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.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Good suggestion. I was always guilty of lurking on Reddit in the past, I'll make more of an effort here. 😊
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?
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].
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Resisting the urge to lurk, it’s making the platform more enjoyable
I saw Lemmy has already grown a lot over the weekend and I'm all for it getting bigger! To be honest I also feel a lot more motivated to actually post here instead of lurk.
And the community seems super nice so far!
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It's hard being a lurker for so long, I only started interacting with a few smaller subreddits around sporting events and then within a year, all this crap started happening. Feel sorry for all the 3rd party developers, I used Boost and I'm glad I supported the developer over the years but can't believe how they ended up being treated. Death to Reddit
Although I’m almost exclusively 100% a lurker I will try my best to make posts and post comments and stuff! Hope more folks from Reddit will join us and help make Lemmy a formidable competitor to Reddit.
Commenting for the engagement as requested, sir.
Greetings! It looks like kbin.social opened up registration again, so here I am!
Hi all, another Reddit refugee here. Glad to see communities forming!!
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.
I would also suggest starting communities! The bystander effect is strong, dont worry about things too much right now as everything is still relatively small.
Share stories, comment. Lurking doesn't generate content.