Lemmy

You can't tell me what to do!

I think the presently smaller user base makes it easier to feel comfortable posting and talking, plus I feel as if many could be motivated to participate more because of the ideals the community upholds through FOSS. It certainly feels good to post here, a more guilt free experience.

I couldn’t agree more!

In effort to try to add value to posting, I found a mobile app for iPhone. It’s clearly in beta. I’m not associated with them at all, and I hope they don’t mind me posting the results of my Brave search.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

Hello everyone. This is literally the first thing I'm clicking on after registering

Another lurker here. Been well over a decade and this is the first time I feel like contributing again. Really hope the fediverse catches on this time.

Not just Lemmy as a Reddit alternative, but I've fallen in love with the Fediverse in general. It's kind of how I always imagined social media to be like, though it still has a ways to go and has been held back because "mainstream" platforms have monopolized users and power. I definitely want to be more active here.

Yes, people who are leaving reddit are making Lemmy more active which was the only missing thing to make me delete reddit entirely. Before that it was too slow to get new content but now it is alright, thanx to reddit, long life to lemmy .

Well, I did quite literally just get this instance set up, so I guess just posting random comments is necessary.

I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)

I have no idea what I'm doing

I'll try my best not to be such a lurker. A fresh start on here might be what I need to get me out of my comfort zone.

I've just created [email protected] and [email protected], does that count? :P

Bro literally triggered lurkers

Does posting and replying from another server count as "not lurking"?

This is probably the first-ever post to surpass 1,000 upvotes.

Here's my first comment on Lemmy. I always lurked on Reddit, but I'll try not to here!

I signed up... checks notes... 3 years ago?! I don't even remember why! But I haven't posted much or at all since then. Now that Lemmy is gaining traction and is becoming more active, I'm trying to contribute to it as much as I can. So far, I've tried to comment at least once a day.

Reporting for duty!

Will do

well this felt like a personal callout but i will try a little to do this, and to be active as a user rather than a lurker

More than that, spread the word around. Help people register. If Reddit users don't know that lemmy exists no one will use it. We have to get more people AWARE.

wildly hits keys on the keyboard

I'll try my best 😅

Completely agree! I was a lurker on Reddit. I’m trying to be more active here. It seems less intimidating than Reddit.

I've always been a lurker on the other site but I think I'll be much more active on here!

I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and trying to set up a game thread for the NHL Stanley Cup Finals game tomorrow. Please come join and discuss if you're interested!

Yeah I use to be a mad lurker in Reddit, but Lemmy I have become so much more active

It's nice to be part of a smaller community again! Hopefully we see more people make the switch

Already been posting and commenting more than I ever did in countless years on Reddit!

I think on Reddit there was so many voices I hardly felt it was worth posting or commenting. Someone else would have already posted my thoughts and done it much more eloquently than I would have.

Here every little act of engagement helps, so I’m just jumping right in to posting & commenting without second guessing myself.

Trying hard! What I'd need is a browser extension (Firefox) that just sends me to the fediverse as soon as I type "old.reddit.com" into the address bar to kill some time. Old habits die hard.

Me not lurking

Based on my experiences on Reddit, I've honestly found that voting is not just incredibly easy¹, but also something that at least I found myself engaging with when I didn't want to write a comment myself LOL

¹ due to the very local results of votes in this kind of format, it doesn't have the same feel as, say, a thumbs up on YouTube (and I very rarely engage with thumbs up etc as a result there), if that makes sense? Like, it's limited to that particular level of the conversation