I'm especially curious to know if you made your own instances or communities. But if not, what other notable things have you done?
E: I guess I forgot to mention what I did, which was make a community and various posts. Considering making a full instance but I've never attempted something like that before.
Trying to comment more (its a slow process) as this place feels smaller and less noise. Id love to make a community i am just trying to think of something. Its really nice to see lurkers like me step up and join in i hope to speak to you lurkers in many more threads!
I switched to the Fediverse a few days before the reddit blackout and haven't gone back yet. I'm actually finding myself wanting to participate in voting and commenting in the smaller communities here vs. getting completely lost in the mix on reddit.
Made various posts to help communities I'm interested in get off the ground, advertised my fave ones on other social media, helped a lot of people out during the influx earlier in the week so hopefully a few less of them bounce off Lemmy due to confusion. Haven't started any communities because I prefer to try and help build existing ones.
(I did briefly consider making a craft-focused instance but had a look at the docs and the tech requirements and noped out lol)
So far it’s just commenting and upvoting. The mobile interface isn’t the best tbh, but I’m hoping to dive into everything on desktop when I have time this weekend.
engage with content I like, try to produce some posts on communities that are dear to my heart, showing my critical gf the cute animal pictures and derpy jokes I find here.
Commenting, upvoting, boosting, and seeking out inactive magazines on topics I'm interested in, then making posts. My local magazine would be /m/stlouis so I've made a couple of posts there. No traction yet but I'll keep at it.
I've made more posts than usual (I usually only comment, not post).
I've also posted a bunch of issues to the kbin issue tracker and investigated the code for a few. Maybe at some point I'll actually contribute some changes, but admittedly setting up a dev env is a pain in the ass and I do enough dev for work that I don't usually have energy for more.
As I get more and more into the idea of just staying here (I really was hoping Reddit would have just pulled its head out of its ass), I may also recreate some communities that aren't yet here. Last I checked, my city didn't have one here.
I go back a couple times a day to lead those that won't convert to ad-free modded versions of the official app so reddit can't make any money off Android users by cramming ads down their throats.
I've been commenting, upvoting and posting. Though for some reason I haven't been able to post anything since yesterday - It gives me an error code no matter how many times I try, does anyone know anything about this? I want to post more cat pics darn it!!
As someone who has absolutely zero knowledge about servers and stuff I can tell you with certainty that the servers are overwhelmed and that's why uploading is throttled.
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