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submitted 1 year ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

If you want Lemmy to succeed, stop lurking and contribute with some content:

  • Take inspiration from your saved Reddit posts
  • Share a photo you took with your phone
  • /c/microthoughts and /c/showerthoughts for random thoughts and observations
  • Share interesting quotes, links, articles, videos, etc. that you saved (E.g: Youtube liked videos)

What else do you suggest?

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[-] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Participate in discussions if you don't feel yet like posting new stuff, even small comments help building up a community.

[-] Wonder@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I was never much of a posting or comment person on Reddit, but I am trying for Lemmy. I refuse to go back to Reddit and I hope I can contribute to these communities. Let's do it folks!

[-] Tired8281@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's ok. I've shitposted hours a day for years. Reddit was a tapestry, and we're slowly removing the best threads from Reddit's tapestry and reweaving them here.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I posted maybe two dozen things, mostly text, and lurked maybe commenting 10 times a week, despite using bacon reader 16+hours a week. I'm trying to participate more by commenting. Maybe posting will become more of a thing if I find some relevant communities.

[-] rowdy_p@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Your right right I was on reddit for eight years, and never commented once. This seems like a good reason to start.

[-] StarLuigi 2 points 1 year ago

What subs would we post photos on?

[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like there's Photography@lemmy.ml, Photography@lemmy.world, TravelPhotography@lemmy.world, and Photos@lemmy.world.

This probably isn't exhaustive, but it's a start!

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.

Upvote/downvote posts

Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Some more ideas:

  • Cross-post content from Lemmy to Reddit: to get people from Reddit to Lemmy
  • Cross-post content from Reddit to Lemmy: to get content in Lemmy
  • /c/asklemmy is an easy way to add content. Answer a question or ask one.
  • You can bring moderators from Reddit by handing them the sublemmies you created (in case you're not interested in moderating)
[-] Wander@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Posting comments is also helpful.

[-] LeHorror@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just started on Lemmy. I love how new things pop up but is there a way to not have things show up but not necessarily resort to blocking the community. Star Wars memes for my example.

[-] Falmarri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This will be fixed in the 0.18 release

[-] cod@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is absolutely correct! I’ve tried making a couple communities already, I’d suggest others do that too. Niche communities might not be too popular right now, but I think it’s a good idea to make them anyway, so when people come browsing here and see their favourite niche topic has a community already, they might make an account and post in it.

[-] CaldeiraG@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm actually just scrolling here to reply to some posts here as I was used to being a lurker in Reddit. More content, more engagement, more fun!

[-] InisSieferI@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?

[-] dexchemist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've started taking some of the better content from r/nootropics and posting it in a new sub and crediting the user. Years of great info that will be stuck in Reddit if not brought over.

[-] Patariki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the things reddit has over its alternatives is the vast amount of content it already gathered over the years. Sharing that content here might give people more consideration to join. Also i get why people frown upon reposts, seeing the same over and over again. But there are always people who haven't seen it. So under the right circumstances i encourage reposts, especially with useful posts.

[-] MBM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It also feels different when there's no karma to gain and it's properly credited

[-] SoPunny@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Are there any judgement/advice type communities?

Those were also popular and were often sent around creating buzz about Reddit. And memes, jokes, funny etc.

[-] Shayreelz@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah. AITA is one of my favorite subreddits, so it would be nice to have a similar community here

[-] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like there's a few of these! Good tool to search for these across Lemmy is Lemmyverse btw. I don't know if there's similar for Kbinstances yet.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/amitheasshole
https://lemmy.ml/c/aita
https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/c/amitheasshole

[-] SoPunny@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Ohhh, this is great stuff thanks!

[-] SoPunny@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I did just now find https://lemmy.world/c/aita if that helps anyone?

[-] InisSieferI@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?

[-] Umpquastrangler@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

We're gonna need NSFW content to make this baby successful.

this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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