If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk

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.

Full-time lurker here, I'm trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.

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.

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.
- 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.
I'm really liking it, too. I was fairly active commenting on Reddit, was a user for over 15 years, but this feels good.

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/

Getting from "I reddit" to "lemmy post that" is hard, but I agree it's necessary to grow the communities.

Okey , the way you wrote that pretty neat chief

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.
- yeah the iphone site sucks. i cant even download the app bc you have to be 18 to use testflight.

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 tried to move over to Voat but it very quickly turned into a cesspit.
- It's almost as if making a site dedicated to people too racist, sexist, antisocial, etc, for even Reddit's lax moderation policies, was a bad idea.
  And that's before it became a central hub for literal treason.
I just made a version of one of my favourite subs, which I think most people could contribute to: !hypotheticalsituation@lemmy.sdf.org
I forgot all about voat.
I'm hopeful that large scale subs going dark will help us. That and being forced off of 3rd party apps.
- the community here is doing a decent job - I think it's just whether we can all continue to engage actively here (and not get up to shenanigans like defederating from everyone else ahem)
Oh man, I forgot about Voat. That place was... interesting for a little while.

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?

Same with me. For what it's worth, the people here seem genuinely nice. :D
i'm also joining the first comment train, choo choo!
This is my first comment too! I'll try engaging with others more despite the fact I also lurk a lot on Reddit :D
I am too but hey, look you inspiring me to comment too! Honestly I do try to comment but I'm more determined than ever to lurk less and engage more!

i would post but for now i don't have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway

Same here - I was never an active poster, but I love commenting! Must have something to do with our personalities.
- 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
Me too. I love interacting with content, but I am not a content creator.

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!

That is the mentality that everyone should have
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.
- Yeah same here, never felt comfortable posting on Reddit, but so far lemmy feels safe enough to get more involved with.

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!

- I feel like as kids we're just so passionate about what's on our minds. We're still reckless and impulsive and less caring about what others think. When we grow up and understand the world a little better, we realize it's not so nice of a place we thought previously, and there's a lot of jerks around :( I hope we can find that childlike wonder of simply engaging with someone fascinating again.
- This is the best time to change it for good. So many nice people around here!
- Same! I grew up on yahoo chat and age of empires forums, I wish I could stop worrying about what others thought.
People here is so nice I dont know why but the problem is when more people join It will be harder to keep the peace so more mods will join and keep the peace
- It's definitely going to be harder when there are more different personalities mingling together. It doesn't help some people just want to see the world burn no matter what the cost... while I want to say, "Enjoy it while it lasts!" I don't want to have that kind of scenario be the default. At the end of the day, we gotta make sure we contribute into making this space the space we want it to be, and that means reporting whatever we can that break the rules, posting quality content, and just being a decent person in general. We got this, internet friend! :)
Dear Faye, thanks for sharing because I feel the same way and have the same type of anxiety when it comes to posting. Many times I finish a draft and then delete it instead of posting because I think "who cares? Someone else said something similar."
But your post has motivated me to contribute more. Thanks!
- I'm very very happy to hear that! I look forward to seeing you around :D
- I spent 12 years of my life reading walls of text on Reddit because I knew they were authentic pieces of someone else's life they were sharing on the internet.
  The most interesting posts are the ones that go in depth on some random niche topic that you'd expect no one to care about. Be it an Indie game with 5 players, or a random reptilian species with a cool ability.
  So yes, I care! I doubt I'm alone in that regard. Please do post your thoughts 😁
  Sidenote: this was before the era of ChatGPT, but I highly doubt a significant number of people are going to intentionally waste others' time by posting ChatGPT generated content.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I just got into an argument with someone complaining about the blackouts (trolling I guess) on another community. So exhausting. These will always exist, I guess.
- Some individuals just get off annoying people, unfortunately. Ignore, report, and engage with somebody else seems to work most of the time! I hope this won't wear us down!

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, this is key, fewer but more vibrant communities rather than many mostly empty ones.

Most users on any given platform are gonna be lurkers

Toilet readers.
Most are but at the beggining we need content to be lurked

I'd also like to post more but worry that I'm being narcissistic...Not everyone likes my weirdly-tuned ukulele music.

Well no one's gonna get a chance to like it if you don't post! ♥️
- Hehe true, well here's today's recording
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiqCaua1lFA
dont get in your own head man, relax and just do you
- Thanks for kind words ^_

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.

Let's face it. without shitposters and casuals a social network can't thrive. You need the chaotic energy it brings.

- I don't want to be on any site that doesn't post shit like this.
i'm going to start adding this lemmysub to my pic posts every friday for sure.
That's an interesting view, what makes you say this?

I'm not going to comment, just upvote. Wait...

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?

