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Do your part, try not to lurk! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

exactly. the internet was historically much more decentralized. laziness, ignorance and apathy got us to the centralized mess we are in today.

we (the unwashed masses of the world) cant directly compete on raw dedicated bandwidth and storage, but we can complete on quality and raw decentralized accessibility. the decentralization helps to mitigate the centralized storage and bandwidth advantages of the big players.

with enough federated instances, we will have a massively redundent medium through which like minded users can congregate and share ideas in a federated and self organizing way. the possibilities are pretty damn tantalizing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Decentralisation is the reason why the internet was invented, to keep communication lines up in a nuclear war

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

indeed. DARPA for the wi... err...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much!