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Do your part, try not to lurk! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement

So even if you're used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they're more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they'll just go back to reddit

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 7 points 2 years ago

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].