This is a good start.

I’m trying to be more vocal than I have been in the past, specifically because if everyone lurks, there’s nothing to read. So even creating silly chat threads is a good start, to drive engagement.

I don't proselytize, since everyone I know uses facebook, twitter etc. I'm the only one who views non-anonymous social media harmful on individual and community level.

Every time discussion turns to this subject, they all get this "here we go again, not listening" expression on their face. So, I'm not gonna go there anymore.

Breakfast was French tee, jogurt and mueslibar.

Concentrate on just a few communities to comment and post. It'll be too easy to spread yourself thin and feel overwhelmed. If you feel you're very knowledgeable in a particular area then that community needs you now.

What am I doing? I'm letting it grow naturally instead of posting condescending low effort crap like this post

Better start contributing yourself first :) We all flock to content and building a community takes time.

I started by posting into my favourite communities !simpleliving@lemmy.ml and !minimalism@lemmy.world. Starting to feel like it's getting traction now. I'm sure many checked the communities out and didn't stay because there was nothing to comment and no questions, and creating a post can be intimidating. Go for it!!

Breakfast: Air and water because I wake up too late to work every morning...

I am doing what I would have done on reddit, comment, interact with people. I rarely made posts over there as well though. I do also tell people about lemmy and about the jerboa for lemmy mobile app

That would imply that I have some sort of duty to participate. I do not.

I feel like I've been glued to kbin since joining, and adding new posts and articles to the smaller communities I want to see active. With varying degrees of success. I was only a lurker on reddit so this is quite a lot of activity for me! Trying to embody the idea of 'be the change you want to see'...

I don't want to create magazines though as I don't want to moderate and feel they would be better created by someone more dedicated.

Oh and breakfast was a sesame bagel!

https://giphy.com/gifs/5L2okTiupVRxC

I messaged the owner of /m/cigars@kbin.social to see if they intended to be active and didn’t hear back, so I made /m/Tobacconist@kbin.social and have been posting anything relevant I could while I wait for other people that maybe care at all about that stuff.

Otherwise I’m trying to pick one sub to post to for each of my broader hobbies, and I respond regularly to whatever pops up in /all

No food yet just coffee - probably make an egg Sammy soon

I just joined yesterday. I've always been more of a lurker, but trying to at least comment on stuff now to help get conversations rolling/more interaction. I think knowing that most of the communities are new and trying to gain traction, rather than being years old and just ghost towns gives a bit of hope.

Breakfast for me was leftover pizza

I have nothing interesting to post about. I'll just upvote and comment here and there. If I find a community I like, I will engage more often.

I’m definitely becoming a kbin shill to all my friends and I think they’re starting to get tired. I’m trying my best to leave comments on posts that I find interesting. Haven’t posted anything yet because I don’t have anything to post. I will post when I find something interesting enough (I do have a backlog of stupid memes on my camera roll?).
Breakfast was a granola bar. Slept in because it’s a holiday and I don’t have class. There’s a cinnamon roll I was planning on saving that I’m now eyeing.

Trying to! This comment is testing federation stuff, so we'll see if you see this over on lemmy.one!

I've been consistently sorting by all+new and trying to comment on posts that relevant to me. It can be a bit difficult when it's just a link or image though.

And Raisin Bran

I‘m commenting as many things as I can think of and upvoting everything, but other than that I haven‘t contributed much. It‘s a work in progress.

I created my community (for fanfiction), after realizing I couldn't wait for someone else to do it. I don't usually have enough spoons to constantly post things. Interacted some, but not a whole lot on Reddit. I'm working with what energy I do have to make a good foundation.

Hopefully, one day, enough people will be around to interact I can go back to my comfortable amount of interaction. I just want to read people talking about their projects and what they are enjoying! It can't be too much to ask!

I’m not posting. And I need to be. But I’m voting like a motherfucker.

I created a lucid dreaming community: https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming
I've added a few threads, articles and videos. Hopefully that's at least something to start with.

I started a magazine on kbin.social for the anime I like but since the community stayed behind it's only me there. However, I still repost fanarts like I usually did on Reddit.

I just joined yesterday. I'm still trying to process the change. Lots of stuff is buggy and weird, which is exciting. I just tried to post to an ADHD...sub? What are they called here? Anyway, when I tried to post I got a json error. I'm using Jerboa, I'll try from a PC later.

For breakfast I'm having some cold brew coffee in almond milk. I'm doing intermittent fasting to get some control over my weight and to stave off the type II diabetes that tends to run in my family.

I'm making an app with a focus on streamlining pain points for user signups, and discouraging looking for centralized lists of the biggest groups by "crawling" the network for servers and communities based on what you see and who you interact with. I hope by making this easy, I can push smaller, more diverse communities in the fediverse

It's getting close. I'm almost at the point where I can switch over to my app from jerboa for daily use, and then I'll try to put out a beta

I had grits, I really need to go grocery shopping

I've been making discussion oriented posts on a lot of communities that have little to no content. It's been somewhat successful.

I made @Internetparents but it's still very quiet

I am an ex-reddit user and had to leave due to u/spez ruining the platform.

I've had a look on the different decentralized platforms we have in today's age, and stumbled upon kbin.
I really like it.

I've been told if i want to start a community, i would have to run it on my linux server. Is it relatively easy for others to join? I could easily run one if any of you have a suggestion, drop me some ideas.

Question:
These communities, are they working on all decentralized platforms? Like mastadon? Or is it for strict use on kbin?

Currently not doing enough to help. Real life has just been far too eventful lately and I haven't been online much haha. But I will try to convince people to subscribe to some of the sports communities my instance is hosting. Want to help grow it.

Besides that, just upvote as much as possible and comment as much as possible, and throw out posts for a community even if you think it's not that interesting. Just need to fill up the wall and show there's frequent activity and the people will come

Open invite for all musicians to head over to !songcovers on the reddthat.com instance and post their cover videos! I'd love to get that community going but only two posts so far!

My co-mod and myself are keeping the content flowing, interest in hunting for and engaging with the type of content we publish seems light right now unless you are on twitter. We'll keep it flowin and stealthy build in public.

@MyMulligan

What are you doing to help your community?

I've joined the new equivalents of the coule of major communities I was very active in, and have been trying to contribute to conversations instead of just lurking. I know when I joined it was a little disheartening to see so little activity/content. If newcomers are going to stay, there needs to be both!

How do you go from lurking to contributing?

That's a good question. I make it a point to comment on any post I find slightly interesting, and to try and make it a discussion-based comment, not one that just dead-ends immediately.

As far as as posting goes, I'm still working on that one. Reddit was a source of a lot of news and such for me, so I'm slowly getting new sources for that to share.

I think for a lot of people, it's easier to contribute here because the overall user base is so much smaller and it feels like you have a voice, whereas on Reddit even fairly prominent community members could still get drowned out on their community's subreddits by all the noise.

Spreading the word?

I've been talking to friends about my recent shift into the Fediverse and why it's a good concept and how my experience has been. They seem interested in the concept, but aren't bothered by Reddit's actions, so they probably won't jump ship. Not going to be pushy about it, just want people to know how cool the concept is, you know?

Also, what's for breakfast?

Just woke up, so I'm still deciding. Most likely eggs and toast!

I created and mod three magazines for topics I'm very interested in. I am also pretty much the only one who posts links/microblogs in them, but I figure if I keep it up enough, others will find the content and start contributing as well.

I am a conversationalist but not a prolific content poster.

I try to comment as much as possible on stuff I feel is interesting and I boost and upvote every thread I comment in.