Tip to help welcome the exodus: Post and comment to increase engagement
Hi all,
The lemmy.world instance has reportedly increased to over 1k users. I think it was like at just 200 2-3 days ago. That's wild!
Anyway, I've noticed a few posts/comments by new users, mostly from the reddit exodus, hoping for increased engagement in lemmy communities. We can help this merely by posting and commenting. Lots of users are going to come over to glance and see if this is a good place for them. If they see little to no interaction, then many of them will leave. But if they see that communities are active, they will be more apt to stay and join. So, I suggest we all start posting and commenting. If your post/comment suck, then don't worry. Users will downvote it lol. We just need to spark conversation. Let's get to it!
Ok, I'm going to follow my own suggestion and start posting on /c/[email protected]. All neurotypes are welcome, so feel free to stop on by and join as you please π
I'm excited for it! There was an attempt at a mass reddit exodus over 5 years ago (I can't remember exactly when). The other sites I attempted didn't have anywhere the level of engagement that the Fediverse if getting now, and I think things are really going to pick up steam here once the blackout hits followed by the 3rd party apps shutting down. Things are looking pretty good for change π
If I remember correctly it was over censorship issues and I tried Voat for a while around then but it didn't turn out. I'm optimistic about lemmy so far though.
Excited to join in on this reddit exodus, I was used to lurking on reddit but looking forward to actually conversing with a smaller community here! Still getting my head around the fediverse and made an account on Kbin
Look like you are on kbin as well, the top level comment is actually on the bottom of the page. Weird UI choice, hopefully it can be brought to the top
Totally agree. It's a bit disappointing to see posts about interesting things with no comments while scrolling. I've only ever made one reddit comment, but this place looks nice and I'm happy to add to the discussion here.
Yep! I've been pushing the "be the change you want to see" approach to anyone who will listen and also quite a few who won't. But sometimes all it takes is one person for a community to pop off.
Awesome, itβs been forever since Iβve seen an online community that isnβt already established so itβs cool to participate in one that still growing. Iβm using mobile so there are some bugs and Iβm having trouble uploading an avatar, it lets me select the picture but it doesnβt look like it actually uploads it.
Me too! I'm excited to help the formative process so that it can turn into something fruitful.
I'm predicting that the app will probably be a bit buggy until this site gets the momentum it needs to receive more attention. Maybe one of the app developers that dropped reddit will get on it. Meanwhile, the app is good enough to interact. If I need to make any major changes, I can still use a desktop.
I am definitely a Redditfugee, I've been posting a little bit today and have gotten some responses. I look forward to engaging somewhere other than Reddit, it's just going to take me some time to figure out how this all works. I started by subbing to about 30 "magazines" (I'm using kbin) that are relevant to my interests. Not entirely sure how to filter the homepage view to prioritize those but I will figure it out.
I'm fully expecting lemmy to start to struggle in a week or two. It's typical for new platforms to have issues early on. I don't think the infrastructure will be able to handle the wave, but I'm glad to be here now. Make sure to stop by https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai for AI image generation stuff!
That just means we need more people to start more instances. The federated system distributes the load, so not one entity is responsible for carrying all of the weight.
It's a little confusing and new to me with it being this way, but super interesting!
I think a lot of people (me included) have a bit of tunnel vision and end up in the 'Local' column on the instance homepage.
Do all instances see all comments from all other instances, too? Are there things that instance owners need to set up to get this to work? Here's hoping we get some thriving lemmy communities! :)
Thanks for letting me know! I'll check it out tomorrow morning. For now, you can click on the lemmy.world front page -> Communities then find Autism by scrolling or using the search bar.
I meant off world as I'm not on this instance I'm on another world are only people who are members of lemmy.world counted or is anyone who comments or subs from another instance counted
I just tried to post a comment in the Colombia community and I got the error "language not allowed . Does anyone know what could cause that? I tried Spanish and English and same thing.
Lol, it's definitely a barrier to entry. I'm a professional tech dev, and I still had to spend a good deal of time researching to get a solid understanding of the nuances. The nice thing about fedi is that it doesn't seem to matter TOO much which server/group you go with.
The way it was explained to me was its kinda like email, you dont need to have a yahoo email to email someone on yahoo, you just need to have any email. You can pick an instance that you like the UI of the best or whatever and then access whatever fediverse content you want.
Well the way I'm thinking of it in terms of Lemmy, it's like if a lot of "reddits" websites (instances) used basically the same source code, and had a protocol to interact with each other so you could sub to subreddits on other reddits and posts on other reddits showed up on r/all