this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
1072 points (98.4% liked)

Lemmy

12568 readers
31 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to [email protected].

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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

(page 3) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

This is my first comment. I just made an account on Lemmy.world. If I’m correct, users from other instances have a second @ in their name while native users do not.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think part of that is the confusion around communities, how does a community on each instance mesh together? As people are being pushed away from the primary Lemmy instance due to overloading, the smaller ones look far less populated and lead people to feel that it’s a ghost town.

So when I follow /c/memes, am I following the one on my instance, the one on the first instance that created it or a hybrid of both?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Each instance has its own communities and they're separate from each other. If someone created a /memes/ community on another instance it would be its own thing, but people from other instances would still be able to view it.

To view a community on another instance you'd have to put the instance name in the URL. For example, if there was an instance called "coolinstance.com" with a community called "stuff", then for users on the coolinstance.com instance the URL for that community would be coolinstance.com/c/stuff. If there was another instance called reallycoolinstance.com, they'd still be able to see the "stuff" community, but to them the URL would be reallycoolinstance.com/c/[email protected]. They'd also be able to create their own "stuff" community, and people on coolinstance.com could access it by going to coolinstance.com/c/[email protected].

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Welcome to a better future everyone.

Me rn -

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yo, your fingers are whack

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Share stories, comment. Lurking doesn't generate content.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'll wait and see how things go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Love it! i lurked a lot on Reddit unless I had very specific questions--I think it's cool having an opportunity to grow a community.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Been doing my part. Logged out of Reddit last night (will delete all data and then the account if no changes are made by the 29th). I wanna see lemmy get bigger and grow. Plus my favorite part of Reddit were the discussions and such, I want to see the same engagement here!

[–] Demigodrick 6 points 1 year ago

Was mostly a reddit lurker, have tried to change that by hosting my own lemmy instance and actually get involved in something!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm a little confused on how to find more communities to join. I'm on the feddit.nl instance, and I know I can subscribe to communities on any instance, but there isn't really a search button or anything like that, at least not on the Jerboa app. Is there, like, a user guide on how this shit works?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's a little jank. There is https://browse.feddit.de/ to help you find communities though!

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's hard being a lurker for so long, I only started interacting with a few smaller subreddits around sporting events and then within a year, all this crap started happening. Feel sorry for all the 3rd party developers, I used Boost and I'm glad I supported the developer over the years but can't believe how they ended up being treated. Death to Reddit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Scraped my reddit account and here to post Manatee!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Let's defeat the 90/9/1-rule!

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No Lurking from me!

In all honesty, Thankful to be here and have something to turn to. Excited to see the massive improvements Lemmy takes on over the coming months with traffic from reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The best thing about Lemmy is that it's still so raw. There is so much potential for it to be turned into something really great. Then again, television was once like that, I suppose - so was the internet, now I think about it. Oh well, at least I'm not lurking.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just downloaded and installed Jerboa on my phone. This is me trying to do my part to help out a user-friendly Reddit replacement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being new here I think I'll mostly lurk at first. But here goes my first comment anyways. Looking forward to a growing community.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

i just feel so foreign still, then again, everyone does, but it's hard to find the will to interact when you feel foreign, ykwim? like being a stranger at a party, it's all fun and all but it feels pretty hard to just approach a random group of ppl and be like "henlo guys my name is johnathan and i'm here to show u my cat", lmao, but yeah you're right we gotta push it a little bit. no other way to start than by starting.

load more comments (11 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Just delete all of my posts and a 12-year old reddit account. So long Reddit...

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Trying my best! I'm trying to decide if I want to open my instance up to more users or not as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Commenting for the engagement as requested, sir.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Huh. So that's how you comment!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

> Joined 4 days ago

> 7 Comments

ppfft, get on my level scrub. :P

load more comments (10 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›