Do your part, try not to lurk!

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

BoringToMyself,

So, should we recreate our favorite subreddits to get them going?

tech10,
@tech10@mastodon.social avatar

@BoringToMyself @bitsplease yeah, because without much content, especially the content they like, people aren't going to join

bitsplease,

Absolutely! Our join already created versions on other instances of they exist!

ablackcatstail,

@BoringToMyself @bitsplease Absolutely! The best way to get folks moved is through creation of their favorite subs in the . Show them a viable alternative exists, runs mostly well, and they'll trickle in.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Make sure to use browse.feddit.de to see if there is already a community before creating your own. We also don't want to fragment and make the main communities harder to find.

VariegatedAnxiety,

Thanks for this! What a very useful website! This is all so new and confusing that a centralized list of communities is super helpful. Now it's just in deciding which instance to actually use your account on, as that I'm not sure. At the moment, I have an account on kbin social and a couple of lemmy communities, although I'm not sure which would be most advantageous to browse everything with. I'm on Android if it helps, and know of the Jerboa app (which seems to primarily use lemmy communities), but it's definitely not full featured.

Earthbound,
Earthbound avatar

Thanks for this. Super helpful for starting out here.

Zak8022,
Zak8022 avatar

This really needs more awareness. Today I searched for a specific game (Honkai Star Rail) and found one, then a second popped up a few minutes later on a different instance. Hardly anyone is on either, but it’s a thing that people need to consider before just making a new one. Especially moving forward.

FaceDeer,
FaceDeer avatar

Since I imagine this is going to be a chronic problem for the Fediverse I wonder if there's a technical solution, like multireddits. If I find two communities that are identical in content it'd be nice to set my subscription to them to be "merged" so that I see them both mixed together.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

There isn't a solution right now but it's technically feasible as far as I know.

LemmyAtem,

I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and trying to set up a game thread for the NHL Stanley Cup Finals game tomorrow. Please come join and discuss if you're interested!

velvetThunder,

Shush! let me lurk…oh no

JMHershey125,

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.

bitsplease,

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

Mixo,

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3ntranced,

Don’t tell me what to do, I’ll engage when I’m ready >:(

hol up

foofiepie,

Hey people of the internet. So if I’m going to not lurk, and if I have a really weird sense of humour and am downright unfunny to most of my friends, where is my community here?

MacDangus,

Yarp.

foofiepie,

I got a reply!

Kaliax,

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

penguinsAreRapists,
@penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world avatar

But I have nothing interesting to say...

bitsplease,

A large part of the conversations on this site over th last few days has been about a guy who didn’t want to shit for 3 days, the bar isn’t incredibly high lol

asahi,

vim :)

Axurite,
youju,

I'm doing my part! Yes

Badger,
@Badger@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Hey now, I lurked on Reddit for years and it grew to be a huge success. I'm ready to repeat this bold strategy!

gmatkins,

Same.

BravoVictor,
@BravoVictor@programming.dev avatar

Good call. I’m really digging it here. I have my home instance in programming.dev with a pretty relaxed community there, and I can subscribe to even the popular stuff.

I’m gonna stick this out awhile.

explodes,

First post! I'm doing my part.

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