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

submitted 2 years 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] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m doing my part! After killing my 11 year old Reddit account

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

Those last two words were crucial to reducing my heart rate.

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

Ehm.. OK? Gosh, this is hard.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

More than that, spread the word around. Help people register. If Reddit users don't know that lemmy exists no one will use it. We have to get more people AWARE.

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

Totally agree, we need to build for the long term. Engagement has power.

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

Although I’m almost exclusively 100% a lurker I will try my best to make posts and post comments and stuff! Hope more folks from Reddit will join us and help make Lemmy a formidable competitor to Reddit.

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

Honestly, I feel more comfortable participating on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit or Twitter.

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

I agree. This place appears to be more inviting and friendly. I'm not worried that I'm going to make a spelling mistake and never hear the end of it

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

I wish signing up was easier for non technical users.

I understand the need for approving new sign ups but this can be off putting for new users.

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

Do we get any benefit from hosting our own Lemmy server? I am a tech nerd and love new IT projects. Sorry if this is off topic, please redirect me someplace else if there is a better thread to ask my question in.

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

The main benefit is being in total control of your experience on lemmy

If you're on someone else's server, you don't really have any control of federation, and your instance admins could just decide to defederate some instance that you enjoy seeing content from without your say. Similarly you may want to defederate from an instance, but on a public server you'd have to appeal to the admins to do so for the entire server.

Other than that it's mainly a "because it's cool" thing

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

Posting memes always seemed so easy until you have to do it lmao

[–] velvetThunder 1 points 1 year ago

Shush! let me lurk....oh no

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

Bump then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I try but I rarely post. I did seem to kinda revive the [email protected] community so that's dope. I hope people keep posting there.

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