Yeah, this mirrors my thoughts. There should be a way to combine subreddits with the same name, from the users' perspective. Kind of like making a multireddit for yourself.
- Oh I like that idea way better. Basically, having the option to combine posts in the duplicate communities across instances.
- I have no idea if the technology allows for an implementation of that multislice with multiple slices with the same name but different instance, but I hope it does because it sounds interesting. At least from a user perspective.
I think the fediverse is inherently different than the "normal" Internet. The way I'm thinking about it now is that each instance is a bit like it's own town, and the activitypub protocol is the road infrastructure connecting each town. There may very well be a group of technologists in Town A, but that shouldn't stop anyone from making their own group in Town B.
That being said, it's very beneficial to be able to gather all of these disparate communities into one place, and going back to the analogy, this would be something like a city center, where many people from smaller communities come together.
Perhaps in the future, we'll be able to create our own feeds (i.e not just subscribed, local, and all). I think that would be a solid way to handle things. Bonus points if those feeds can then be shared with others, so that they don't also need to go through the work of finding and subscribing to the individual communities that make up the greater feed.
undefined> subreddit subscriptions’ parallels
But for example, /c/chatgpt community on infosec.pub instance might have different conversations to other /c/chatgpt communities on other instances, as (I presume) there's a lot of industry/tech/infosec heads on that instance. So someone looking for a community can see them all and decide if what instance's community right for them.
Whereas on Reddit, there can be only one /r/chatgpt, so you have to find adjacent subreddits.
I've seen that as well, but that existed on reddit and even IRL - religions and clubs nearly overlapping due to either disagreements or lack of awareness of each other predates the internet by centuries.

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!

Looking forward to helping where I can as well!

All the introverts: o.o'

Woohoo... First comment :)

Welcome, hyperslob!
- 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.
Same :)

good point. For the first time ever I am now a mod - wish me luck. Re-introducing: /c/theyknew

One of my issues is I can't just click that in Jerboa. And if I could, what instance is it even on? Hmmm.
- 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.
- 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..
- Is this it? New to this cross-instance thing too.
  https://lemmy.world/c/theyknew
Good luck :)

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.

Even commenting and upvoting is something
So far people have been much nicer here. And besides, who cares if someone judges you or feels like you didn't contribute anything, that's their problem not yours!
I feel you.
I am currently also just on reddit for lurking or searching things like "best maple-sirup which could be bought in germany".
However, if my wife can move from france to germany because of our relationship, I can move from reddit to lemmy.
Absolutely this!
I constantly feel as if my opinion is too worthless (or even plain wrong) to leave comments literally anywhere. And while it is great to know that I'm definitely not alone and there are people who feel this way, it is very sad and unfortunate that we even have to worry about it.
- First comment!
  I have always felt exactly the same way. I almost never posted or commented on Reddit for the same reason, constantly worried about negative or aggressive responses. Didn't have to spoons to always spend ages typing and re-typing a comment to make sure it came across exactly as I wanted it to and add something of as much value as possible x___x
  I like the philosophy of beehaw and hope that it will help me start getting over this mental blocker. :)
Another lurker here, but somehow it feels like it has been a lot easier to post on here compared to reddit. Hopefully Lemmy continues to have good discussion without devolving too much into reddit meme comment chains and the like.

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!

You lurked for 9 years without commenting? That's dedication - I think I broke somewhere in my 3rd year of redditing lol
- Haha, I don't know about dedication, just never found the need to engage over there. Reddit is (was!) a source of entertainment, news and information, not conversation for me. But already from stalking a bit over here I find the conversation more positive and on point, so things might change for me

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 couldn't agree more. I understand a lot of us moved here from reddit, myself included, but I think we have to stop talking about it so much.

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.

Is it just me or when a post gets too big it is scarier to comment on it?
- i feel the exact same way tbh. like's who's gonna scroll all the way down to my comment?

Pretty much only lurked on reddit. Gonna try to turn a new leaf and be more social

Me too, pal.

I love the feeling that I can post here without feeling insecure. Everyone seems well meaning and welcoming

I've noticed that too. Nobody has tried to show me up or assumed bad faith on my part so far. That's picking weird for the internet.
- It's the emergence of a new community. When things get big, people feel less individually responsible, and that's how trouble starts.

I'm not ready for this responsibility.

xD

I made a community called cringeworld for fans of the old cringe subs

c/cringeworld

I've already made more comments and posts than I ever did on Reddit. I'm doing my part! o7

It's definitely tough to break the lurking habits.

