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Do your part, try not to lurk! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by bitsplease@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Ehm.. OK? Gosh, this is hard.

[–] Kaliax@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Totally agree, we need to build for the long term. Engagement has power.

[–] JMHershey125@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] velvetThunder@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Shush! let me lurk....oh no

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] paralyze5307@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I think this will all be short lived and sadly most everyone will go back to reddit

[–] ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

💪💪💪💪💪💪

[–] PR_freak@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Granny always used to say if you have nothing clever to say it's better to stay silent

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[–] operable0082@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

Always a bad sign when one of the top comments is trying to compel users to engage.

[–] danke@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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