Lemmy

Yes, people who are leaving reddit are making Lemmy more active which was the only missing thing to make me delete reddit entirely. Before that it was too slow to get new content but now it is alright, thanx to reddit, long life to lemmy .

You can't tell me what to do!

I’m doing my part! After killing my 11 year old Reddit account

But....but...I like lurking.

Another lurker here. Been well over a decade and this is the first time I feel like contributing again. Really hope the fediverse catches on this time.

I have no idea what I'm doing

I think the presently smaller user base makes it easier to feel comfortable posting and talking, plus I feel as if many could be motivated to participate more because of the ideals the community upholds through FOSS. It certainly feels good to post here, a more guilt free experience.

I've just created !board_games@lemmy.ca and !tabletop_rpgs@lemmy.ca, does that count? :P

Hello everyone. This is literally the first thing I'm clicking on after registering

Bro literally triggered lurkers

Yeah I keep telling myself to comment. It really doesn't come naturally to me after years of lurking.

Will do

I've always been a lurker on the other site but I think I'll be much more active on here!

Reporting for duty!

I can't seem to post an image in a comment, does anyone else get the same?

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

I wanted to post the starship troopers "I'm doing my part" meme

EDIT: I think it's my local instance.

I couldn’t agree more!

In effort to try to add value to posting, I found a mobile app for iPhone. It’s clearly in beta. I’m not associated with them at all, and I hope they don’t mind me posting the results of my Brave search.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Does posting and replying from another server count as "not lurking"?

This is probably the first-ever post to surpass 1,000 upvotes.

wildly hits keys on the keyboard

well this felt like a personal callout but i will try a little to do this, and to be active as a user rather than a lurker

Posting memes always seemed so easy until you have to do it lmao

Me not lurking

I think, for mass appeal lemmy will ultimatively need communities for popular topics (games, trends, etc.), which can bring in lots of new users. From what I've seen so far the topics are still rather niche, or can't compete with identical communites on major platforms. When the traction starts getting big enough, it might just run on its own.

This comment is also more or less a test, trying out the platform.

I remember reddit in 08 and it was better, less toxicity

I joined Lemmy today. I've been getting into Mastodon recently as well and I have to say the comfy feeling I'm getting from the governance resiliency of FOSS and federated spaces(FFOSS?) is wonderful. This has the same feeling as when I first tried GNU/Linux so many years ago. :D

More than that, spread the word around. Help people register. If Reddit users don't know that lemmy exists no one will use it. We have to get more people AWARE.

I'll try my best 😅

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?

Trying hard! What I'd need is a browser extension (Firefox) that just sends me to the fediverse as soon as I type "old.reddit.com" into the address bar to kill some time. Old habits die hard.

Based on my experiences on Reddit, I've honestly found that voting is not just incredibly easy¹, but also something that at least I found myself engaging with when I didn't want to write a comment myself LOL

¹ due to the very local results of votes in this kind of format, it doesn't have the same feel as, say, a thumbs up on YouTube (and I very rarely engage with thumbs up etc as a result there), if that makes sense? Like, it's limited to that particular level of the conversation

I signed up... checks notes... 3 years ago?! I don't even remember why! But I haven't posted much or at all since then. Now that Lemmy is gaining traction and is becoming more active, I'm trying to contribute to it as much as I can. So far, I've tried to comment at least once a day.

I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)

I'll try to remember to post things here that may be relevant