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I just joined yesterday. I'm still trying to process the change. Lots of stuff is buggy and weird, which is exciting. I just tried to post to an ADHD...sub? What are they called here? Anyway, when I tried to post I got a json error. I'm using Jerboa, I'll try from a PC later.
For breakfast I'm having some cold brew coffee in almond milk. I'm doing intermittent fasting to get some control over my weight and to stave off the type II diabetes that tends to run in my family.
Diabetes is no fun. I applaud your efforts. I've considered intermittent fasting as well.
Yep. This place feels like the internet of 2004. It's exciting to watch something grow from its toddler years to something more.
This is a good start.
I’m trying to be more vocal than I have been in the past, specifically because if everyone lurks, there’s nothing to read. So even creating silly chat threads is a good start, to drive engagement.
I don't proselytize, since everyone I know uses facebook, twitter etc. I'm the only one who views non-anonymous social media harmful on individual and community level.
Every time discussion turns to this subject, they all get this "here we go again, not listening" expression on their face. So, I'm not gonna go there anymore.
Breakfast was French tee, jogurt and mueslibar.
I know the pain. Trying to get people onto ANY new social media is like trying to pull teeth
Concentrate on just a few communities to comment and post. It'll be too easy to spread yourself thin and feel overwhelmed. If you feel you're very knowledgeable in a particular area then that community needs you now.
Yep. No time to be active in every community. We should focus on just a few each day.
Good points.
I just joined yesterday. I've always been more of a lurker, but trying to at least comment on stuff now to help get conversations rolling/more interaction. I think knowing that most of the communities are new and trying to gain traction, rather than being years old and just ghost towns gives a bit of hope.
Breakfast for me was leftover pizza
This is the way. Be the participation you want to see in the world.
Also, eggs, sausage, and grits.
Hmm. Love grits. It's the perfect transport medium for all of the butter you put on them. 😀
Left over pizza is good breakfast food. My favorite leftovers for breakfast have always been Chinese food though.
And welcome to the federated web. I'm new here myself. I find I've been more active than I ever was on reddit. It feels like more people have good intentions here than on the other platforms.
I feel like I've been glued to kbin since joining, and adding new posts and articles to the smaller communities I want to see active. With varying degrees of success. I was only a lurker on reddit so this is quite a lot of activity for me! Trying to embody the idea of 'be the change you want to see'...
I don't want to create magazines though as I don't want to moderate and feel they would be better created by someone more dedicated.
Oh and breakfast was a sesame bagel!
Better start contributing yourself first :) We all flock to content and building a community takes time.
I started by posting into my favourite communities [email protected] and [email protected]. Starting to feel like it's getting traction now. I'm sure many checked the communities out and didn't stay because there was nothing to comment and no questions, and creating a post can be intimidating. Go for it!!
Breakfast: Air and water because I wake up too late to work every morning...
Hope you have an excellent lunch later. A rumbling tummy can be distracting.
I'm trying to contribute on the regular. One downside is the Jerboa app. It crashes when trying to add a community outside of it's search bar. I'd have subscribed to more except for that. I might find more stuff to participate in if that were not the case.
Thanks! I did and agreed!
And glad to hear you are active, sad about jerboa crashes :( I use lemmy as a PWA and it has been great, but still looking forward to a stable app. Let's hope development catches up!
I’m definitely becoming a kbin shill to all my friends and I think they’re starting to get tired. I’m trying my best to leave comments on posts that I find interesting. Haven’t posted anything yet because I don’t have anything to post. I will post when I find something interesting enough (I do have a backlog of stupid memes on my camera roll?).
Breakfast was a granola bar. Slept in because it’s a holiday and I don’t have class. There’s a cinnamon roll I was planning on saving that I’m now eyeing.
I swear if I mention kbin or the fediverse to my friends one more time they're gonna disown me
What am I doing? I'm letting it grow naturally instead of posting condescending low effort crap like this post
That would imply that I have some sort of duty to participate. I do not.
I am doing what I would have done on reddit, comment, interact with people. I rarely made posts over there as well though. I do also tell people about lemmy and about the jerboa for lemmy mobile app
I have nothing interesting to post about. I'll just upvote and comment here and there. If I find a community I like, I will engage more often.
I’m not posting. And I need to be. But I’m voting like a motherfucker.
Many hands make for a lighter load. When the time is right you'll find what you want to post. Thanks for all of the updoots.
