Memes

But if I comment then I'll break my 9 year record of being a lurker on social media!

FUCK SPEZ

Can’t we just upvote?

Plot twist: All of the "bot accounts" were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we've sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.

But it's scary

This is not a strictly commercial network. Do we really need useless comments or posts just to increase some stats numbers? I'd think about quality contents instead.

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[Two men next to one another in an office cubicle. The man on the left is sitting at a desk looking anxiously at the man on the right, who is standing and gesturing with his hands as he explains something]

Lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users

You gotta post or comment!

^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

How is upvoting/downvoting not considered being active? :/

Doing my part

But, I'm a lurker.

About 15 years ago many of us left Digg and migrated to Reddit because at that time it became kind of what Reddit is right now without even all the API shit going on.

I have been hoping for something to replace Reddit for a few years now but it seems like every possible alternative would instantly become populated by the alt-right, people who got evinced from other platforms, instead of free software loving geeks and their relatives.

Reddit actually gave us the kick in the butt that we needed to start anew and make something better. I wanted to fight, I made the subs I managed private and then NSFW but I realize it is not worth spending the energy.

We are the people who made Reddit great but there is no point in trying to keep it this ways, it isn't even great anymore anyway. Let's not be slaves to a company that only cares about profit and acts as if we need them while the truth is that they need us.

Trying to make Reddit better, at this point, is like volunteering for Microsoft instead of contributing to open-source projects with the hope that they will become less oriented toward profits.

This is already a place we can call our own, all we have to do is to furnish it and make it a nice place to be for those who understand why it is worthwhile to do so. It is not the actual owners of Reddit that made it great, quite the contrary even, they keep on making it worst. It is us, the users who made it great and we can do the same here.

I am pretty sure Aaron Swartz himself would tell us to leave the site he created if he could communicate from his grave. There is no point in wasting energy for a company that wants to sell us NFTs, virtual gifts and rewards. I never bought any of this shit anyway but I am going to make Lemmy a donation right now!

I mean, I've had a Reddit account for 13-14 years, maybe even longer, as I was a lurker who bookmarked different subreddits, prior to making an account. In those years, I have commented maybe 5 times in total. So you dont get to tell me what to do, and I certainly won't be commenting on this post.

Weird that votes don't count as activity. Oh well, here's me being active -- hope it helps.

Don't care.

Doing my part 🫡

I've already posted more here than my last 4 years on Reddit.

I've never commented so much since I was on spez's den. On Reddit I was kind of intimidated most of the time because there would be already a lot of comments, and I feared I had nothing of substance to add.

Here there's less comments, but in this case I guess less is more. 😇

Please drink water

I like trains.

I guess I probably should start commenting. Just been lurking and trying to find my communities.

Hard to do when a major app, Jerboa, can't do logins with a large instance, lemmy.world. I went through the trouble of making an account on the web just for versioning to make it unusable in app.

You're not my dad!

B - but my username

I didn't know that, how often does a user have to comment/post to be "active"? Are we only active the days we do it?

Sure, I guess I'm active, but I will go back to lurking

Sorry I'll try harder!

I just feel like I don't have anything of value to add most of the time. I just enjoy lurking.

Why do you think you need to be counted?

It ain't much...

That sounds kinda self-sabotaging but ok. I shall comment!

But what if I'm an introvert and like to lurk? Introverts unite! Separately! And in different places!

count me daddy lemmy

is upvote counted?

Voting on posts doesn't count as engagement?

What about votes? Do they count as activity?

I don't like engaging with people... but I also feel the need to help Lemmy's numbers.... what to do.