In the monthly server updates for lemmy.zip/piefed.zip there’s a mantra that’s repeated every month. I think it’s wonderful and can be applied to the Fediverse as a whole.
If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give
the Fediverse(Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet or merely makes things wet. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession.
(We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.
So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:
Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.
One of the major things I like about lemmy is that it allows text alongside links/images - I think it’s good when OPs use this as a jumping point to start conversation as well.
I just realized something: When I search for something in Lemmy and get zero results, I sometimes go to Reddit and search there.
It would probably be better to make a new post in Lemmy about the thing I’m searching for. It would add content to Lemmy, and the content would be newer and fresher than the Reddit results that are sometimes 10+ years old.
I try, mostly through comments and votes.
Same. I am too lazy to write full posts. Sometimes I do but i like up/voting and writing short comments more.
Comments might actually be the most valuable right now, even moreso than posts
I sometimes post questions that get a few answers, but recently those people have been ignoring my follow up questions which is quite annoying, is engagement getting so low that people don’t care to reply anymore?
IDK, I feel like I usually get more replies here than on Reddit
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This is not a personal account, it’s one for a site I’m building. I know many won’t like that as it might come as spammy, corporate or whatever, but I have decided to use Lemmy as a place for discussion -in a related community- and Mastodon as the one for news and updates (together with old good RSS) and I have done it because I believe in a federated web.
I’m tired of walled gardens and billionaire-run feuds -and every web loading endless MBs of scripts from a dozen of third-parties (I mean, sometimes it can be justified, like on very complex sites… but not on a damn text blog, come on!)- or not working with my OS/browser of choice… and I want the Fediverse to keep growing and become not only a viable alternative but -and here I’m just daydreaming, I know- the default.
And to this point this post made me realize that it won’t happen on its own -not the way most people are, anyway- and that we/I need to put more effort on it. I’m culprit of just signing up and… well, waiting. And that won’t work. So thank you from bringing this matter to me, and I’ll try to do my part from now on, if not with this account with a personal one.
I second that!
I’m out here trying to get a group going all by myself 😅 I’d be super grateful if someone broke the ice
Looks like you’ve got a good community going there. Not sure i have much to contribute, but we do have some crossover with the associated communities.
Now I won’t be posting! Hah!.. oh wait…
Gotcha!
I see a new post.
I click, I read, I scroll on.
I am the lurker.#haiku (<- test to see how far this propagates in the mastodon / microblogging part of the fediverse)
It doesn’t work well if it is not in the post itself. Here a community where you are free to test it as much as you want !testfediverse@jlai.lu
Well I agree. I post on lemmy or mastodon-like first, then only after on Reddit if I must. Many times I get a few but meaningful replies, that’s good.
Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It’s the internet so that’s not always easy but I do think that’s one of the things holding us back.
I think on the whole, we do a little better at this than other platforms. Does depend on the subject, but I see more positive, respectful interactions here than I do elsewhere.
Always a good reminder though!
Honestly that hasn’t been my experience but either way there’s always room for improvement.
How dare you invite me to participate!
A’ight you won, gotta say something for today. But i hardly understand how people do manage to be social enough to post almost every day, like, they manage to make everything interesting.
It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online.
Anyways, it truly is a very nice place here, I agree with you, thanks to thoses amazing posters who never get out of inspiration. Thank you all.
“It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online.”
Just remember everybody is anonymous and the votes don’t really matter!
Also I can guarantee you that no one else will scrutinize what you say as much as you do. Mostly they will not even remember!
Nobody really cares what I have to say.
It’s the internet, if you have something worth saying say it, someone will find it useful in the future.
That’s what I just did.
Gotta agree with /u/Spaniard here, they raised some really great points.
The amount of upvotes you get on your posts says something different
My instinct is to lurk even in this thread…
Do you want to talk about it?
I’ve been posting more often lately. I’m doing my part, soldier!
