What are you doing to help Lemmy thrive?

Showing up.

Now where is my participation trophy?
- 🥉
- I left mine in the birthing wing of the hospital. Literally everyone was getting one. /s
This is just like work!

Scrolling through the top 20 posts a dozen times a day. You're welcome!

You make every of us proud.

I'm posting and commenting more than I did on reddit.

Much needed

Trying to post quality content when I have time.

Built a UI with some nice bells and whistles

Helping other admins when I can.

Along with trying to add contributive posts here and there, I'm also trying to be more mindful about upvoting. I think most us like to see appreciation and acknowledgement of our post efforts, so a little upvote goes a long way towards encouraging content creation.

Telling people to stop treating the normies like they're inferiors.

Seriously this platform is full of people who think they're smarter than everyone else and people who take being privacy aware to a point where clearly they're just making their own lives more difficult

Contributing content as best I can to a couple communities, browsing /all and joining new communities and trying to be polite.

I think being polite is going to be pretty critical towards growing this community. Nobody wants to hang out with a bunch of nasty trolls.

Voting, commenting, sharing content and news articles in relevant communities nearly ever day. Reporting spam. So basically, just actively participating.

I'm still using reddit (desktop only) until they shut down old.reddit. That's been my line in the sand ever since the redesign was launched. So whenever possible I do my best to recommend lemmy and/or explain how it works to anyone interested because I think Lemmy would appeal to most redditors. The problem is the average person has it in their head that the fediverse is a lot more complicated than it actually is. Everything can be learned as you go. Which is exactly how I learned the ropes on reddit 12 years ago. But since so many people insist on having their hand held I'll jump in to help out when I can.

For Android users, recommend Boost (which just launched). It used to be a Reddit client, then the dev made it for Lemmy. I did try to get into Lemmy without a solid app, but couldn't do it. Boost changed that for me. Now Lemmy is as smooth as Reddit was. Recommending an app that makes it as easy as Reddit might help for some people like it did me. :)

Occasionally comment.

Post cat, make comments, click the arrows.

Cat

Posting about all of my magnet fishing adventures on [email protected] in the hope that people find it interesting and that maybe one day I won't be the only person making posts there.

I originally just wanted to join a magnet fishing community, but I found that there wasn't one so I made one myself and starting posting.

Contributing content to the few smaller communities I'm interested in and know more about, mostly from RSS feeds that I am using for my own use.

Commenting more often than I would have otherwise, especially on discussions about how Lemmy can be improved. The site is still young and has lots of room to improve, so it's worth helping with that guidance

For a few particular communities that are split between Reddit and Lemmy, I'm trying to work with a few others to help ease the migration. It won't happen all at once, and instead it's better to make the community here useful for that particular topic. Setting up an official parallel community and bringing over some moderators from the other community should go a long way :)

Running an instance!

I was thinking about doing this. Can you walk through your process, how you got started, the service you use to host, etc ? Would love to know more!

I try to post relevant content to a few niche subs. It's slow going atm but Rome wasn't built in a day. Right now it's just two obsessed fools posting in turn, in a few months or years, who knows? There might be three of us by then.

I sort by new and vote.

I'll upvote you!

Commenting.

Posting humorous comments to get people to laugh more.

Even better when I self depreciate myself to make someone smile.

You rock.

I posted some OC four days ago.

Thank you.

Posting content that is critical of right-wing and fascist ideology in a community that is full of conservatives.

They deserve truth.

I try to comment and vote as much as I can!

I'm running my own instance dormi.zone dedicated to a niche videogame (Warframe). Currently looking to upgrade it with automated weekly posts and a custom lemmy-ui theme.

Besides that, I've done a few small contributions to projects like lemmy-ui and the lemmy-explorer.

I try to post a picture of my cats every day or two. It's not much, but I get a fair amount of engagement on some of them. Aside from that I scroll daily and comment and upvote when something catches my eye. Haven't been back to Reddit since Apollo died so this is my only social media and I really want too see it grow.

I'm here, I read all the new posts everyday, I tried to find something to contribute. I try to be positive. I usually never use social media, I never contribute, I'm a lifetime lurker. But I think Lemmy is important.

