I'm confused by Lemmy but also excited to try and help it grow.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Resisting the urge to lurk, it’s making the platform more enjoyable
Just created a magazine for EASportsFC (formerly FIFA)! I kept looking to see if someone would make a magazine and just said why not make it myself. (insert squidward meme "when i’m in a worst moderator competition and my opponent is NeighborlyNomad")
e: link here! https://kbin.social/m/EASportsFC
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I am telling everyone about Lemmy. Unite!
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
Agreed! I am curious with this, how did you guys find out about Lemmy? In my case, I was scrolling through Reddit and saw somebody talking about Lemmy. I researched a little bit and here I am! I would love to hear from y'all tho
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It’s a bit difficult getting into Lemmy and the feediverse I gotta say. But after looking around for a while I really like how things work here, compared to reddit
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I've been on reddit for far longer than I'd care to admit. It's been a weird feeling deleting all of my bookmarks and apps in an attempt to avoid just absently mindedly returning.
Just deleted all of my posts and a 12-year old reddit account. So long Reddit...
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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?
You're following the original. If I started a sub in lemmy.one and you then move to lemmy.ml, you can still sub to the original one. You don't need to be in a particular sub's instance to participate in it. It's great, right?
Edit: I suck at explanations.
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I'll wait and see how things go.
Greetings! It looks like kbin.social opened up registration again, so here I am!
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!
Finally I can speak instead of fearing bots and lurkers.
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.
No Lurking from me!
In all honesty, Thankful to be here and have something to turn to. Excited to see the massive improvements Lemmy takes on over the coming months with traffic from reddit.
Hi all, another Reddit refugee here. Glad to see communities forming!!
Good suggestion. I was always guilty of lurking on Reddit in the past, I'll make more of an effort here. 😊