We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join
Was a total lurker in reddit. No accounts, nothing. Just browsing the subreddits.
But I joined lemmy just to help the cause. And put up a good fight.
Yeah. I’m seeing myself using it more and more.
It’s way better participating. I lurked on Reddit and things like it for years before I got the courage to speak up. I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing. Eventually I realized I’m not nearly the dumbest one, who cares lol.
Agreed.
For me it wasn’t about fear. I was just too lazy to make an account XD
But yeah, participating is more fun than watching for sure.
I’m really liking it, too. I was fairly active commenting on Reddit, was a user for over 15 years, but this feels good.
I’m not interested in maintaining a community (I don’t have the time to be a moderator), but I have been trying to comment as much as I can. Also, if you think you have something to post about, just make a post.
Same. What’s kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren’t a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don’t feel like you are being drowned out
Absolutely! It’s the perfect environment for people to share whatever they want right now. Besides, many communities are relatively new and they rely completely on member activity to stay alive right now. Let’s try to keep up the activity until we’re all settled on the platform.
Agreed, I want to participate, but I have neither the time, nor the desire to be a moderator. I’ve subbed to a bunch of communities so far, but there are also lots that I would subscribe to that don’t exist yet. Or maybe they exist somewhere, but finding them is not obvious.
I’m on mobile on an iPhone and it really does not like it. I was only able to create an account through my iPad, and the page froze when I tried to comment on my iPhone (it still went through though).
Anyways, as confused as I am about this fediverse stuff, I really like it here and will try to comment and post when I can!
I thought it was working alright in Edge on iphone. It was definitely looking better then old.reddit does on any iphone browser.
But you can get the Mlem app thru the Test Flight app on iphone. It’s still being developed so it’s a bit rough. But it’s showing a whole lot of potential.
That’s awesome, thanks!
yeah the iphone site sucks. i cant even download the app bc you have to be 18 to use testflight.
More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!
I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was “look how much better we are than reddit”.
Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.
I don’t lurk just to lurk, I just have nothing to say most of the time. Still waiting on the niche reddit communities I was a part of to make it here, if they ever do.
Same here! Though, I’m also a chronic upvoter, so I hope that makes up for it.
Upvoting is also important to make the best content appear on top
Upvoting isn’t working for me. I click it, watch it change, then after about 2 seconds the upvote goes away.
I was having the same problem, but if you refresh the page it should stay blue :)
This also works if your comments aren’t appearing.
And comment if you even have something remotely decent to say. And add a profile picture.
Be the change you want to see! In one week I’ve made more comments on here than the last two years on Reddit. If the communities you want don’t exist, start them up and post the type of content you’d like to see.
But how does one even start your favorite subredditd again? I want to do Aquariums but have no clue
lemmy.ca/c/aquariums exists and could definitely use some content
First search “aquariums” and see if someone has an aquarium community running - they are roaring into existence hot and fast!
That quote is so good
Ditto, feels like we are just standing around a big semi empty gymnasium waiting to find all the other weirdos who like what we like again.
I only lurked on reddir but here saying something feels more impactful somehow. Post some fleeting thoughts to begin with, it helps to pump up our rookie numbers.
I’m a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?
That’s what I’ve been trying to do myself. I’m really not an interactive kind of person on these online communities. I’m almost always a lurker, but I’m really trying to push myself to be more active, because I want an open-source and federated Reddit alternative (and ActivityPub in general) to succeed!
That is the mentality that everyone should have
Same. I was a long time lurker on Reddit, but hardly posted. Even on alts. Now I’m trying to be more active and upvoting since that helps drive engagement or whatever.
I also want more open source in life, in general so I will be out here attempting to pause my introvertness for the cause.
Yeah same here, never felt comfortable posting on Reddit, but so far lemmy feels safe enough to get more involved with.
i would post but for now i don’t have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway
Same here - I was never an active poster, but I love commenting! Must have something to do with our personalities.
personally i liked having debates with people in the comments. Sometimes i’d make a dumb joke about the post, but most of the times i’d just be completely silent
Angry, pointess debates are so fun lol. They’re my guitly pleasure
i don’t really get angry in debates but yes it’s fun. it’s also funny seeing the person i’m debating get angry
I don’t get angry either but I do love feeding the trolls and/or trolling the people I strongly disagree with
You know you misspelled a word there. Don’t expect me to hold your hand in figuring out which one.
Lol what’s your favorite debate that you would go into on reddit?
Me too. I love interacting with content, but I am not a content creator.
Getting from “I reddit” to “lemmy post that” is hard, but I agree it’s necessary to grow the communities.
Okey , the way you wrote that pretty neat chief
I wish I could just share my enthusiasm with everybody, but I get very anxious that what I’d find interesting people will find dull or maybe even troll… that’s something I experienced with actual Reddit, I guess, and now it has carried over pretty much everywhere. I’ll try my best because I want to contribute to a better experience not just for me but everybody!
Also…DON’T MAKE TOO MANY COMMUNITIES!!! I know we all have our favorite niche subreddits that we’ll miss, but we need to reach a critical mass with a core set…and then organically break out communities into more niche communities.
Most users on any given platform are gonna be lurkers
Toilet readers.
Most are but at the beggining we need content to be lurked
Let’s face it. without shitposters and casuals a social network can’t thrive. You need the chaotic energy it brings.
I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions’ parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.
Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that’s obviously not happening all the time. Then there’s what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it’s determined to be a copy?
good point. For the first time ever I am now a mod - wish me luck. Re-introducing: /c/theyknew
Woohoo… First comment :)
Welcome, hyperslob!
Thanks cookiecollision.
I’ve just discovered the app Jerboa. It’s available for Android, don’t know about Apple. Not shilling but it’s a great experience really. I was using Relay for Reddit and I feel right at home. Really have to recommend it!
Finding it challenging to get my head around this federation concept but I have a kbin.social account also. Hopefully someone will make a good YouTube introduction to the whole affair. Happy to be here, and hats off to the Devs.
Day one here for me, also using Jerboa on Android. So far it’s working perfex@!+/“”"
I use the web version because the app has some bugs
I just don’t like using web versions of stuff. I like apps. Jerboa isn’t bad, and I imagine it’ll improve if/when more people start using it. I just started, came from Reddit when the subs went dark, but so far I like it here, and I like Jerboa.
I only like using apps too
I was only joking, the app is working well enough for me so far.
Im using mlem for iOS, but find the web experience better. Came from Apollo app for Reddit. Can’t wait till the proper iOS apps get made or mlem gets closer to how Apollo used to be!
mlem is off to a great start for such a young app! Be keen to see how quickly it’s developed, there’s a few UX and site features that would go a long way. I hope it takes off.
That’s true! Apollo has been years in the making. Excited to see how far mlem will come.
Same :)
