We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join
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.
So you were going to remove this extremely important message for Lemmy growth only because you think it is targeted towards Lemmy users? It is targeted toward lemmy.world and Lemmy users thats why I putted it there, the message is more important than just being wrong community. The message is important. It is the second most upvoted post for a reason
Instead of locking every post and giving very bad impresion to new users can you just do a read before post and delete the NEW content that is unrelated? Everyone would apreciate that
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.
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?
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.
I wish I could just share my enthusiasm with everybody, but I get very anxious that what I’d find interesting people will find dull or maybe even troll… that’s something I experienced with actual Reddit, I guess, and now it has carried over pretty much everywhere. I’ll try my best because I want to contribute to a better experience not just for me but everybody!
I share this experience with you. It is really weird. When I was a kid, I was chatting in Yahoo chatrooms and posting on forums and I really don’t think anyone cared what I had to say back then. These days, I can have real conversations but am too timid to do so!
I feel like as kids we’re just so passionate about what’s on our minds. We’re still reckless and impulsive and less caring about what others think. When we grow up and understand the world a little better, we realize it’s not so nice of a place we thought previously, and there’s a lot of jerks around :( I hope we can find that childlike wonder of simply engaging with someone fascinating again.
This is the best time to change it for good. So many nice people around here!
Same! I grew up on yahoo chat and age of empires forums, I wish I could stop worrying about what others thought.
The Pokemon rooms on Yahoo! chat were my jam! I played a LOT of Age of Empires as a child but I don’t think I ever knew there was a forum for it.
For what it is worth, I have enjoyed this small exchange!
People here is so nice I dont know why but the problem is when more people join It will be harder to keep the peace so more mods will join and keep the peace
It’s definitely going to be harder when there are more different personalities mingling together. It doesn’t help some people just want to see the world burn no matter what the cost… while I want to say, “Enjoy it while it lasts!” I don’t want to have that kind of scenario be the default. At the end of the day, we gotta make sure we contribute into making this space the space we want it to be, and that means reporting whatever we can that break the rules, posting quality content, and just being a decent person in general. We got this, internet friend! :)
Dear Faye, thanks for sharing because I feel the same way and have the same type of anxiety when it comes to posting. Many times I finish a draft and then delete it instead of posting because I think “who cares? Someone else said something similar.”
But your post has motivated me to contribute more. Thanks!
I spent 12 years of my life reading walls of text on Reddit because I knew they were authentic pieces of someone else’s life they were sharing on the internet.
The most interesting posts are the ones that go in depth on some random niche topic that you’d expect no one to care about. Be it an Indie game with 5 players, or a random reptilian species with a cool ability.
So yes, I care! I doubt I’m alone in that regard. Please do post your thoughts 😁
Sidenote: this was before the era of ChatGPT, but I highly doubt a significant number of people are going to intentionally waste others’ time by posting ChatGPT generated content.
I’m very very happy to hear that! I look forward to seeing you around :D
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I just got into an argument with someone complaining about the blackouts (trolling I guess) on another community. So exhausting. These will always exist, I guess.
Some individuals just get off annoying people, unfortunately. Ignore, report, and engage with somebody else seems to work most of the time! I hope this won’t wear us down!
Also…DON’T MAKE TOO MANY COMMUNITIES!!! I know we all have our favorite niche subreddits that we’ll miss, but we need to reach a critical mass with a core set…and then organically break out communities into more niche communities.
That, and please stop talking about reddit so much, dear god. My feed is filled with reddit news, rather than the respective topics of each community I’m subscribed to.
I couldn’t agree more. I understand a lot of us moved here from reddit, myself included, but I think we have to stop talking about it so much.
First comment on Lemmy, I’ll try my best not to lurk! Really hoping to see this thrive.
I always mostly lurked on Reddit for years from fear of being judged, I struggle with anxiety and feel like I won’t contribute anything.
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.
Same here! Though, I’m also a chronic upvoter, so I hope that makes up for it.
Upvoting is also important to make the best content appear on top
Upvoting isn’t working for me. I click it, watch it change, then after about 2 seconds the upvote goes away.
I was having the same problem, but if you refresh the page it should stay blue :)
This also works if your comments aren’t appearing.
And comment if you even have something remotely decent to say. And add a profile picture.
Be the change you want to see! In one week I’ve made more comments on here than the last two years on Reddit. If the communities you want don’t exist, start them up and post the type of content you’d like to see.
But how does one even start your favorite subredditd again? I want to do Aquariums but have no clue
First search “aquariums” and see if someone has an aquarium community running - they are roaring into existence hot and fast!
lemmy.ca/c/aquariums exists and could definitely use some content
That quote is so good
Ditto, feels like we are just standing around a big semi empty gymnasium waiting to find all the other weirdos who like what we like again.
I only lurked on reddir but here saying something feels more impactful somehow. Post some fleeting thoughts to begin with, it helps to pump up our rookie numbers.
All the introverts: o.o’
I’m not ready for this responsibility.
I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions’ parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.
Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that’s obviously not happening all the time. Then there’s what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it’s determined to be a copy?
Yeah, this mirrors my thoughts. There should be a way to combine subreddits with the same name, from the users’ perspective. Kind of like making a multireddit for yourself.
Oh I like that idea way better. Basically, having the option to combine posts in the duplicate communities across instances.
I have no idea if the technology allows for an implementation of that multislice with multiple slices with the same name but different instance, but I hope it does because it sounds interesting. At least from a user perspective.
I think the fediverse is inherently different than the “normal” Internet. The way I’m thinking about it now is that each instance is a bit like it’s own town, and the activitypub protocol is the road infrastructure connecting each town. There may very well be a group of technologists in Town A, but that shouldn’t stop anyone from making their own group in Town B.
That being said, it’s very beneficial to be able to gather all of these disparate communities into one place, and going back to the analogy, this would be something like a city center, where many people from smaller communities come together.
Perhaps in the future, we’ll be able to create our own feeds (i.e not just subscribed, local, and all). I think that would be a solid way to handle things. Bonus points if those feeds can then be shared with others, so that they don’t also need to go through the work of finding and subscribing to the individual communities that make up the greater feed.
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But for example, /c/chatgpt community on infosec.pub instance might have different conversations to other /c/chatgpt communities on other instances, as (I presume) there’s a lot of industry/tech/infosec heads on that instance. So someone looking for a community can see them all and decide if what instance’s community right for them.
Whereas on Reddit, there can be only one /r/chatgpt, so you have to find adjacent subreddits.
I’ve seen that as well, but that existed on reddit and even IRL - religions and clubs nearly overlapping due to either disagreements or lack of awareness of each other predates the internet by centuries.
Reddit-lurker for 9 years. Starting off with a comment event before understanding how this thing works. The sky is the limit from here on!
Let’s face it. without shitposters and casuals a social network can’t thrive. You need the chaotic energy it brings.
i’m going to start adding this lemmysub to my pic posts every friday for sure.
I’ve already made more comments and posts than I ever did on Reddit. I’m doing my part! o7
