I joined this morning to get a little ahead of the curve.
There zero reason this place couldn't replace Reddit entirely if people just give it a chance.
I really hope people don't just drop it once the blackouts end.
I'm a fairly active and experienced
shitpostercontent creator on Reddit who will fully shift towards sole posting here (well, at Lemmy in general, across different "branches") if things don't improve there. Which, sad to say, looks increasingly unlikely.It probably won't get as many upvotes, but that's fine. Artists continue drawing even if their works don't get much public appreciation, simply because they enjoy creating, and other creatives (e.g. meme-makers) like me are no different - upboats and engagement in the comments are nice, but most of the joy comes from seeing the final product just as one envisioned it in their mind. Of course, if it brings others joy, that's a bonus.
Get enough of these people migrating over, and you have a small critical mass that will create sufficient content for lurkers to look and go "Hey, that's something I wanna be part of." Then "not being on there/in the know" becomes stranger than "being on there", and... the Lemmy servers will probably buckle under the influx. Heh.
Artists continue drawing even if their works don't get much public appreciation
They might cut off one of their ears though.
It has potential but the learning curve is starting to be a real drag for me. I'm confused by this setup in general and don't particularly feel like getting a phd in lemmying just to shitpost, you know?
I'm still very new myself, so probably I've not yet hit the point in the curve where things get confusing. But it's good to know that gifs work just fine.
Please let me know what areas you are struggling with and I'll do my best to explain. I think the difficulty of Lemmy is being exaggerated and maybe if things are explained succinctly it will help the community tremendously. I will try my best.
someone should host an instance on lemmy.in
definitely lmao
Welp. I think I've seen enough puns today.
Beautiful.
Thank you, it's one of those moments everything when clicks together just perfectly :D
I was just thinking these reddit memes were getting a bit tired and then I saw this
I'm
notsorry
Quality original Lemmy content.
YES!
So many instances are far too small to scale rapidly against the waves of people...So there is probably going to be a lot of this going on. 😹
This is me and I appreciate the refuge
Needs to change alot tho.
My final comment was a join Lemmy link, so at least one of those people banging at the gates is my doing.
Lol nice
:D
Favourite post on all of Lemmy. Hands down.
Me right now, trying to figure this out lol
This was unironically me with Beehaw so I made an account on lemmy.world instead lol
Same 😀
Same
As more and more subreddits close, no doubt that's going to happen. 😆
I'm in boys
The future is now
WHAT?
This is Bird Up! The worst instance on Lemmy!
