this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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Cool, I didn't know we could embed images in posts and they'd show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.
This is me not lurking
Watch me engage with someone
Watch me watch you engage with someone
This is all terribly engaging!
This is your friendly neighborhood deviant trying not to lurk
I'll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
I don't often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.
Here’s my kitty cat Kira
I like your puppy.
Me too!
that's not a puppy, he's too big
Made an account 22 hours ago, been lurking around here and there, finally decided to post my first comment after reading this post. I'd like to get more involved, just trying to find my footing first. Speaking of - what app(s) is everyone using? I'm on Android, and just logged into Jerboa. Decent UI, not a fan of the flashing screen during transitions. Any recommendations on other apps? Thanks.
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I won't lie, if you look at my Reddit profile you'll see that I've commented more here in the last couple of days than probably the last 3 years on Reddit. The community just feels more welcome and I feel as if my comment will get read instead of being drowned out as it happens on Reddit.
Yep, this is how i felt as well!
Same. Always kinda talked myself out of commenting on reddit because my comments would never be engaged with. Felt like I missed the boat there. Time to start over and build a new community.
Usually with Reddit you gotta be there early in a post to get interacted with. If it’s 5-6 hours since the post was made you’re only likely to get a few scattered upvotes.
It felt a bit off at first to not have the top comments all be the ones with the most votes, but I like how it works on lemmy after spending time here.
You can join an old thread and not feel like it's pointless to add to the discussion!
Either it doesn't get engaged with, or the people who engage with it have the reading comprehension of a carrot.
I noticed you didn't explicitly say in your post that you don't kick puppies, so let me assume that you believe that is acceptable and then vividly describe what a horrible person you are. Also,
Time to start over
...now that I've pulled a tiny portion of comment out of context to make it easier to attack, how dare you.
hol' up, comparing their reading comprehension to that of a carrot is an unfair insult to the average carrot.
and how exactly is the comparison? is it one carrot per person, or can a single carrot out-comprehend the whole lot?
Yes, communities where people discuss in good faith are so much more pleasant.
Yep, felt the same way on reddit. Sometimes, I started writing a comment but then halfway through I thought to myself "can I really muster the energy to engage with people who just skim through it or aggressively pick it apart and write an essay on how right they are with sources either taken out of their ass or taken out of context just to suit their viewpoints?". So I just ended up deleting it and go back to lurking.
My comment would either get overlooked or it was literally walking on eggshells. Make an innocuous remark that somehow gets taken out of context and say hello to the downvotes.
Was lurking on Reddit for 10 years, made just 9 comments that whole time; when there's so much noise you don't feel you have much to add to the conversation. But us lurkers have a chance to be heard in a growing community and help shape it in some way, gotta get out of my comfort zone I guess.
After 14 years on reddit I’m tired of watching it die, the death of Apollo is what pushed me over the edge, I loved Apollo. I’ve been browsing in here for the past few days. I like it. Trying to get used to it. Fuck reddit and u/spez all of the situation was trash. Thank you all for recommending this site!! I’m excited to be apart of it!
I try but I rarely post. I did seem to kinda revive the !beeandpuppycat@lemm.ee community so that's dope. I hope people keep posting there.
Feel free to promote it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world
Already did hehehe
Already did haha
Interesting, I see you did on the lemmy.ca and not LW. I'm not the biggest LW fan myself, but that community has a much wider range than the lemmy.ca one
Do we get any benefit from hosting our own Lemmy server? I am a tech nerd and love new IT projects. Sorry if this is off topic, please redirect me someplace else if there is a better thread to ask my question in.
The main benefit is being in total control of your experience on lemmy
If you're on someone else's server, you don't really have any control of federation, and your instance admins could just decide to defederate some instance that you enjoy seeing content from without your say. Similarly you may want to defederate from an instance, but on a public server you'd have to appeal to the admins to do so for the entire server.
Other than that it's mainly a "because it's cool" thing
Ok here's a meme that is unrelated to anything we're discussing but always cracks me up:
test post please don't ignore
Shush! let me lurk....oh no
Honestly, I feel more comfortable participating on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit or Twitter.
I think I've been more active on Lemmy in the past five days than I had been on reddit for the past 2 years.
Decentralization of social media is extremely enticing to me, and I really want this community to flourish, so I've been trying to make this into an active space.
I lurk most of the time because most of the time i have nothing to say
Much of the meme content is in the form of GIF and as fare as I see, Lemmy does not support uploading GIFs. Will this format be supported in the near future?
You can hyperlink to them, see my Rick and Morty gif a few comments above, i didnt upload that.
Yes, people who are leaving reddit are making Lemmy more active which was the only missing thing to make me delete reddit entirely. Before that it was too slow to get new content but now it is alright, thanx to reddit, long life to lemmy .