Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement
So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!
If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit
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.
good to know!
I’ll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
I don’t often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.
unlurks
I like your puppy.
Me too!
that’s not a puppy, he’s too big
This is me not lurking
Watch me engage with someone
Watch me watch you engage with someone
This is all terribly engaging!
Definitely. Everyone on Lemmy at this time seems very reasonable as well and I am finding that the discussion is typically of a much higher quality than on Reddit, so for those who don’t usually engage, try it, it’s definitely worth a shot here.
Don’t tell me what to do, I’ll engage when I’m ready >:(
hol up
Using the jeroboa app rn and it’s fairly intuitive.
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Alright… this marks the end of my lurking lifestyle then, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if it wouldn’t be wise to try and emulate some of the easier/more participatable subreddits here. Askreddit theads for instance are a big pull (even if they tend to be. well, redditors post on them use your imagination).
Shush! let me lurk…oh no
test comment please ignore
Always a bad sign when one of the top comments is trying to compel users to engage.
Ok here’s a meme that is unrelated to anything we’re discussing but always cracks me up:
Testing cross-instance posting from my own
How’d you find the setup process for self hosting? I’ve got half a mind to do the same. I’ve already got self hosted Audiobook Shelf and home assistant servers
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