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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] 2 points 2 years ago

Lemmy reminds me of reddit is fun

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Good call. I’m really digging it here. I have my home instance in programming.dev with a pretty relaxed community there, and I can subscribe to even the popular stuff.

I’m gonna stick this out awhile.

[–] mnoom 2 points 1 year ago

but idk what to say :(

[–] penguinsAreRapists 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But I have nothing interesting to say...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not me!

[–] Kaliax 2 points 1 year ago

Totally agree, we need to build for the long term. Engagement has power.

[–] Bluehood380 2 points 1 year ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It can be tough sometimes, but find those communities you already love and say something - even a little thing is engagement!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I’ll try 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we get any benefit from hosting our own Lemmy server? I am a tech nerd and love new IT projects. Sorry if this is off topic, please redirect me someplace else if there is a better thread to ask my question in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The main benefit is being in total control of your experience on lemmy

If you're on someone else's server, you don't really have any control of federation, and your instance admins could just decide to defederate some instance that you enjoy seeing content from without your say. Similarly you may want to defederate from an instance, but on a public server you'd have to appeal to the admins to do so for the entire server.

Other than that it's mainly a "because it's cool" thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ehm.. OK? Gosh, this is hard.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello everyone

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