We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join

  • Sun-Spider
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    Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

  • Anas
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    971 year ago

    I don’t lurk just to lurk, I just have nothing to say most of the time. Still waiting on the niche reddit communities I was a part of to make it here, if they ever do.

  • Sunny:)
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    481 year ago

    Full-time lurker here, I’m trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.

  • A.R.S
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    431 year ago

    Was a total lurker in reddit. No accounts, nothing. Just browsing the subreddits.

    But I joined lemmy just to help the cause. And put up a good fight.

    Yeah. I’m seeing myself using it more and more.

    • @kool_newt@beehaw.org
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      It’s way better participating. I lurked on Reddit and things like it for years before I got the courage to speak up. I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing. Eventually I realized I’m not nearly the dumbest one, who cares lol.

      • A.R.S
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        101 year ago

        Agreed.

        For me it wasn’t about fear. I was just too lazy to make an account XD

        But yeah, participating is more fun than watching for sure.

  • @apollon@lemmy.world
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    I think we stand a chance of bringing over the best parts of reddit while leaving behind all the negative aspects, I think a lot of people who lurked before (myself included, <4000 karma after 10 years) will be much more willing to engage here.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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    321 year ago

    Getting from “I reddit” to “lemmy post that” is hard, but I agree it’s necessary to grow the communities.

  • paorzz
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    321 year ago

    I’m trying to comment more often, but I have anxiety issues. Baby steps.

  • s4if
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    I have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn’t have Idea to post though, lol…

  • @idle@158436977.xyz
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    I’m not interested in maintaining a community (I don’t have the time to be a moderator), but I have been trying to comment as much as I can. Also, if you think you have something to post about, just make a post.

    • @Astrovenator@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Same. What’s kinda nice is that unlike reddit there aren’t a hundred posts saying what you wanted to say already, so you don’t feel like you are being drowned out

    • @scutiger@lemmy.world
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      Agreed, I want to participate, but I have neither the time, nor the desire to be a moderator. I’ve subbed to a bunch of communities so far, but there are also lots that I would subscribe to that don’t exist yet. Or maybe they exist somewhere, but finding them is not obvious.

    • @Mallowmarsh@lemmy.world
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      I’m on mobile on an iPhone and it really does not like it. I was only able to create an account through my iPad, and the page froze when I tried to comment on my iPhone (it still went through though).

      Anyways, as confused as I am about this fediverse stuff, I really like it here and will try to comment and post when I can!

      • @boogers19@sh.itjust.works
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        I thought it was working alright in Edge on iphone. It was definitely looking better then old.reddit does on any iphone browser.

        But you can get the Mlem app thru the Test Flight app on iphone. It’s still being developed so it’s a bit rough. But it’s showing a whole lot of potential.

  • @dystop@lemmy.world
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    301 year ago

    More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!

    I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was “look how much better we are than reddit”.

    Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.

  • @bluemoose@lemmy.world
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    I’m a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?

  • skye
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    i would post but for now i don’t have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway

      • skye
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        91 year ago

        personally i liked having debates with people in the comments. Sometimes i’d make a dumb joke about the post, but most of the times i’d just be completely silent

          • skye
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            i don’t really get angry in debates but yes it’s fun. it’s also funny seeing the person i’m debating get angry

            • @Veilus@lemmy.world
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              I don’t get angry either but I do love feeding the trolls and/or trolling the people I strongly disagree with

          • SpankinCarl
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            Lol what’s your favorite debate that you would go into on reddit?

  • True Blue
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    That’s what I’ve been trying to do myself. I’m really not an interactive kind of person on these online communities. I’m almost always a lurker, but I’m really trying to push myself to be more active, because I want an open-source and federated Reddit alternative (and ActivityPub in general) to succeed!

    • GatoBOP
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      91 year ago

      That is the mentality that everyone should have

    • @Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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      Same. I was a long time lurker on Reddit, but hardly posted. Even on alts. Now I’m trying to be more active and upvoting since that helps drive engagement or whatever.

      I also want more open source in life, in general so I will be out here attempting to pause my introvertness for the cause.

  • Solivine
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    If we comment even when we have nothing to say we end up with comments like ‘this’