We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join
I don’t lurk just to lurk, I just have nothing to say most of the time. Still waiting on the niche reddit communities I was a part of to make it here, if they ever do.
Full-time lurker here, I’m trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.
Was a total lurker in reddit. No accounts, nothing. Just browsing the subreddits.
But I joined lemmy just to help the cause. And put up a good fight.
Yeah. I’m seeing myself using it more and more.
It’s way better participating. I lurked on Reddit and things like it for years before I got the courage to speak up. I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing. Eventually I realized I’m not nearly the dumbest one, who cares lol.
Agreed.
For me it wasn’t about fear. I was just too lazy to make an account XD
But yeah, participating is more fun than watching for sure.
I’m really liking it, too. I was fairly active commenting on Reddit, was a user for over 15 years, but this feels good.
lil fun fact: Participating in social media can actually boost your mental health, while lurking around out of FOMO, doomscrolling , whatever else can make you less happy.
source:https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/social-media-positive-mental-health/
Getting from “I reddit” to “lemmy post that” is hard, but I agree it’s necessary to grow the communities.
Okey , the way you wrote that pretty neat chief
I’m not interested in maintaining a community (I don’t have the time to be a moderator), but I have been trying to comment as much as I can. Also, if you think you have something to post about, just make a post.
Same. What’s kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren’t a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don’t feel like you are being drowned out
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Agreed, I want to participate, but I have neither the time, nor the desire to be a moderator. I’ve subbed to a bunch of communities so far, but there are also lots that I would subscribe to that don’t exist yet. Or maybe they exist somewhere, but finding them is not obvious.
I’m on mobile on an iPhone and it really does not like it. I was only able to create an account through my iPad, and the page froze when I tried to comment on my iPhone (it still went through though).
Anyways, as confused as I am about this fediverse stuff, I really like it here and will try to comment and post when I can!
I thought it was working alright in Edge on iphone. It was definitely looking better then old.reddit does on any iphone browser.
But you can get the Mlem app thru the Test Flight app on iphone. It’s still being developed so it’s a bit rough. But it’s showing a whole lot of potential.
That’s awesome, thanks!
yeah the iphone site sucks. i cant even download the app bc you have to be 18 to use testflight.
More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!
I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was “look how much better we are than reddit”.
Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.
I tried to move over to Voat but it very quickly turned into a cesspit.
It’s almost as if making a site dedicated to people too racist, sexist, antisocial, etc, for even Reddit’s lax moderation policies, was a bad idea.
And that’s before it became a central hub for literal treason.
I just made a version of one of my favourite subs, which I think most people could contribute to: !hypotheticalsituation@lemmy.sdf.org
I forgot all about voat.
I’m hopeful that large scale subs going dark will help us. That and being forced off of 3rd party apps.
the community here is doing a decent job - I think it’s just whether we can all continue to engage actively here (and not get up to shenanigans like defederating from everyone else ahem)
Oh man, I forgot about Voat. That place was… interesting for a little while.
I’m a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?
Same with me. For what it’s worth, the people here seem genuinely nice. :D
i’m also joining the first comment train, choo choo!
This is my first comment too! I’ll try engaging with others more despite the fact I also lurk a lot on Reddit :D
I am too but hey, look you inspiring me to comment too! Honestly I do try to comment but I’m more determined than ever to lurk less and engage more!
i would post but for now i don’t have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway
Same here - I was never an active poster, but I love commenting! Must have something to do with our personalities.
personally i liked having debates with people in the comments. Sometimes i’d make a dumb joke about the post, but most of the times i’d just be completely silent
Angry, pointess debates are so fun lol. They’re my guitly pleasure
i don’t really get angry in debates but yes it’s fun. it’s also funny seeing the person i’m debating get angry
I don’t get angry either but I do love feeding the trolls and/or trolling the people I strongly disagree with
You know you misspelled a word there. Don’t expect me to hold your hand in figuring out which one.
I’ll have you know I graduated college magna cum laude. There is literally no way that I misspelled a word.
Lol what’s your favorite debate that you would go into on reddit?
Me too. I love interacting with content, but I am not a content creator.
That’s what I’ve been trying to do myself. I’m really not an interactive kind of person on these online communities. I’m almost always a lurker, but I’m really trying to push myself to be more active, because I want an open-source and federated Reddit alternative (and ActivityPub in general) to succeed!
That is the mentality that everyone should have
Same. I was a long time lurker on Reddit, but hardly posted. Even on alts. Now I’m trying to be more active and upvoting since that helps drive engagement or whatever.
