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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hey! I'm keeping this as it's targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same here! Though, I'm also a chronic upvoter, so I hope that makes up for it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Upvoting is also important to make the best content appear on top

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Be the change you want to see! In one week I've made more comments on here than the last two years on Reddit. If the communities you want don't exist, start them up and post the type of content you'd like to see.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Full-time lurker here, I'm trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try starting small. Reply more. Little things like that. Everything helps. Remember that we are interested in what you have in your life that you would like to tell us about.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think we stand a chance of bringing over the best parts of reddit while leaving behind all the negative aspects, I think a lot of people who lurked before (myself included, <4000 karma after 10 years) will be much more willing to engage here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It feels they way to me already. I think assholes are more likely to stay on reddit tbh. Lol

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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Getting from "I reddit" to "lemmy post that" is hard, but I agree it's necessary to grow the communities.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn't have Idea to post though, lol...

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I lurked reddit for years before I made my first comment. Some of the larger subreddits still feel so hostile I rarely posted on them. Enjoying the feel of this place though.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm trying to comment more often, but I have anxiety issues. Baby steps.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'd also like to post more but worry that I'm being narcissistic...Not everyone likes my weirdly-tuned ukulele music.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well no one's gonna get a chance to like it if you don't post! โ™ฅ๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (11 children)

If we comment even when we have nothing to say we end up with comments like 'this'

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most users on any given platform are gonna be lurkers

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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (8 children)

i would post but for now i don't have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not going to comment, just upvote. Wait...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

good point. For the first time ever I am now a mod - wish me luck. Re-introducing: /c/theyknew

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That, and please stop talking about reddit so much, dear god. My feed is filled with reddit news, rather than the respective topics of each community I'm subscribed to.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

First comment on Lemmy, I'll try my best not to lurk! Really hoping to see this thrive.

I always mostly lurked on Reddit for years from fear of being judged, I struggle with anxiety and feel like I won't contribute anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Even commenting and upvoting is something

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

All the introverts: o.o'

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions' parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.

Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that's obviously not happening all the time. Then there's what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it's determined to be a copy?

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, this mirrors my thoughts. There should be a way to combine subreddits with the same name, from the users' perspective. Kind of like making a multireddit for yourself.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I think the fediverse is inherently different than the "normal" Internet. The way I'm thinking about it now is that each instance is a bit like it's own town, and the activitypub protocol is the road infrastructure connecting each town. There may very well be a group of technologists in Town A, but that shouldn't stop anyone from making their own group in Town B.

That being said, it's very beneficial to be able to gather all of these disparate communities into one place, and going back to the analogy, this would be something like a city center, where many people from smaller communities come together.

Perhaps in the future, we'll be able to create our own feeds (i.e not just subscribed, local, and all). I think that would be a solid way to handle things. Bonus points if those feeds can then be shared with others, so that they don't also need to go through the work of finding and subscribing to the individual communities that make up the greater feed.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went from 15 years of lurking to making several communities and modding a couple others. This is definitely the most I've ever been engaged in online communications. I love it!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reddit-lurker for 9 years. Starting off with a comment event before understanding how this thing works. The sky is the limit from here on!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've already been enjoying posting to Lemmy/etc much more than I ever did Reddit.

Reddit always felt so set-in-stone and unchanging to the point that it made me feel like I arrived "late" to the party even though my first Reddit account was in I think 2015. Once somebody claimed a subreddit with an easy-to-remember name that was largely it, and if you disagreed with their moderating style you had to suck it up or make your own with a more obtuse name.

With Lemmy since everything's decentralized it feels much more... I guess open? If someone makes a !gamedev community that has iffy moderation issues or whatnot, I or someone else can also make a !gamedev comm on another instance without it being a problem at all.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's face it. without shitposters and casuals a social network can't thrive. You need the chaotic energy it brings.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's definitely tough to break the lurking habits.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I lurked on reddit but uh I'll make an attempt to post more

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I have always been a lurker on reddit and most social media, but Lemmy does make me want to contribute with posting and commenting.

One thing I miss and intend to build as I get more time is indexes and big posts I saw in subreddits of my interest, it would be a good thing to start migrating to Lemmy, for example.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've already made more comments and posts than I ever did on Reddit. I'm doing my part! o7

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's also stop making self aware posts, and do memes and stuff. :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I enjoy writing comments, but not so much making posts. Does this make me a "partial" lurker?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Already spammed "shitposting" community with...shitposts. ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ™‚

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