We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join
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.
So you were going to remove this extremely important message for Lemmy growth only because you think it is targeted towards Lemmy users? It is targeted toward lemmy.world and Lemmy users thats why I putted it there, the message is more important than just being wrong community. The message is important. It is the second most upvoted post for a reason
Instead of locking every post and giving very bad impresion to new users can you just do a read before post and delete the NEW content that is unrelated? Everyone would apreciate that
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.
I couldn’t agree more. I understand a lot of us moved here from reddit, myself included, but I think we have to stop talking about it so much.
All the introverts: o.o’
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.
Even commenting and upvoting is something
So far people have been much nicer here. And besides, who cares if someone judges you or feels like you didn’t contribute anything, that’s their problem not yours!
I feel you.
I am currently also just on reddit for lurking or searching things like “best maple-sirup which could be bought in germany”.
However, if my wife can move from france to germany because of our relationship, I can move from reddit to lemmy.
Absolutely this!
I constantly feel as if my opinion is too worthless (or even plain wrong) to leave comments literally anywhere. And while it is great to know that I’m definitely not alone and there are people who feel this way, it is very sad and unfortunate that we even have to worry about it.
First comment!
I have always felt exactly the same way. I almost never posted or commented on Reddit for the same reason, constantly worried about negative or aggressive responses. Didn’t have to spoons to always spend ages typing and re-typing a comment to make sure it came across exactly as I wanted it to and add something of as much value as possible x___x
I like the philosophy of beehaw and hope that it will help me start getting over this mental blocker. :)
Another lurker here, but somehow it feels like it has been a lot easier to post on here compared to reddit. Hopefully Lemmy continues to have good discussion without devolving too much into reddit meme comment chains and the like.
I’ve already made more comments and posts than I ever did on Reddit. I’m doing my part! o7
great
Same! It feels great!
It’s definitely tough to break the lurking habits.
I created a community based on one of my hobbies to end my lurking habit: https://lemmy.world/c/backcountry
For now, I am just posting about one photo a day from my collection with some text that tries to drive interaction. There are 15 people in the community so I am hoping things start expanding at some point. All it costs me is a few minutes a day to choose and post a photo.
Yes! That’s what I did as well gemstone faceting check it out!
Nice! I am glad I’m not the only person trying this strategy. I do need to admit I am completely unfamiliar with the wold of gemstones. Do you just go out and look for the initial stones?
(Btw I think you have a typo in your link? https://lemmy.world/c/faceting )
Argh! Thanks, fixed the link.
I generally buy the rough from dealers or gem shows. My bucket list has a couple of line items to visit some mines and buy direct.
Ah that would make sense that they need to be mined. Still, that is a cool hobby I have never heard of before! You should make a post explaining the full process. Perhaps I will make a post explaining back country skiing as well for those who have never heard of it.
(edit: subscribed! You got me interested)
Good idea, I’ll work on a write up with pics.
I was excited for a backcountry sub but I see it’s just for winter skiing and snowboarding. That name is kind of confusing. I was hoping it was for backcountry camping and hiking like on Reddit.
Which sub were you thinking about specifically out of curiosity?
I created it to replace the /r/backcountry subreddit which was also skiing and snowborading. Perhaps it makes sense to broaden the scope a bit since the lemmy community is small. I could reasonably moderate hiking and camping stuff as well.
I will make a post over there asking people what they are interested in.
Oh, Maybe I was thinking more of r/wildernessbackpacking, r/campingandhiking, or r/hikingcanada type subs. When I say I’m going to the backcountry I mean hiking and camping, but I also don’t live near mountains so it’s probably more regional to me. Maybe that’s why I never subscribed to r/backcountry, it’s just been so long since I joined a bunch of subs I can’t remember. I think it would be good to have a separate summer vs winter community.
I think it would be good to have a separate summer vs winter community.
Possibly, I don’t really know. My other thought is that the back country skiing subreddit was always kinda small and with the smaller number of people on Lemmy, its probably even smaller.
Its hard to get communities going initially so if broadening the topic helps, I’m for it.
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, this is key, fewer but more vibrant communities rather than many mostly empty ones.
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 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.
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.
Don’t tell me how to Lemmy…
I mean you’re right.
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.
Same here! Though, I’m also a chronic upvoter, so I hope that makes up for it.
Upvoting is also important to make the best content appear on top
Upvoting isn’t working for me. I click it, watch it change, then after about 2 seconds the upvote goes away.
I was having the same problem, but if you refresh the page it should stay blue :)
This also works if your comments aren’t appearing.
And comment if you even have something remotely decent to say. And add a profile picture.
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.
Well i had an account just to lurk on reddit, but like anything else in life things eventually come to an end. I don’t know what kind of content can be easily imported here. Years ago, i would post about a variety of things, but recently the content that i see is much less varied than it was, so posting has become less interesting. Guess searching stuff on google earth is just as fun as it was than instead. It’s interesting to see all this activity without gpt-fied comments tho
Same, I was mostly a lurker. I just joined Lemmy to check out the alternatives while the blackout proceeds. I’m curious - in which subreddits did you see most of the gpt comments coming up or was it mostly an all-around thing? I didn’t think I saw too many in my feed. Still, it might also be because feeds I like such as r/crochet don’t really need to gpt-ify most of their comments. I’d assume that would more be in AITA or those types of reddits that lend themselves to spinning fictional yarns.
Big ones. Such clean academic answers left instantly to casual comments, that was weird. I was in smaller subs and never a problem, expecially the pixel dungeon ones and the roguelkes in general. Plant id and similar subs were good too, but i did not depend on those alone, there’s so many resources for that.
I checked in on the trash fire yesterday, and the smaller hobby-oriented subs I’m on were heavily targeted, possibly to keep up the illusion of engagement during the blackout. I didn’t dive into what’s happening on the comments side, but sorting by New was a trip. But outside of the blackout, yeah, usually I steer clear of the big communities and life isn’t too full of bots.
My content is pretty shit, but I’ll glady support and comment on you more interesting folks’ stuff!
At least it’s pretty! I’m sharing my stupid things IDGAF let’s go!! Share it!
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 gotta stop lurking…
Yep, together we can make great stuff
I’ve been participating a lot more here because it feels like my contributions have more impact than they did on Reddit.
