get me out of my comfort zone.
