Time for us lurkers to step up and post!
I’m really hoping the Lemmy community reaches its potential! But to achieve that, I realize it’s important to contribute to the content. As a chronic Reddit lurker, I’m going to do my best to comment and post to help this platform grow. It’s hard to break the habit of being a creepy voyeur after 10 years. Wish me luck!
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I suffered from the same sentiment, here's to building a better community!
Yeah, Reddit has me conditioned to be afraid of you guys. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised with all the positivity and friendliness on this post. Thanks everyone :)
Fear wasnt ill founded. Jannies where wild back there. I got banned various times for getting into heathed arguments. Some as ridicolous as benches (im not joking). First time whas due to swearing but al the other ones didnt have swears. Im kinda scared right in this site since its new ground for me and dont whant to blew it since i wanna stay here for a while
A very interesting insight--thanks for helping me understand the lurker dynamic/psychology. I guess I've felt the fear: many times I've composed a post or comment--and then backed out for fear of having to deal with a shit show as a result. Being a solo mod might have some advantages in that way...
Welcome the circus. I read an interesting post that said Reddit has the bulk of the users for this type of social media, but the users who add value and post etc. are the ones you need. The users Lemmy needs to attract are not the crowd that lurks. It’s the crowd that posts and adds value. That is a much smaller group of users.
I wonder if Reddit hasn’t already started losing them. The post quality has dropped a bit and some of the comments are so confusing that it’s hard not to think they’re AI generated. They’re just nonsense.
Reddit has had a really bad (imo) bot problem for years. I'm sure at least some are AI generated comments trying to seem human, even if just to experiment with it.
Yeah, reposting bots have been rampant for a while. And I assume chat GPT and the like are about to make that problem WAY worse. That situation alone could cause a massive quality problem on Reddit. If a decent portion of active (human) users leave (or have already left), that would just magnify the issue.
I wonder if there is a threshold they’re going to hit where they hit a death spiral due to legitimate users leaving en masse. Hopefully.
On the other hand, people are creatures of habit and I could see Reddit surviving despite bots/ai/and associated quality issues.
Here's something to consider: many of us were using reddit for several years. That's years of exploring, building, and bonding with communities. So when you come to Lemmy, don't expect that it will be a 100% replacement immediately. It takes time. Stick with it. Explore and post in different communities. Grow your usage gradually. You cannot reasonably expect to find everything you are looking for right away.
Same here m8. I been using lemmy since yesterday and literaly just made this account 5 miutes ago since rif alreaddy stopped responding. Really liking lemmy right now, im kinda worried that its gona be kinda lonely for a while while more people start coming in if ever. Maybe something as scaled back as this is gonna be fine since political shit in reddit was getting kinda wild with subs like politics and whitepeopletwitter constantly flooding /all... started getting sick of it. And it seems that im here they are more calm on that front so thats a good sing i guess. But im rambling now so im just gonna wish you good luck and happy scroling.
I mostly just enjoy reading varied opinions of others rather than having much to say, but I'll try to start responding more!
Dyslexic lurkers of the world untie!
Dyslexics are teople poo
I have
sex dailydyslexiaReddit user of 10 years here, last day of being able to use Boost over there, so just starting to figure this place out!
I came from boost too. It's going to suck when I Google something that leads to Reddit and I can't "open in app" into boost.
I bring glad tidings! Boost for Lemmy
Amazing
Just signed up. Fingers crossed.
Another lurker refugee from
redacted. I hope I can help a community grow.I'll join you. I was a 95% lurker on Reddit. Hopefully I can do more here. I also want more people to know how much of an asshole Spez is.
I'm commenting.... Is that enough?
Yes, commenting on posts is almost more important than posting itself.
Figured I'd also throw out a first comment here to get the ball rolling and hopefully try and lurk less than I did on my previous ~10+ year old reddit account. Hello to all the other refugees! <3
I'm doing my part. Hail me as I'm doing important work.
This dude...err...lemms?
Way to lem!
I think so. IIRC, "active user" is defined as someone who either comments or posts.
I never comment and it's weird coming from reddit, but I really do hope this takes off. I love the fundamental ideas the federated universe or whatever operates on.
Hello, kind sers! I am here as a total noob, making my second comment. I am such a lemming (is this what we call ourselves?), hurr durr! Normally, i am a lurker who sometimes comments. But you're right, we need to throw coal on the gas, so it burns for longer and heats up the joint. I'm not particularly funny or insightful to create original content. That being said, where can i post random funny stuff i get from friends and/or have saved in my phone?
100% the same. I've been trying to post or comment at least once a day to make the daily active users number go up.