I created a community based on one of my hobbies to end my lurking habit: https://lemmy.world/c/backcountry
For now, I am just posting about one photo a day from my collection with some text that tries to drive interaction. There are 15 people in the community so I am hoping things start expanding at some point. All it costs me is a few minutes a day to choose and post a photo.
- Yes! That’s what I did as well gemstone faceting check it out!
- I was excited for a backcountry sub but I see it’s just for winter skiing and snowboarding. That name is kind of confusing. I was hoping it was for backcountry camping and hiking like on Reddit.

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.

Lurkers are needed but in the beggining we need first to make content to be lurked

I’m doing my part!

Here from reddit.

Samesies.
Ya me too, and rather quite confused about this whole thing. Wish there was a reddit post explaining how to use.

Already spammed "shitposting" community with...shitposts. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

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

Moderating that can be hard but idk
- At least it wouldn't be the only hard part of it

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.

I made two communities, they are niche for sure, but I'm doing my part lol

Don't tell me how to Lemmy...

I mean you're right.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sadpuppy.lemmings&hl=en_US

I'm not much of a content creator... But I love following contents creators... Am I useful?

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!
- 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'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.

As someone who makes music people don't generally care about, I'd love to hear what you're up to. I also mix/master people's music for free, so if you want something touched up send me a message.
- My band is called The Hats, and our most recent release is Breaking Down. I enjoy doing the mixing and mastering myself, but it's certainly time consuming when you have a full time job and several other hobbies, haha.
Me too

Fine. But only long until it gains adoption. Then it's back to the shadows.

Reasonable.

Just did my part by posting my pup in the cute cats and dogs thing.

No posts yet, but I think I've already commented more here in a few days than my last 5 years on Reddit.

My content is pretty shit, but I'll glady support and comment on you more interesting folks' stuff!

At least it's pretty! I'm sharing my stupid things IDGAF let's go!! Share it!

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.

part of it may be that reddit has become so big it's almost like shouting into the void.
Once a post has >300 comments, the only way to have a meaningful conversation is to add to the top-level comments. And soon the top-level comments are all nested with relevant and irrelevant comments.
- Yeah, the comments here are far better.
- Wouldn't it be a better idea to sort by new instead of popular?
Yeah, it definitely feels like there is less pressure in commenting
same! I almost never commented on reddit but I've felt a lot more comfortable being active here. Something about the size of it led me to always be of the opinion that 'whatever I'm thinking, it's already been said'.

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!

Joined! I'll post some of my mediocre art there for content

Well i had an account just to lurk on reddit, but like anything else in life things eventually come to an end. I don't know what kind of content can be easily imported here. Years ago, i would post about a variety of things, but recently the content that i see is much less varied than it was, so posting has become less interesting. Guess searching stuff on google earth is just as fun as it was than instead. It's interesting to see all this activity without gpt-fied comments tho

Same, I was mostly a lurker. I just joined Lemmy to check out the alternatives while the blackout proceeds. I'm curious - in which subreddits did you see most of the gpt comments coming up or was it mostly an all-around thing? I didn't think I saw too many in my feed. Still, it might also be because feeds I like such as r/crochet don't really need to gpt-ify most of their comments. I'd assume that would more be in AITA or those types of reddits that lend themselves to spinning fictional yarns.
- Big ones. Such clean academic answers left instantly to casual comments, that was weird. I was in smaller subs and never a problem, expecially the pixel dungeon ones and the roguelkes in general. Plant id and similar subs were good too, but i did not depend on those alone, there's so many resources for that.

Finally found an instance that could handle the traffic.

IRC it has the highest uptime between big instances

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.

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 agree

I lurk therefore I am.

Let's do this

I lurked on reddit but uh I'll make an attempt to post more

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.

c/newcommunities
- Aha, thanks
- 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.

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

Would it be a good idea to cross post large amounts of old Reddit content?

I gotta stop lurking...

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!

Noticed the same thing. Finding instances seems easy, but not sure how to find communities within said instances.
- You can use the Lemmy Community Browser. On the left you can open a menu and deselect instances where you do not want to look for communities (why, though? xD). It sometimes can take a day or so for new communities to appear in the browser.
- I suppose so yea... We'll see!

Posting to unlurk myself. It's... haaard to kick the habit.

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!

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.

Your problem is my goal xD
When the community is small, making dozens of posts is fine! I'm slowly adding to my communities, you should too!
That's probably a good idea, actually. People are more likely to subscribe to and engage with a community that already has content.

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.

I'm trying to comment more often, but I have anxiety issues. Baby steps.

I’ve been participating a lot more here because it feels like my contributions have more impact than they did on Reddit.

If we comment even when we have nothing to say we end up with comments like 'this'

Alright, I usually lurk, but I started off here by creating a community of my favorite game.

yes! (and memes are the tip of the content spear)
Great

I enjoy writing comments, but not so much making posts. Does this make me a "partial" lurker?

