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!
I’ll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
I don’t often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.
that’s not a puppy, he’s too big
I like your puppy.
Me too!
Here’s my kitty cat Kira
This is me not lurking
This is your friendly neighborhood deviant trying not to lurk
Watch me engage with someone
Watch me watch you engage with someone
This is all terribly engaging!
Don’t tell me what to do, I’ll engage when I’m ready >:(
hol up
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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!
Using the jeroboa app rn and it’s fairly intuitive.
Alright… this marks the end of my lurking lifestyle then, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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.
Was lurking on Reddit for 10 years, made just 9 comments that whole time; when there’s so much noise you don’t feel you have much to add to the conversation. But us lurkers have a chance to be heard in a growing community and help shape it in some way, gotta get out of my comfort zone I guess.
Always a bad sign when one of the top comments is trying to compel users to engage.
I saw Lemmy has already grown a lot over the weekend and I’m all for it getting bigger! To be honest I also feel a lot more motivated to actually post here instead of lurk.
And the community seems super nice so far!
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.
but i don’t have anything to say
other than fuck spez of course
Ok here’s a meme that is unrelated to anything we’re discussing but always cracks me up: