Are you doing your part?

I just joined yesterday. I'm still trying to process the change. Lots of stuff is buggy and weird, which is exciting. I just tried to post to an ADHD...sub? What are they called here? Anyway, when I tried to post I got a json error. I'm using Jerboa, I'll try from a PC later.

For breakfast I'm having some cold brew coffee in almond milk. I'm doing intermittent fasting to get some control over my weight and to stave off the type II diabetes that tends to run in my family.

Diabetes is no fun. I applaud your efforts. I've considered intermittent fasting as well.

Yep. This place feels like the internet of 2004. It's exciting to watch something grow from its toddler years to something more.
They're called Magazines on Kbin and I believe Lemmy calls them communities.

This is a good start.

I’m trying to be more vocal than I have been in the past, specifically because if everyone lurks, there’s nothing to read. So even creating silly chat threads is a good start, to drive engagement.

I don't proselytize, since everyone I know uses facebook, twitter etc. I'm the only one who views non-anonymous social media harmful on individual and community level.

Every time discussion turns to this subject, they all get this "here we go again, not listening" expression on their face. So, I'm not gonna go there anymore.

Breakfast was French tee, jogurt and mueslibar.

I know the pain. Trying to get people onto ANY new social media is like trying to pull teeth

Concentrate on just a few communities to comment and post. It'll be too easy to spread yourself thin and feel overwhelmed. If you feel you're very knowledgeable in a particular area then that community needs you now.

Yep. No time to be active in every community. We should focus on just a few each day.

Good points.

I just joined yesterday. I've always been more of a lurker, but trying to at least comment on stuff now to help get conversations rolling/more interaction. I think knowing that most of the communities are new and trying to gain traction, rather than being years old and just ghost towns gives a bit of hope.

Breakfast for me was leftover pizza

This is the way. Be the participation you want to see in the world.

Also, eggs, sausage, and grits.
- Hmm. Love grits. It's the perfect transport medium for all of the butter you put on them. 😀
Left over pizza is good breakfast food. My favorite leftovers for breakfast have always been Chinese food though.

And welcome to the federated web. I'm new here myself. I find I've been more active than I ever was on reddit. It feels like more people have good intentions here than on the other platforms.
- Ugh leftover Chinese is amazing.
  
  I can definitely see myself being more active here. I also agree it feels like a lot more good intentions here. Obviously there are asshats everywhere, but hopefully that'll be kept in check.

I feel like I've been glued to kbin since joining, and adding new posts and articles to the smaller communities I want to see active. With varying degrees of success. I was only a lurker on reddit so this is quite a lot of activity for me! Trying to embody the idea of 'be the change you want to see'...

I don't want to create magazines though as I don't want to moderate and feel they would be better created by someone more dedicated.

Oh and breakfast was a sesame bagel!

Better start contributing yourself first :) We all flock to content and building a community takes time.

I started by posting into my favourite communities [email protected] and [email protected]. Starting to feel like it's getting traction now. I'm sure many checked the communities out and didn't stay because there was nothing to comment and no questions, and creating a post can be intimidating. Go for it!!

Breakfast: Air and water because I wake up too late to work every morning...

Hope you have an excellent lunch later. A rumbling tummy can be distracting.

I'm trying to contribute on the regular. One downside is the Jerboa app. It crashes when trying to add a community outside of it's search bar. I'd have subscribed to more except for that. I might find more stuff to participate in if that were not the case.
- Thanks! I did and agreed!
  
  And glad to hear you are active, sad about jerboa crashes :( I use lemmy as a PWA and it has been great, but still looking forward to a stable app. Let's hope development catches up!

That would imply that I have some sort of duty to participate. I do not.

I am doing what I would have done on reddit, comment, interact with people. I rarely made posts over there as well though. I do also tell people about lemmy and about the jerboa for lemmy mobile app

What am I doing? I'm letting it grow naturally instead of posting condescending low effort crap like this post

I’m definitely becoming a kbin shill to all my friends and I think they’re starting to get tired. I’m trying my best to leave comments on posts that I find interesting. Haven’t posted anything yet because I don’t have anything to post. I will post when I find something interesting enough (I do have a backlog of stupid memes on my camera roll?).
Breakfast was a granola bar. Slept in because it’s a holiday and I don’t have class. There’s a cinnamon roll I was planning on saving that I’m now eyeing.

I swear if I mention kbin or the fediverse to my friends one more time they're gonna disown me
Hmm. Cinnamon rolls. Yummy.

Yes. I've always believed that you teach best when you show how through your daily actions.

I have nothing interesting to post about. I'll just upvote and comment here and there. If I find a community I like, I will engage more often.

I messaged the owner of /m/[email protected] to see if they intended to be active and didn’t hear back, so I made /m/[email protected] and have been posting anything relevant I could while I wait for other people that maybe care at all about that stuff.

Otherwise I’m trying to pick one sub to post to for each of my broader hobbies, and I respond regularly to whatever pops up in /all

No food yet just coffee - probably make an egg Sammy soon

Same here with the coffee. I'll have a cup or two before moving on to a banana or apple later.

Excellent work in creating a community You're braver than me. I'll join both. Although my cigar smoking is a rare occurrence, I do enjoy a good tobacco.
that reminds me of the monty python sketch with the phrase book

I created my community (for fanfiction), after realizing I couldn't wait for someone else to do it. I don't usually have enough spoons to constantly post things. Interacted some, but not a whole lot on Reddit. I'm working with what energy I do have to make a good foundation.

Hopefully, one day, enough people will be around to interact I can go back to my comfortable amount of interaction. I just want to read people talking about their projects and what they are enjoying! It can't be too much to ask!

@a_mac_and_con Just subbed! I was looking for it and found another fanfiction magazine that only had a single post that was created a few days ago. I was disappointed, but then I found yours. Thank you.

@MyMulligan
- Welcome aboard! Let me know if there is anything I can do to improve the place. It's my first time doing this!

https://giphy.com/gifs/5L2okTiupVRxC

Loved that crazy movie!

I‘m commenting as many things as I can think of and upvoting everything, but other than that I haven‘t contributed much. It‘s a work in progress.

I’m not posting. And I need to be. But I’m voting like a motherfucker.

Many hands make for a lighter load. When the time is right you'll find what you want to post. Thanks for all of the updoots.

Trying to! This comment is testing federation stuff, so we'll see if you see this over on lemmy.one!

Edit: And...This comment went through. Interesting! Not sure what's happening with other instances atm. 🤔

Definitely saw it over here at lemmy.one.

👍

I've been consistently sorting by all+new and trying to comment on posts that relevant to me. It can be a bit difficult when it's just a link or image though.

And Raisin Bran

I started a magazine on kbin.social for the anime I like but since the community stayed behind it's only me there. However, I still repost fanarts like I usually did on Reddit.

Which anime?
- Lycoris Recoil: [email protected]

For now I think the most important thing is simply keeping discussion in the big / obvious / front-page areas active enough that new users see that it's a lively community. We don't necessarily have to recreate every esoteric subreddit right away, that can come in time; the important thing is that whenever a new person shows up they see a bunch of recent posts and a bunch of recent comments (and not a ton of spam / ads / whatever).

Think of it a bit like walking around a city you don't know and trying to pick out a restaurant to have dinner at - maybe you can't find your favorite cuisine, but if a place looks clean and new and lively and the bar is well-stocked then perhaps it's OK if the menu is a bunch of New American blah blah whatever because you're still going to end up happy and fed. (and can note with interest the sign about the Romanian Enchilada place that's opening next month and remind yourself to come back then)

I created a lucid dreaming community: https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming
I've added a few threads, articles and videos. Hopefully that's at least something to start with.

That is so cool! I was able to lucid dream in my twenties after discovering an article and then a book about it. I still remember the four lucid dreams I had. I then let the skill slip away. It was a lot of effort and I found I couldn't be overly tired in order to do it. I'll have to check the group out. Maybe I'll build the skill again.
- That sounds awesome :) Yeah, it is possible to approach it in a "lighter" way. If you don't take it too seriously, for example, or learn to enjoy your non-lucid dreams. Also finding the "right approach" for you will help. It's definitely exhausting to put a lot of energy into something that isn't working well.
Thanks for adding this, subbed!
- Excellent! See you over there :)
Sadly I can't browse it from my instance... Guess I'll have to use kbin a bit more
- Lemmy? Someone else asked me to add a "link for lemmy". I'm still new at all this, so I'll look into it.
- Does this link work? https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]

Currently not doing enough to help. Real life has just been far too eventful lately and I haven't been online much haha. But I will try to convince people to subscribe to some of the sports communities my instance is hosting. Want to help grow it.

Besides that, just upvote as much as possible and comment as much as possible, and throw out posts for a community even if you think it's not that interesting. Just need to fill up the wall and show there's frequent activity and the people will come

I'm making an app with a focus on streamlining pain points for user signups, and discouraging looking for centralized lists of the biggest groups by "crawling" the network for servers and communities based on what you see and who you interact with. I hope by making this easy, I can push smaller, more diverse communities in the fediverse

It's getting close. I'm almost at the point where I can switch over to my app from jerboa for daily use, and then I'll try to put out a beta

I had grits, I really need to go grocery shopping

That sounds good. My experience with finding an instance was just a shot in the dark. It would be good to have an app that helped in finding an instance that met your needs.

I made @Internetparents but it's still very quiet

Also, what’s for breakfast?

toast and coffee, as (almost) always

Open invite for all musicians to head over to !songcovers on the reddthat.com instance and post their cover videos! I'd love to get that community going but only two posts so far!

I've been making discussion oriented posts on a lot of communities that have little to no content. It's been somewhat successful.

I am an ex-reddit user and had to leave due to u/spez ruining the platform.

I've had a look on the different decentralized platforms we have in today's age, and stumbled upon kbin.
I really like it.

I've been told if i want to start a community, i would have to run it on my linux server. Is it relatively easy for others to join? I could easily run one if any of you have a suggestion, drop me some ideas.

Question:
These communities, are they working on all decentralized platforms? Like mastadon? Or is it for strict use on kbin?

You don't need to have your own server to open the equivivalent of a subreddit (magazine) just click the plus in the topbar and click "create new magazine" :)

My co-mod and myself are keeping the content flowing, interest in hunting for and engaging with the type of content we publish seems light right now unless you are on twitter. We'll keep it flowin and stealthy build in public.

In the begining I was rolling through the subs that I'm interested in that weren't getting a lot of engagement and posting something, and trying to engage with some other content that was on there. I'm doing it when I have time. Hopefully others are doing the same.

We're getting there, it def feels as though these instances have more legs than the Twitter Masto experience in the fall. Just gotta keep engaging and sharing content. The emphasis though should be on engaging on pre-existing content, with meaningful comments. Just dropping in and saying "interesting article" probably isn't going to be helpful.

my boardgames post has so much interaction
Correct on that. Every magazine/community needs wise souls sharing their knowledge and insights on things. Ask Historians and some science subreddits were a big draw for that.

We could also use good story tellers who make for some interesting reading in the comments.

Given time all of that will happen here.

It would be nice to have assurances that if the instance you are on goes dark then another instance can take care of you and your stuff. I don't know enough about the concept and workings to know if that's the case.

I'm doing my part. I'm posting on here and created a new magazine. Sure it's not the most active but there's only so much I'm gonna do about it.

I am a conversationalist but not a prolific content poster.

I try to comment as much as possible on stuff I feel is interesting and I boost and upvote every thread I comment in.