As a lurker I agree

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!

hello, just moved here from reddit

looking good so far!

But. . . my content is terrible. . . It's like stale chips. You'll eat them if you have to but you won't enjoy it.

@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.

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!

I've been sorting by All/New and have found quite a few good communities so far. It's not a great solution but it works pretty well.
Because it is new, you will get used to it and understand it with the time

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.

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.

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.

Sure, make a thread. "I miss X from readit, can we make that here?"

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’m at least trying to comment more on posts. Breaking the lurker habit is hard.

You can't tell me what to do! (Wait...)

I'll post when I have something worthwhile to post. Lemmy should go for quality over volume.

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

I'd love to hear your ideas on improvements. I've got one or 2 myself and just like hearing other people's perspectives.

Easier said than done. Every time I try to post something it just hangs.

I'm finding that often (not always), the little submit icon just never stops spinning. I can open the page in a new tab or browser, and the comment is there, so obviously it did finish submitting, but in the original tab/window, it just spins forever.

I think this is my first post?
But yeah same here, most of my issues come from stability as of right now, otherwise Lemmy is fantastic.

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

Okay, I'll try my best.

Great
It's really hard to not lurk when just signing up for a forum, though I'll do my best, too.
The other really difficult thing is how I have to keep logging in every few minutes. That's getting annoying.

While you say that Lemmy is growing massively with content and users, just wait and it will be great
It sucks you feel that way :/ if you could, how would you improve lemmy?
I’m actually in the process of building a small-form HTPC so it’s an awesome sub for me.
- I was out here trying to get a SFFPC community going and I find StalinsMoustache shitting on it lol. If you want to share your build or get advice, you should check it out: https://sh.itjust.works/c/sffpc
It figures that StalinsMoustache would want to see communities die of starvation..
So just like Reddit had a sub for SFF PCs?

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

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'm just chilling and getting comfy. then I'll start contributing after I feel out the vibe here.

I have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn't have Idea to post though, lol...

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.

That is what I also did, you can add other mods
- I'm getting an infinite loading loop when trying to create the community.

100%. No one is here from my niche interest so I made a community and I'm going to post in it every day.

Even bad content is still content and gets more engagement than nothing.

Where can I start my own community? There's some things I want but I dont wnat to host my own instance.

At the top of the page there is a Create community button

Don't tell me what to do!

If you post it, I will comment.

Honestly, after spez described this protest as "noise".... I said F- that. And, now I host lemmyonline.com.

Cheers to the movement.

Just joined today but currently loving the default browser layout, will see what communities are available and start making content.

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.

I've officially exceeded my reddit post count, not saying much, but I'm trying

Thats good

I'm here. I last commented on Reddit many moons ago but I'm here

Don't tell me what to do! Heheheheh

Does avidly upvoting comments count?

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

Cool, just dont forget to upload content

@GatoB I'm trying to make the best effort I can, I started a London community 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.

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

I will never make content

Trying!

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!

Tell us how to create communities!

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 hope someone makes a standard issue cat community.

i'm heeeeeeeeeeeere! I wasn't aware there were tons of people already here!

Is there an iOS app?

yes https://join-lemmy.org/apps
- I used Safari to “Add to Home Screen”. It isn’t a real app but it has it’s own icon and acts like one.
- But it's not on the app store (yet?), it's on testflight which is intended for beta testing.
- This app doesn't have a layout for iPad yet. I hope lemmy gets better clients soon

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'll try my best to post, however, on reddit, I was usually a lurker who never ever posted. Only commented. (Sometimes)

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55fqjw2J1vI&ab_channel=NMcC

aaaaaaaaaand POST!

First comment!

Its a hard habit to kick, especially for the casual user.

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...

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 that will help. #WalleyWorld

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.

maybe this answers your question https://lemmy.world/post/16351

But that's so much work

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.

Ok, buddy. I'll test cross-commenting here, if you don't mind.

E: nice

First comment!!

I will try to do this, Im a new user here since 10 minutes or so :)

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.

Did you guys keep your Reddit name to be recognizable or did you make a new one to start over??

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.

you can go to c/newcommunities

100%. We're showing Reddit right now the power of community.

👀 if we just make content about saying that we should make content does it count as actual content?

I'm doing my part!

I made a bunch of communities and subscribed to others on different instances, hope other people will post as well!

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...

But lurking go brrrrrrr

Would be great to do on an official lemmy app. I hope they will create soon.

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.

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.

Time for this to go back to the top.

I am jumping in here as well, so far so good!

roger that

Let's also stop making self aware posts, and do memes and stuff. :)

Yeah, the last thing we need is for Lemmy to be only about Reddit

ads are terrible lurker candy. some are just scrolling ads. they will miss them telling them what to do

hi

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