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Do your part, try not to lurk! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I can't seem to post an image in a comment, does anyone else get the same?

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

I wanted to post the starship troopers "I'm doing my part" meme

EDIT: I think it's my local instance.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Works fine for me, try your image format

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for trying. I think it might be the instance I'm connected through (lemm.ee) other people have said the same on there locally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It’s pretty cool, we can see replies and site changes in real time.

Lemmy instances going through growing pains, some larger servers will hopefully come soon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeh, your image comment came up as a popup to the side of my page. It's much faster than Reddit!

Setting up my own instance is this weekend's project.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Each instance is pretty customizable. Admins can disable things like image uploads and with so many people joining I could see why. Hosting all that could easily get expensive!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yeh, you're probably right. Especially if people started uploading videos!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

In the age of endless uploads everywhere, we all forgot that hosting large files for many people is not always easy!

I think of those early 00 stories in the time before we called content creators, content creators. Too many people visiting their self hosted videos was a bad thing that would end up costing more money than they made!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Will lead to some instances becoming larger parts of the ecosystem than others, but as this scales we should see a better choice of instances so will level out in time. Is lemmy.ml the largest instance currently?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I believe it is!

There are a few places with more complete information of every instance. I have this one on hand:

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's very cool, thank you for the link! (I'm not who you responded to)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No worries! Finding information about communities and whatnot can be a process of just stumbling upon the right comment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Your instance probably has it disabled because it uses too many resources. Use imgur like we used to do on Reddit.