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.
unlurks
I like your puppy.
Me too!
that’s not a puppy, he’s too big
Here’s my kitty cat Kira
This is me not lurking
This is your friendly neighborhood deviant trying not to lurk
Watch me engage with someone
Watch me watch you engage with someone
This is all terribly engaging!
Don’t tell me what to do, I’ll engage when I’m ready >:(
hol up
After 14 years on reddit I’m tired of watching it die, the death of Apollo is what pushed me over the edge, I loved Apollo. I’ve been browsing in here for the past few days. I like it. Trying to get used to it. Fuck reddit and u/spez all of the situation was trash. Thank you all for recommending this site!! I’m excited to be apart of it!
Ditto for RIF on Android dying. Lemmy will take some getting used to, but I refuse to support reddit for killing my user experience.
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Using the jeroboa app rn and it’s fairly intuitive.
Alright… this marks the end of my lurking lifestyle then, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Was lurking on Reddit for 10 years, made just 9 comments that whole time; when there’s so much noise you don’t feel you have much to add to the conversation. But us lurkers have a chance to be heard in a growing community and help shape it in some way, gotta get out of my comfort zone I guess.
Interesting comment here, please upvote
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.
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.
Always a bad sign when one of the top comments is trying to compel users to engage.
There is no engagement algorithm; it’s us :)
I don’t mean am engagement algorithm, I mean engagement as in content to engage with. No one is going to want to move to lemmy of they come here and it looks like there isn’t anything going on