Lemmy

So far I am loving that the communities I've subscribed to on Lemmy are not only interactive, but that the people interactive are genuinely contributing discussion and perspective! It's sooo refreshing. I fucking love it.

As we get more people joining I'm sure that will slowly change; if Lemmy gets easier for people to join then it will change. If Reddit goes down completely it will definitely change: most casual redditors probably won't move unless Reddit itself no longer has the content they want.

But right now? Ahh... I'm enjoying Lemmy more than I have Reddit in well over a year.

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

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 .

I’ve always lurked on Reddit but I’ll try my best to comment more

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.

Not just Lemmy as a Reddit alternative, but I've fallen in love with the Fediverse in general. It's kind of how I always imagined social media to be like, though it still has a ways to go and has been held back because "mainstream" platforms have monopolized users and power. I definitely want to be more active here.

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

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

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

Reddit refugee here! Hope to see Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse become super popular down the line!

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

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

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

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

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

Reporting for duty!

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

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

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?

Will do

wildly hits keys on the keyboard

I'll try my best not to be such a lurker. A fresh start on here might be what I need to get me out of my comfort zone.

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'll try my best 😅

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 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.

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.

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

Me not lurking

Completely agree! I was a lurker on Reddit. I’m trying to be more active here. It seems less intimidating than Reddit.

Already been posting and commenting more than I ever did in countless years on Reddit!

I think on Reddit there was so many voices I hardly felt it was worth posting or commenting. Someone else would have already posted my thoughts and done it much more eloquently than I would have.

Here every little act of engagement helps, so I’m just jumping right in to posting & commenting without second guessing myself.