I'm not lurking, I'm writing this comment.
Lemmy
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
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Although I’m almost exclusively 100% a lurker I will try my best to make posts and post comments and stuff! Hope more folks from Reddit will join us and help make Lemmy a formidable competitor to Reddit.
It's really different compared to a lot of forums in the early days where everyone use to say 'lurk moar'
That brought back some old memories. Most forums had that kind of implicit rule. You were meant to see how people were posting and learn how to fit in.
I'm glad there are more internet communities open to people expressing themselves however they want, emphasizing mutual respect rather than fitting in.
I never posted on Reddit but lurked it for years using Reddit is Fun. I feel like their decision to essentially kill third party apps is just the start of pushing terrible changes that will turn Reddit into something like Facebook.
After learning a bit about how Lemmy works I'm really interested to see how it grows! Without any one person or organization at the helm it'll be interesting to see what communities naturally flourish.
Don't tell me what to do!
Ah shit...
Ok, you win this round.
I am telling everyone about Lemmy. Unite!
Alright sir, I shall upvote and comment whenever I feel I have something useful to add!
I wanna see more hot takes in the gaming community. Let's get some arguments going people. Tell me what popular game is overrated garbage
I feel like leaving reddit is a big change in my life. Hopefully, Lemmy takes off and remains a much more positive place.
Been doing my part. Logged out of Reddit last night (will delete all data and then the account if no changes are made by the 29th). I wanna see lemmy get bigger and grow. Plus my favorite part of Reddit were the discussions and such, I want to see the same engagement here!
Share stories, comment. Lurking doesn't generate content.
Greetings! It looks like kbin.social opened up registration again, so here I am!
I'm trying to create a community, but the 'create' button just turns into a spinning circle, and nothing happens. I've left that tab open for more than an hour.
So insteat, here's my first comment.
After years of lurking it’s still hard to break the habit. But I’m really liking this fediverse and will push myself to become more engaged.
Resisting the urge to lurk, it’s making the platform more enjoyable
I think part of that is the confusion around communities, how does a community on each instance mesh together? As people are being pushed away from the primary Lemmy instance due to overloading, the smaller ones look far less populated and lead people to feel that it’s a ghost town.
So when I follow /c/memes, am I following the one on my instance, the one on the first instance that created it or a hybrid of both?
Each instance has its own communities and they're separate from each other. If someone created a /memes/ community on another instance it would be its own thing, but people from other instances would still be able to view it.
To view a community on another instance you'd have to put the instance name in the URL. For example, if there was an instance called "coolinstance.com" with a community called "stuff", then for users on the coolinstance.com instance the URL for that community would be coolinstance.com/c/stuff. If there was another instance called reallycoolinstance.com, they'd still be able to see the "stuff" community, but to them the URL would be reallycoolinstance.com/c/[email protected]. They'd also be able to create their own "stuff" community, and people on coolinstance.com could access it by going to coolinstance.com/c/[email protected].
Hi all, another Reddit refugee here. Glad to see communities forming!!
I'll wait and see how things go.