Either way I've already posted more on here than on Reddit, so that was an easy win for me.
I lurk. I comment. I Lemmy.
This is actually more usable than I expected
Do it, don't be shy.
No. People are scary.
If you want a community with training wheels and is open to general discussions, come say hi. Its a place where you can work past the fear of being downvoted or insulted. You are welcome here. 😀
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/bbses
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/247310
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/41195
Lemmy is life now. Lemmy is home. Lemmy lurk here please. 🙂
I've been more active on Lemmy the last fortnight than Reddit in months, Reddit's swarm of Facebook users had already killed the quality of the platform.
Lurk to avoid Downvotes...
G'luck!
I had a 16 year old Reddit account and maybe commented 10 times. I’m here to contribute!
Love to hear this. Welcome to the fediverse. I’m excited to be here with you all.
I should clarify I have been on Reddit for 16 years - not that I’m 16 years old.
Haha! That would be a funny mix up. I imagine most people here will be 25+ but maybe I’m wrong. If some 16 year old has the acumen to join the fediverse, power to them. Frankly, anyone that wants to join this is welcome because they’ve decided to move away from all the corporate shitty social media.
It's much the same for me. I'm committed to at least try and be a more active part of the Lemmy community.
Does this count as a post?
Yup
Good luck! I'm also a 10-year chronic reddit lurker. Will do my best to be an active contributor to Lemmy. 😀
Very much the same goes for me. Have been lurking over there for more than ten years, sucking in all the information, content and memes that got uploaded. I won't be to active on Lemmy since old habits die hard but you never know. For a dezentralized future that holds true to the small guy!
I'm doing my part!
I'm still a little confused about how this place works, but im getting the hang of it.
Hell yeah more interaction, more growth
This platform has a surprising potential, I hope more reddit users find this to increase the user base and content
Good luck!
So what are the best "subreddits" so far on Lemmy?
Use Wefwef and search for communities either the same name as your old Reddit communities. Many of the old communities have been ported and are starting to grow!
Is there a android app I could use?
You are can try Liftoff, see if that works for you, you can also try installing the lemmy site as PWA link from your mobile browser which is not bad tbh.
I'm using Connect for Lemmy on android and I'm fairly happy with it. I've been seeing people say Liftoff is good too. I'm just waiting for the developer of Reddit Sync to finish his app.
If you're on ios, I've been hearing good things about wefwef.
Wefwef is good I just wish it was a real app rather then a web browser based one
Edit: turns out if you just add the web page to your Home Screen it functions in a manner almost identical to an app
Connect for Lemmy is pretty good.
Time to start posting
Same boat. Good luck!
Let's hope this doesn't fizzle out
I'm trying to contribute here as well!
The communities I'm part of, are still not part of lemmy/kbin. I've decided to be a lurker via old.reddit and be an active contributor in Lemmy.
Same here man. I’ve always lurked but since Apollo no longer works for Reddit here I am, hoping this community takes off?
This may be a silly question, sorry if it is, but can anyone tell me why some comments on posts are yellowed like this? What does that indicate?
First post, thanks for having me 😀
Which iOS clients do you all use?
I believe the only iOS client right now is Mlem. It is in beta, which means you need to install it through TestFlight. I just did this and it’s actually really easy.
Go to Mlem on Github
Near the top you’ll see two buttons next to each other: “Download” and “TestFlight”
First tap TestFlight and download the app (assuming you don’t already have it).
Once that is installed, tap “Download” and the link should be opened in TestFlight.
Install and go.
Thanks! I’m going to try Mlem and Liftoff
Welcome! I'm currently using Liftoff on Android, but it's also available on iOS. Here's a post with other Lemmy & Kbin apps to choose from.
This one is my favourite so far, thank you!
Great; you're welcome!
You can't tell me what to do!
I agree (This is my first comment, and I am doing it so that I would be counted amongst the active members of lemmy - lemmy only counts ppl who have posted or commented as active users)
I agree, and I want to post things, but I've recently become a parent of twins, and they dominate my life. The only thing I have to post is pics of my kids. That's not good content. This isn't Facebook, Nobody here wants that.
I would be interested in twin mania stories
Here's a comment from a 12 year lurker of that other site. Time to start contributing.
Haha. Well, I'm trying. Might be back to lurking when I rediscover that I don't have very much I want to share.
Yo
First post! (doing my part).
I'm doing my part!
💪😎
I was a chronic reddit lurker as well, and I really love Lemmy and want to post more. It's so much fun to find communities I used to lurk at and actually post on them now :)
Feels great to be part of something new from the beginning. We will make it work my friends
right here with you!
I'd like to post, however I'm totally uninteresting, and I've got nothing to say.