Lemmy

Aye, captain o7! I've pretty much always lurked online, something about making posts that will possibly be on the internet forever scares me. Despite my anxiety, I've posted some art on my Kbin account, might upload some cat pics soon too.

Commented and voted.

And just noticed I can bold and format easily?

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.

Will do

I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and trying to set up a game thread for the NHL Stanley Cup Finals game tomorrow. Please come join and discuss if you're interested!

I think one of the challenges is explaining the concept of how instances work. How to visit other instances, etc. It's an issue mastadon has too. It's not very intuitive to the non-tech savvy.

I used to pretty much just lurk when I used reddit, I'd maybe post a comment every few months, but really I'd just lurk. I've easily past the number of posts and comments I ever made to reddit during the many years of using it daily. Initially I wanted to make an effort for Lemmy to succeed, obviously it has less people so as your post is suggesting, I was trying to do my part. I found I really enjoy posting here though, the community is really great.

Resisting the urge to lurk, it’s making the platform more enjoyable

It's really different compared to a lot of forums in the early days where everyone use to say 'lurk moar'

This is me not lurking

Make me........... damn it

@bitsplease you are not tiny. Since the whole fediverse can interact with each other, we are nearly ten million together!

I would also suggest starting communities! The bystander effect is strong, dont worry about things too much right now as everything is still relatively small.

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

Just deleted all of my posts and a 12-year old reddit account. So long Reddit...

It's nice to be part of a smaller community again! Hopefully we see more people make the switch

I wanna see more hot takes in the gaming community. Let's get some arguments going people. Tell me what popular game is overrated garbage

You’re right lemmy could take off provided people engage. The transition is primed for thanks to Twitter educating us about the fediverse.

I think part of that is the confusion around communities, how does a community on each instance mesh together? As people are being pushed away from the primary Lemmy instance due to overloading, the smaller ones look far less populated and lead people to feel that it’s a ghost town.

So when I follow /c/memes, am I following the one on my instance, the one on the first instance that created it or a hybrid of both?

Greetings! It looks like kbin.social opened up registration again, so here I am!

Been doing my part. Logged out of Reddit last night (will delete all data and then the account if no changes are made by the 29th). I wanna see lemmy get bigger and grow. Plus my favorite part of Reddit were the discussions and such, I want to see the same engagement here!

I'll wait and see how things go.

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

Why hello I am literally just making this comment so more people see the post. My favourite thing about Fedi is how engagement works entirely different from proprietary social media. People make the Fediverse work, people being people make it such a lovely place!!

Question: If the equivalent Reddit subreddit doesn't exist that we use, should we create it? Or wait for the moderators from Reddit to create it?