I created my community (for fanfiction), after realizing I couldn't wait for someone else to do it. I don't usually have enough spoons to constantly post things. Interacted some, but not a whole lot on Reddit. I'm working with what energy I do have to make a good foundation.
Hopefully, one day, enough people will be around to interact I can go back to my comfortable amount of interaction. I just want to read people talking about their projects and what they are enjoying! It can't be too much to ask!
@a_mac_and_con Just subbed! I was looking for it and found another fanfiction magazine that only had a single post that was created a few days ago. I was disappointed, but then I found yours. Thank you.
Welcome aboard! Let me know if there is anything I can do to improve the place. It's my first time doing this!
I messaged the owner of /m/[email protected] to see if they intended to be active and didn’t hear back, so I made /m/[email protected] and have been posting anything relevant I could while I wait for other people that maybe care at all about that stuff.
Otherwise I’m trying to pick one sub to post to for each of my broader hobbies, and I respond regularly to whatever pops up in /all
No food yet just coffee - probably make an egg Sammy soon
Same here with the coffee. I'll have a cup or two before moving on to a banana or apple later.
Excellent work in creating a community You're braver than me. I'll join both. Although my cigar smoking is a rare occurrence, I do enjoy a good tobacco.
I‘m commenting as many things as I can think of and upvoting everything, but other than that I haven‘t contributed much. It‘s a work in progress.
Trying to! This comment is testing federation stuff, so we'll see if you see this over on lemmy.one!
Edit: And...This comment went through. Interesting! Not sure what's happening with other instances atm. 🤔
I've been consistently sorting by all+new and trying to comment on posts that relevant to me. It can be a bit difficult when it's just a link or image though.
And Raisin Bran
I started a magazine on kbin.social for the anime I like but since the community stayed behind it's only me there. However, I still repost fanarts like I usually did on Reddit.
For now I think the most important thing is simply keeping discussion in the big / obvious / front-page areas active enough that new users see that it's a lively community. We don't necessarily have to recreate every esoteric subreddit right away, that can come in time; the important thing is that whenever a new person shows up they see a bunch of recent posts and a bunch of recent comments (and not a ton of spam / ads / whatever).
Think of it a bit like walking around a city you don't know and trying to pick out a restaurant to have dinner at - maybe you can't find your favorite cuisine, but if a place looks clean and new and lively and the bar is well-stocked then perhaps it's OK if the menu is a bunch of New American blah blah whatever because you're still going to end up happy and fed. (and can note with interest the sign about the Romanian Enchilada place that's opening next month and remind yourself to come back then)
I created a lucid dreaming community: https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming
I've added a few threads, articles and videos. Hopefully that's at least something to start with.
That is so cool! I was able to lucid dream in my twenties after discovering an article and then a book about it. I still remember the four lucid dreams I had. I then let the skill slip away. It was a lot of effort and I found I couldn't be overly tired in order to do it. I'll have to check the group out. Maybe I'll build the skill again.
Currently not doing enough to help. Real life has just been far too eventful lately and I haven't been online much haha. But I will try to convince people to subscribe to some of the sports communities my instance is hosting. Want to help grow it.
Besides that, just upvote as much as possible and comment as much as possible, and throw out posts for a community even if you think it's not that interesting. Just need to fill up the wall and show there's frequent activity and the people will come
I'm making an app with a focus on streamlining pain points for user signups, and discouraging looking for centralized lists of the biggest groups by "crawling" the network for servers and communities based on what you see and who you interact with. I hope by making this easy, I can push smaller, more diverse communities in the fediverse
It's getting close. I'm almost at the point where I can switch over to my app from jerboa for daily use, and then I'll try to put out a beta
I had grits, I really need to go grocery shopping
I've been making discussion oriented posts on a lot of communities that have little to no content. It's been somewhat successful.
Open invite for all musicians to head over to !songcovers on the reddthat.com instance and post their cover videos! I'd love to get that community going but only two posts so far!
I am an ex-reddit user and had to leave due to u/spez ruining the platform.
I've had a look on the different decentralized platforms we have in today's age, and stumbled upon kbin.
I really like it.
I've been told if i want to start a community, i would have to run it on my linux server. Is it relatively easy for others to join? I could easily run one if any of you have a suggestion, drop me some ideas.
Question:
These communities, are they working on all decentralized platforms? Like mastadon? Or is it for strict use on kbin?
My co-mod and myself are keeping the content flowing, interest in hunting for and engaging with the type of content we publish seems light right now unless you are on twitter. We'll keep it flowin and stealthy build in public.