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
Cool, I didn’t know we could embed images in posts and they’d show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.
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good to know!
“Would you like to know more?”
Can we share this info with others? Or is this like Netflix where you say yes then change your mind and bill me $8.99/per at a later point?
Hey cool a free image!
This is me not lurking
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ppfft, get on my level scrub. :P
Holy shit that’s amazing! I really need to step up my game.
My screentime for reddit was like, 30 hours a week before this week.
I probably should’ve quit link aggregation sites altogether. Would’ve been more healthy. It’s like a part time job lmao.
They’ve truly fucked up by messing with the few users like you that basically hold the site together. Welcome, and remember to spend time doing healthy activities, will you? ;)
*remembers my actual job being a truck driver working 6 days a week*
yeah… healthy. yup.
Hahaha nice, made me exhale
I mean idk how long youve done it for but if it hasnt killed you then it cant be that bad for you.
I’m in my 20’s, there’s plenty of time lol. Just a lot of sitting. And way too many hours working a week, plus an ever changing schedule resulting in terrible sleep.
And admittedly this is a nice passive way to decompress after a work day
Wow. You just made me check and I was on reddit for 14 hours a week. Hopefully the fediverse won’t be as addictive (so far is not looking good)
I don’t use Screen Time for this exact reason. I don’t wanna know how much I used Reddit, and I don’t wanna know how much time I’ll spend on Lemmy.
> joined 1 day ago > this is my third comment
At this rate I’ll take you over soon!
I thought Rogers was strictly Canadian, but you moderate Houston Texans community?
Lol, it had nothing to do with Rogers the telecom company. That’s just the URL I happened to own for personal reasons.
Holy smokes 84 comments? You must have commenting superpowers or something
135 by my count. (Just means I’ve been commenting in communities that your instance hasn’t discovered yet)
Edit: instance, not insurance lmao
Ok here’s a meme that is unrelated to anything we’re discussing but always cracks me up:
Definitely. Everyone on Lemmy at this time seems very reasonable as well and I am finding that the discussion is typically of a much higher quality than on Reddit, so for those who don’t usually engage, try it, it’s definitely worth a shot here.
i made an instance but using it is still kind of overwhelming tbh, but im excited to see where it goes so i can ditch reddit
Reddit conversations have always been either “Google en passant” or something worthwhile, or the third one where it’s just an agreement. Can’t say I am not guilty of doing all of them.
Big time introverted lurker on reddit, since here is a much smaller community, I don’t feel so intimidated. I’ll try to be more active here. Let’s do this guys, let’s create a great place for all the Reddit Refugees. FUCK u/Spez!
This is kinda exciting ngl
I really, really hope the open internet takes off again
It’s like a new chapter of internet history! Maybe. Seeing Reddit getting dark was chilling. Edit: Wait, some subreddits did go dark already, right? Or am I just feeling the pressing atmosphere?
Oh yeah. Many have already gone dark. The real D-Day is the 12th.
Yeah, a slow trickle of subreddits have already gone dark in response to the announcement of all the 3rd party apps shutting down at the end of the month. And I imagine today’s AMA fiasco has only accelerated that
Definitely agree, it feels like the start of something really really promising.
@BarneyKB @bitsplease It’s very exciting!!! I’m just going to hold off a little bit until it gets to the early beta stage before standing up my own instance. That much said, I’m enthusiastically cheering the #lemmy devs on. Lemmy has good bones and a good plan of attack. I expect it only to improve.
I lurked for years at Reddit before posting. doing it here on the first day
I’ll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
Woah, I’m lurkin’ here!
I just wanted to say that I am impressed with the mentality here. Everyone seems so engaged (at least at first now) that Lemmy feels alive although we are relatively few people, still. That reminds me somewhat of the early stages of the internet, when everything was still new and you felt special for being part of something big blowing up. Keep it up and try not to create redundant communities on every instance!
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To be fair, I’m not sure if it helps to generate “fake” activity. IMHO the migration to lemmy will only work if the content will at least have a minimum amount of quality. Just posting random memes is probably not a good way to start.
This is the way.
