In the monthly server updates for lemmy.zip/piefed.zip there's a mantra that's repeated every month. I think it's wonderful and can be applied to the Fediverse as a whole.

If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)

Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give the Fediverse (Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.

Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet or merely makes things wet. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession.
(We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)

The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.

So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:

Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.

Original post by @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] eta@feddit.org 68 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah they're doing a huge service to the Fediverse. I've had a few times where I saw posts from the same people across totally different communities to the point where I'm wondering if they're actually interested in all these subjects or just posting for the sake of it.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

After a while, it doesn't even matter. It creates a sense of community, making this place nice for new people to join. So it's good.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, it is nice to see that if you post or comment on a community at least a personn will answer you. This is enough to convince the least lurkers of us, the first step for an active community.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I see a lot of the same people, recognize the names. I argue with some, know I'll agree with others. I like it. It harkens back to old forum days for me. Reddit may as well be anonymous1 talking to anonymous2, maybe outside of some more niche subs, but here, I can comment on a post about corn and recognize a few of the names who are also commenting.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I certainly can become a problem. Reaching back to Digg, MrBabyMan had way too much power and influence, even though he basically just spammed news articles 24/7. Thankfully, the threadiverse doesn't seem to be designed to promote people over content.

[–] Lemmar@lemmy.today -1 points 2 days ago

Is it this post you're referring to? NSFW

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. I find flooding Lemmy with 0-comment posts rather a disservice to it instead. I come here for the discussion, not for random links to articles.

[–] eta@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Of course that's not what the end state should be but while Lemmy is still growing it's better to have something to work off than to wait around for good discussions to just appear.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know how those people do it. Putting out stuff every day for one community keeps me as busy as I'd want to be.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

where do you even get the content from?

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

I get most of my stuff from Facebook. Since most of you refuse to go there, it really keeps my content fresh 😁

More seriously, since most of my stuff is from non-profits and photographers, it's still the number one place these people share their stuff since it's free, easy, and has a built in wide audience.

Other than that, I look for owls in the Google news page once a week, I look up old research papers or read books, I volunteered at a rehab clinic to learn more and get photos and stories, and I go to events and talk with people that work with owls.

I think the most important thing is that I'm genuinely interested in the subject, so even if social media vanished tomorrow, I would've stop doing anything I do to source content, I just wouldn't be posting. I just post because I think you guys will like it and hopefully donate or volunteer yourselves.