Participate in discussions if you don't feel yet like posting new stuff, even small comments help building up a community.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Agreed. One of the biggest value-adds for forums is the back and forths that bring in more ideas and information than just what was in the posted link.
I was never much of a posting or comment person on Reddit, but I am trying for Lemmy. I refuse to go back to Reddit and I hope I can contribute to these communities. Let's do it folks!
That's ok. I've shitposted hours a day for years. Reddit was a tapestry, and we're slowly removing the best threads from Reddit's tapestry and reweaving them here.
I posted maybe two dozen things, mostly text, and lurked maybe commenting 10 times a week, despite using bacon reader 16+hours a week. I'm trying to participate more by commenting. Maybe posting will become more of a thing if I find some relevant communities.
Some more ideas:
- Cross-post content from Lemmy to Reddit: to get people from Reddit to Lemmy
- Cross-post content from Reddit to Lemmy: to get content in Lemmy
- /c/asklemmy is an easy way to add content. Answer a question or ask one.
- You can bring moderators from Reddit by handing them the sublemmies you created (in case you're not interested in moderating)
Your right right I was on reddit for eight years, and never commented once. This seems like a good reason to start.
Posting comments is also helpful.
I'm actually just scrolling here to reply to some posts here as I was used to being a lurker in Reddit. More content, more engagement, more fun!
Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?
If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.
Upvote/downvote posts
Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)
This is absolutely correct! Iβve tried making a couple communities already, Iβd suggest others do that too. Niche communities might not be too popular right now, but I think itβs a good idea to make them anyway, so when people come browsing here and see their favourite niche topic has a community already, they might make an account and post in it.
Just started on Lemmy. I love how new things pop up but is there a way to not have things show up but not necessarily resort to blocking the community. Star Wars memes for my example.
This will be fixed in the 0.18 release
Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?
We're gonna need NSFW content to make this baby successful.
Genuine question: I've always used reddit as a source for information regarding work, hobbies and recommendations. Will I be able to type in ${topic} lemmy and get links to some real information in a lemmy "subreddit" regarding a topic without having to browse a top ten list of some fuck face?
in a search engine? sure, once instances get indexed
lemmy.ml is already searchable - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fediverse+site:lemmy.ml
What subs would we post photos on?
Looks like there's Photography@lemmy.ml, Photography@lemmy.world, TravelPhotography@lemmy.world, and Photos@lemmy.world.
This probably isn't exhaustive, but it's a start!
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