It has not been easy, there is a bunch of unfriendly people here, there's some good people too. But the unfriendly ones have a lot to say

Thank you for being here.

Not getting banned so I can remain an active user

I mod a community (under another account). Also I’m trying to comment more.

The same as many others: sharing content I like, participating in comments more often, and generally being more active than I usually am. Also been trying to build a community at [email protected], but I don't know that it's going anywhere. Obviously most people will head to [email protected] because it was more popular on Reddit.

Trying to start an international community on a regional instance is an uphill battle, people will see the .ca domain and assume the community is focused on Canada.
- That's fair! I am guilty of thinking that when I see certain instance names but I hope we can shake that habbit. After all, having everyone make alt accounts and relying on more generic-sounding instances for all communities is a bad idea. Lemmy.world already has too many hosted there.

Lurking

The best, and that's okay

Using it.

I host and maintain Lemmy.wtf

Thank you

I helped with some Jerboa app development and translations. Other than that commenting, adding thoughtful discussion, posting, voting.

I moderate Foodporn and I also comment a lot on everything.

Thank you

Along with the occasional comment and vote, I talk about Lemmy with friends and encourage them to join, especially those still suffering with that other site that shall not be named.

Leaving an embarrassing amount of comments.

I try not to be one of the people making it worse.

You may not agree with everything I say and that's fine, but if you have an argument I'll hear you out, and I don't attack you personally for it, be nasty or start calling names. I don't have a side so I'm not saying stuff to get an applause from them.

I comment sometimes. Upvote a little more frequently. Just try to be active when I can.

You are neato

I've been working on the [email protected] extension :)

RES initially helped me get into Reddit, so hopefully this helps people get into Lemmy as well

Being the only one who posts original fan arts on [email protected]

I browse by new and all and attempt to comment on posts that don't have any comments

I also try to make posts with questions that are somewhat thought provoking. Like how would the Sims 3 handle only having a single Sim and lot in a world map.

Commenting, posting, and modding.

Getting it...

Comment
Be positive and friendly towards others
Don't get into pointless arguments
Comment some more
Add smiley face :)

About a fraction of a percent as much as the people giving us unsolicited porn.

So much unsolicited porn.

They do the Lord's work, they do.

You're not wrong

I'm using my sexual magnetism to draw new users in. The results, so far, have been... underwhelming.

Also I mod a few communities and am helping to save my home instance.

Sexual diamagnetic monopole!
- You cannae change the laws of sexual physics.
Hopefully you can reach whelming soon.
- I think that's illegal in most countries.

Everything

I helped get the "guess the episode" game going in a Simpsons related community. Wasn't all me by any means, but I decided to normalize the game a little and it stuck :)

ITT: https://i.imgur.com/rp1sQcf.gifv

I love it. I'm really glad to see Lemmy and more specifically Lemmy.World growing slowly but surely.

I've been posting content and comments more often than I had been doing on Reddit for the past 3 years. I think a lot of that, has to do with your posts and comments don't get auto-bombed because you're 'competing' with others. I've also noticed and appreciated that in nearly all of the communities I'm subbed to, there seem to be more genuine discussions happening than on Reddit's compatible communities. I rarely see the 'worthless' comments nowadays. Examples such as, "Your mom," "Like," "Same," "[insert edge lord comment]," etc. Which is wonderful!

And I think like a lot of us, being strong internet citizens, we want this to work out for the long haul..

qué será, será

I made a reddit repost bot at one point and run my own instances. Turns out nobody wants repost bots so I just post memes occasionally. And I've stopped posting on Reddit except trying to update super old tech support threads if I encounter and fix the issue.

Finding the top comment and writing “came here to say this”, like a good commenter should.

never

Doing our job, much obligated.

Running my own instance and commenting a lot

Go on.. how did you get started?
- I mean how else? I just started a virtual private server up (chose hetzner for this), secured it as best I can, setup cloudflare for it to proxy the IP for security through obscurity, and used the lemmy easy deploy script by ubergeek77 on GitHub; If you want a more detailed guide that will take more time