I also want more open source in life, in general so I will be out here attempting to pause my introvertness for the cause.
Yeah same here, never felt comfortable posting on Reddit, but so far lemmy feels safe enough to get more involved with.
I wish I could just share my enthusiasm with everybody, but I get very anxious that what I’d find interesting people will find dull or maybe even troll… that’s something I experienced with actual Reddit, I guess, and now it has carried over pretty much everywhere. I’ll try my best because I want to contribute to a better experience not just for me but everybody!
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I feel like as kids we’re just so passionate about what’s on our minds. We’re still reckless and impulsive and less caring about what others think. When we grow up and understand the world a little better, we realize it’s not so nice of a place we thought previously, and there’s a lot of jerks around :( I hope we can find that childlike wonder of simply engaging with someone fascinating again.
Same! I grew up on yahoo chat and age of empires forums, I wish I could stop worrying about what others thought.
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This is the best time to change it for good. So many nice people around here!
People here is so nice I dont know why but the problem is when more people join It will be harder to keep the peace so more mods will join and keep the peace
It’s definitely going to be harder when there are more different personalities mingling together. It doesn’t help some people just want to see the world burn no matter what the cost… while I want to say, “Enjoy it while it lasts!” I don’t want to have that kind of scenario be the default. At the end of the day, we gotta make sure we contribute into making this space the space we want it to be, and that means reporting whatever we can that break the rules, posting quality content, and just being a decent person in general. We got this, internet friend! :)
Dear Faye, thanks for sharing because I feel the same way and have the same type of anxiety when it comes to posting. Many times I finish a draft and then delete it instead of posting because I think “who cares? Someone else said something similar.”
But your post has motivated me to contribute more. Thanks!
I’m very very happy to hear that! I look forward to seeing you around :D
I spent 12 years of my life reading walls of text on Reddit because I knew they were authentic pieces of someone else’s life they were sharing on the internet.
The most interesting posts are the ones that go in depth on some random niche topic that you’d expect no one to care about. Be it an Indie game with 5 players, or a random reptilian species with a cool ability.
So yes, I care! I doubt I’m alone in that regard. Please do post your thoughts 😁
Sidenote: this was before the era of ChatGPT, but I highly doubt a significant number of people are going to intentionally waste others’ time by posting ChatGPT generated content.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I just got into an argument with someone complaining about the blackouts (trolling I guess) on another community. So exhausting. These will always exist, I guess.
Some individuals just get off annoying people, unfortunately. Ignore, report, and engage with somebody else seems to work most of the time! I hope this won’t wear us down!
I’d also like to post more but worry that I’m being narcissistic…Not everyone likes my weirdly-tuned ukulele music.
Well no one’s gonna get a chance to like it if you don’t post! ♥️
Hehe true, well here’s today’s recording
So sick. What do you call it when something feels old-world but also futuristic? Love how you shot this too.
Thanks! Glad you liked it! I saw that uke online and just had to have one, the neon lights looked so fun.
I don’t actually know a good word for old fashioned but also futuristic.
I call it retrofuture but I’m sure there’s actually a real term for it haha.
Thank you for posting! It was so immediately evocative.
Thanks for kind words, glad you enjoyed!
I hope this isn’t a stupid question but is that ukulele glowing or is that just the lighting? It looks pretty cool!
Yes it’s glowing, there’s LEDs in it :D
It’s amazing! Thanks for sharing that vid.
dont get in your own head man, relax and just do you
Thanks for kind words _
Most users on any given platform are gonna be lurkers
Toilet readers.
Most are but at the beggining we need content to be lurked
Also…DON’T MAKE TOO MANY COMMUNITIES!!! I know we all have our favorite niche subreddits that we’ll miss, but we need to reach a critical mass with a core set…and then organically break out communities into more niche communities.
Yes, for sure we need content, but it’s not helping for all us Reddit refugees to start spamming crap. What’s needed here is good content.
It will happen as all the new users get settled and comfortable. If Reddit is an example, there will always be fewer people who create posts than people commenting, and fewer people commenting than lurking. It’s human nature.
I don’t think the hierarchy you described is human nature but the effect of the state of affairs on Reddit. Think of Lemmy as a more chaotic version of Reddit where the status quo has not yet developed. Speak up your mind and help building the Lemmy status quo.
I don’t know, I’ve been a manager for a lot of years, and I see the same dynamic/breakdown on my teams. A small percentage are willing to bring up a topic with the group, no matter how candid and accepting the atmosphere is. Once they do, there are more who will chime in on it to agree or disagree. But half the group will generally stay silent, but might come to me later 1 on 1.