I'm actively looking into getting the kbin project installed locally so I can get some UI/UX pull requests going. I've given it a good go today but keep running into issues getting it set up, I've already logged a report and joined a forum with other devs but everyone is busy AF with their own thing so I guess all I can do is wait :(

It sucks to to be stuck.

If randomly there's a person on here who's familiar with docker and yarn I could use all the help I can get!

I’m somewhat decent with both of those but I think I should try to install it myself first ;)

Sort by new, comment and subscribe to communities on other servers. That seems the easiest way to doing something "cheap".

Sorting by New and All is the best way to find active communities and magazines. I'm hoping that my subscribed list becomes as active as New currently is.

@MyMulligan

What are you doing to help your community?

I've joined the new equivalents of the coule of major communities I was very active in, and have been trying to contribute to conversations instead of just lurking. I know when I joined it was a little disheartening to see so little activity/content. If newcomers are going to stay, there needs to be both!

How do you go from lurking to contributing?

That's a good question. I make it a point to comment on any post I find slightly interesting, and to try and make it a discussion-based comment, not one that just dead-ends immediately.

As far as as posting goes, I'm still working on that one. Reddit was a source of a lot of news and such for me, so I'm slowly getting new sources for that to share.

I think for a lot of people, it's easier to contribute here because the overall user base is so much smaller and it feels like you have a voice, whereas on Reddit even fairly prominent community members could still get drowned out on their community's subreddits by all the noise.

Spreading the word?

I've been talking to friends about my recent shift into the Fediverse and why it's a good concept and how my experience has been. They seem interested in the concept, but aren't bothered by Reddit's actions, so they probably won't jump ship. Not going to be pushy about it, just want people to know how cool the concept is, you know?

Also, what's for breakfast?

Just woke up, so I'm still deciding. Most likely eggs and toast!

At least 1 post a day, and always thinking of post ideas. Comment on everything in as productive way as i can, and check inbox and reply. Donate to my instance.

I'm honestly just trying to post content to communities I'm interested in. If people show up and there's no content they'll just leave. I'm trying to submit interesting posts.

One thing has always amazed me about social media, you never know what will catch the community's interest. My rule is if I find it interesting and I have the time, then up it goes. Thanks for your many posts.

@MyMulligan Planning to add a few articles. Daily post. Weekly themed things. Things to get people talking.

Today's breakfast is Fried Tofu and Rice, with some salt. Simple but delicious.

Love flavorful rice!

I created and mod three magazines for topics I'm very interested in. I am also pretty much the only one who posts links/microblogs in them, but I figure if I keep it up enough, others will find the content and start contributing as well.

I started yesterday. Liking it so far, blocking some magazines that are maybe for teens.

My question is about comments. When I'm on kbin and browse a different instance's communities, I'll see comments, but when I switch instances to say lemmy.world there'll be more comments or entirely different comments.

Are comments only local to your instance?

I created an alt and created [email protected] and [email protected]

I really hope this works out. I'll start trying to post more frequently.

I created this magazine if anyone is interested. I could always use some help with content!
https://kbin.social/m/Watches

kbin, lemmy, saidit, aagh I've established so many logins everywhere to try to replace the void that uSpez has created in my life, and this "fediverse" is complex & unsatisfying to my idle mind that just wants to relax in idle moments.

am eating MealSquares for breakfast. it's new-age complete nutrition in a brownie. i live on this stuff & it's amazing. i'm thin, fit, healthy, & i feel fantastic. effortless nutrition. Sorry if i sound like an ad. i'm not. You asked what I'm having for breakfast.

I would love to contribute, but I’m still finding the fediverse chaotic and difficult to manage. And I haven’t really found the communities in which I’ve got something interesting to share. Hell I don’t even always manage to subscribe to communities cause suddenly I’m supposedly not logged in (which I am) and even worse on the kbin app, I don’t even know how to subscribe to a magazine. So as long as I’m not getting it it’s probably best to stay away from posting. But I’m staying off Reddit and upvoting everything I see here to help out as much as I can and know how to.