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.
good to know!
Oo oo I Wana try.
-edit- don’t use big pictures.
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This is me not lurking
Watch me engage with someone
Watch me watch you engage with someone
This is all terribly engaging!
Good words brother.
Good job, you magnificent non-lurker!
Engaging…
Oh hey how’s agoin
This is your friendly neighborhood deviant trying not to lurk
You’re right, I’ll try. I enjoy reading, but often get overwhelmed with trying to respond, so I end up just giving up and not finishing my
On no don’t tell me Candlejack has appeared on Lemmy alr
I’m pretty sure you’re safe from Candlejack in the fediverse, after all it’s
I’m just scared of everyone shitting on me tbh. My ego is too fragile for comments from strangers.
After 14 years on reddit I’m tired of watching it die, the death of Apollo is what pushed me over the edge, I loved Apollo. I’ve been browsing in here for the past few days. I like it. Trying to get used to it. Fuck reddit and u/spez all of the situation was trash. Thank you all for recommending this site!! I’m excited to be apart of it!
damn happy to have you here!
Ditto for RIF on Android dying. Lemmy will take some getting used to, but I refuse to support reddit for killing my user experience.
I’ve been looking for a viable alternative for years but nothing has ever stuck. Lemmy seems like it’s got enough community already that there should be some staying power.
Bringing spez back on as CEO was one of the worst decisions Reddit has made. kn0thing leaving was the last cliff too before the whole thing really went downhill.
Fuck spez for killing Apollo.
But…but…I like lurking.
I’ve done more commenting in this post today than I have on Reddit all year
I got woken up after 1 year of inactivity/lurking.
I feel that.
Well, I did quite literally just get this instance set up, so I guess just posting random comments is necessary.
And random replies! Discussions are what makes a social media, social. :)
Replies?! Nobody told me there’d be replies!
oh, god! a human! quick… kill its API access!
I have to say, knowing we are humans talking to each other and not bots astro turfing everything, feels nice. Hopefully it lasts.
100% agreed, my friend. I have quite a bit of hope for this new frontier of federated social. we are going to have lots of growing pains but, for the first time, I think us plebs have a real say in our future.
You’ll take my API key from my cold dead hands!
corp dev: “sir, it’s libre open source and federated, we have no power over them!”
corp mgt: “…”
👍
Random comments
I’ll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
unlurks
I don’t often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.
Here’s my kitty cat Kirathat’s not a puppy, he’s too big
I like your puppy.
Me too!
but i don’t have anything to say
other than fuck spez of course
'tis enough, friend!
Rip reddit :(
I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)
I already blocked access to reddit on my network
This is the way.
you know da wae!
I deleted Boost for Reddit. That’s about the only way I liked it. Now all I need is Boost for Lemmy.
Boost for Lemmy would be awesome, here’s hoping!
Check out Jerboa for lemmy. It hits a lot of the features the I loved about Boost. The app is fairly early alpha but if it keeps going for a while it could be a drop in replacement.
Funny you should say! Jerboa for Lemmy is what I’m using now. It leaves some to be desired but I’m hoping the influx of users helps it’s development and/or developers like Boost decide to adapt to Lemmy.
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!
FUCK u/Spez!
Hey now, /u/spez is a hero - without him, Lemmy would never have taken off like it has lol
I prefer to type my response then delete it without submitting.
Looks like Lemmy already has a me so I’m not really needed to contribute.
One thing that might keep people off is how communities are created/duplicated on Lemmy. I mean you can have the exact same community but on different instances. Then you start asking yourself which one should I join? or perhaps both? This definitely will confuse people.
subscribe to all of them and play with the feed options and sorting order. it takes a little getting used to, but it seems intuitive once you’re subscribed to a bunch of stuff. If the mobile clients develop this should become easier to manage from a UX standpoint.
I absolutely agree. I also don’t get how can you reply from entirely different apps.
It might help to think about Mastodon, Lemmy and other fediverse portals as different email programs, like gmail, outlook, thunderbird. They all use the same protocol (mail) to communicate info. ActivityPub is the underlying protocol that makes the fediverse work but conceptually your instances are like mail servers some run Lemmy, some run Mastodon, but they all talk the same language under the hood.
I can understand this, but im looking at this post from my instance (lemmyNSFW) and it has 16 score and 89 comments. But on lemmy.ml this same post has 1.28k score and 662 comments.
Why is that so different? If they are like different email programs, shouldnt the email chains be the same no matter which program you use?
that’s very interesting. my instance shows the same stats as lemmy.ml - I am thinking this is possibly due to more restrictive federation settings on the NSFW instance - one thing that looks a bit odd is that on NSFW there are hardly any subscribers to their non-local communities, so I think perhaps they are restricting this locally - are you able to subscribe to lemmy@lemmy.ml?:
I suspect it only reports the activity from that instance. Definitely feels like there is some room for improvement.
Good Analogy. Thanks!
Thanks for replying! The more I read about it, the more I’m starting to get the picture, but don’t different app/site functionalities and layouts make content incompatible. For example – the tree structure of the long form reddit style discussions of Lemmy / KBin, would look and feel really out of place in Mastodon in my opinion.
I agree with you that Mastodon and Lemmy are quite different - the point of the fediverse is that you can communicate across them if you want. Here’s our conversation showing up in Mastodon:
Lemmy is more like Reddit - principally short, text-based, Mastodon is more like twitter and there’s a lot more graphical stuff there. Personally I find lemmy more intuitive - but I was never really into twitter, whereas I wasted a ton of time on reddit.
Interestingly in the screen shot above, the reply I made to the other poster about the NSFW instance that shows a graphic doesn’t show up - I don’t know why that is, but you can see our exchange shows just fine in Mastodon. In short, I prefer Lemmy but Mastodon has loads of photography and graphical content if that’s your preference - but you can most definitely interact between them. This should be a key factor as the fediverse matures and should help to ensure that our communities continue to grow.
That’s awesome! Thank you for taking the time to write out such a detailed response!
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.
we all know its going to take a while, but the years of work behind ActivityPub and real world implementatiins like Lemmy are beginning to bear fruit - for the benefit of us all.
you’re here right now. that says a lot.
I first saw lemmy a few months ago, but forgot about it. The recent Reddit events have sparked interest again, and I am feeling adventurous. Major Social media platforms seem to collapse / mess up one after the other now, and the concept behind federation is very intriguing (especially that part that even different applications can communicate with each other thanks to ActivityPub).
Same, heard about lemmy, matrix and mastodon before, but never tried to figure it out before the current death of Reddit.
abuse of the user is pretty much baked into every corporate owned, centralized service. I mean, it literally creates an abusive power dynamic. walking away is often the only option and, without alternatives, that can be difficult.
Federated social is important because it offers and alternative that breaks the cycle of abusive and empowers the content creators and consumers again.
my apologies for using possible trigger words and concepts above, but I am so sick and tired of the same cycle time after time. we need this change.
Long time no see, Lemmy. I hope Reddit ending is for the best, and I hope all my precious communities migrate to open source software.
I couldnt say it better. Social media must be controlled by the people using it. There is no other option except bad products promoting dangerous ideas to keep people rich.
i suppose i will not lurk
I feel you, samta, I feel you
