Participate in discussions if you don't feel yet like posting new stuff, even small comments help building up a community.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Agreed. One of the biggest value-adds for forums is the back and forths that bring in more ideas and information than just what was in the posted link.
I was never much of a posting or comment person on Reddit, but I am trying for Lemmy. I refuse to go back to Reddit and I hope I can contribute to these communities. Let's do it folks!
I posted maybe two dozen things, mostly text, and lurked maybe commenting 10 times a week, despite using bacon reader 16+hours a week. I'm trying to participate more by commenting. Maybe posting will become more of a thing if I find some relevant communities.
That's ok. I've shitposted hours a day for years. Reddit was a tapestry, and we're slowly removing the best threads from Reddit's tapestry and reweaving them here.
Yeah! It'll take time but we'll get there!
If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.
Upvote/downvote posts
Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)
This is absolutely correct! Iβve tried making a couple communities already, Iβd suggest others do that too. Niche communities might not be too popular right now, but I think itβs a good idea to make them anyway, so when people come browsing here and see their favourite niche topic has a community already, they might make an account and post in it.
Your right right I was on reddit for eight years, and never commented once. This seems like a good reason to start.
Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?
One of the things reddit has over its alternatives is the vast amount of content it already gathered over the years. Sharing that content here might give people more consideration to join. Also i get why people frown upon reposts, seeing the same over and over again. But there are always people who haven't seen it. So under the right circumstances i encourage reposts, especially with useful posts.
It also feels different when there's no karma to gain and it's properly credited
I've started taking some of the better content from r/nootropics and posting it in a new sub and crediting the user. Years of great info that will be stuck in Reddit if not brought over.
I think depending on the community, some may need reposts in order to get up and running here.
For example advice subs should probably repost any FAQs, links and usefull things they collected in reddit through the years
Some more ideas:
- Cross-post content from Lemmy to Reddit: to get people from Reddit to Lemmy
- Cross-post content from Reddit to Lemmy: to get content in Lemmy
- /c/asklemmy is an easy way to add content. Answer a question or ask one.
- You can bring moderators from Reddit by handing them the sublemmies you created (in case you're not interested in moderating)
Whoops I already deleted my old Reddit posts. LOL But I have more than enough cat pictures for the other communities. :)
Cat tax is always good :D
I suggest that:
- if you are able to, help with development:
- look through open issues, give answers and advice
- participate in the feature request discussions
- maybe even make pull requests
- Help people who are confused about how things work
- explain that many current issues are not present by design but because project is still early in development
- Encourage other people to help develop Lemmy and help take care of newcomers
- promote Lemmy in other parts of the internet
I'm actually just scrolling here to reply to some posts here as I was used to being a lurker in Reddit. More content, more engagement, more fun!
Are there any judgement/advice type communities?
Those were also popular and were often sent around creating buzz about Reddit. And memes, jokes, funny etc.
Yeah. AITA is one of my favorite subreddits, so it would be nice to have a similar community here
Looks like there's a few of these! Good tool to search for these across Lemmy is Lemmyverse btw. I don't know if there's similar for Kbinstances yet.
https://sh.itjust.works/c/amitheasshole
https://lemmy.ml/c/aita
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/amitheasshole
Ohhh, this is great stuff thanks!
Honestly even just commenting is doing a ton to help keep lemmy going. We're not going to be a big as Reddit any time soon, but that doesn't mean we have to be a ghost town either.
Exactly this is where Im trying to contribute more. On reddit I rarely commented and posts were just for niche communities where I had questions
Genuine question: I've always used reddit as a source for information regarding work, hobbies and recommendations. Will I be able to type in ${topic} lemmy and get links to some real information in a lemmy "subreddit" regarding a topic without having to browse a top ten list of some fuck face?
in a search engine? sure, once instances get indexed
lemmy.ml is already searchable - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fediverse+site:lemmy.ml
Nice, because I think that is what lemmy or any other reddit substitute needs - searchability of the knowledge that is contained on that platform
What subs would we post photos on?
Looks like there's [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
This probably isn't exhaustive, but it's a start!
Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?
We're gonna need NSFW content to make this baby successful.
Just started on Lemmy. I love how new things pop up but is there a way to not have things show up but not necessarily resort to blocking the community. Star Wars memes for my example.
This will be fixed in the 0.18 release
Probably the easiest way at the moment would be to subscribe to those communities you're interested in and switch the feed to subscribed. Otherwise whether you're viewing local or all you're going to get some communities you may not be interested in seeing.
Personally I block the ones I really don't have an interest in, but I understand not wanting to if you don't have to.
Another thing I think people could do, is to gather links to relevant smaller communities and post them to larger communities, to help discoverability.
It would also be helpful if mods understood that there are a lot of new users here so shitting on someone for making a mistake is only going to hurt the community. Redirection and corrections donβt have to come with shitty passive aggressive comments.
I thought that was the whole point of being a mod. /s
Posting comments is also helpful.