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
Cool, I didn’t know we could embed images in posts and they’d show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.
good to know!
I’ll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
I don’t often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.
that’s not a puppy, he’s too big
I like your puppy.
Me too!
This is me not lurking
Watch me engage with someone
Using the jeroboa app rn and it’s fairly intuitive.
Don’t tell me what to do, I’ll engage when I’m ready >:(
hol up
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Alright… this marks the end of my lurking lifestyle then, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shush! let me lurk…oh no
Another lurker here. Been well over a decade and this is the first time I feel like contributing again. Really hope the fediverse catches on this time.
Hey people of the internet. So if I’m going to not lurk, and if I have a really weird sense of humour and am downright unfunny to most of my friends, where is my community here?
Yarp.
I got a reply!
Totally agree, we need to build for the long term. Engagement has power.
but i don’t have anything to say
other than fuck spez of course
You’re right, I’ll try. I enjoy reading, but often get overwhelmed with trying to respond, so I end up just giving up and not finishing my
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.
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
Ok here’s a meme that is unrelated to anything we’re discussing but always cracks me up: