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

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.

Wack0wizard,

Lemmy reminds me of reddit is fun

Tythonis,

Silly question maybe. How do I search for other servers to join when in an app? Is it possible? I’m using memmy for iPhone.

JuicyGyri,

Not silly, I think there are a lot of us on a learning curve here, I can't help, but I can comment to practice doing so and see if I get notifications if anyone does answer you. I'm using the jerboa app though, for Android! Good luck!

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