Not just Lemmy as a Reddit alternative, but I've fallen in love with the Fediverse in general. It's kind of how I always imagined social media to be like, though it still has a ways to go and has been held back because "mainstream" platforms have monopolized users and power. I definitely want to be more active here.

I can't seem to post an image in a comment, does anyone else get the same?

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

I wanted to post the starship troopers "I'm doing my part" meme

EDIT: I think it's my local instance.

I’m doing my part! After killing my 11 year old Reddit account

Reddit refugee here! Hope to see Lemmy, Mastodon and the Fediverse become super popular down the line!

Another lurker here. Been well over a decade and this is the first time I feel like contributing again. Really hope the fediverse catches on this time.

but i don't have anything to say

other than fuck spez of course

Reporting for duty!

I’ve always lurked on Reddit but I’ll try my best to comment more

I've just created !board_games@lemmy.ca and !tabletop_rpgs@lemmy.ca, does that count? :P

I couldn’t agree more!

In effort to try to add value to posting, I found a mobile app for iPhone. It’s clearly in beta. I’m not associated with them at all, and I hope they don’t mind me posting the results of my Brave search.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

I have no idea what I'm doing

I'll try my best 😅

Hello everyone. This is literally the first thing I'm clicking on after registering

Will do

Long time no see, Lemmy. I hope Reddit ending is for the best, and I hope all my precious communities migrate to open source software.

This is probably the first-ever post to surpass 1,000 upvotes.

I'll try my best not to be such a lurker. A fresh start on here might be what I need to get me out of my comfort zone.

I've always been a lurker on the other site but I think I'll be much more active on here!

wildly hits keys on the keyboard

Bro literally triggered lurkers

I'm a little confused on how to find more communities to join. I'm on the feddit.nl instance, and I know I can subscribe to communities on any instance, but there isn't really a search button or anything like that, at least not on the Jerboa app. Is there, like, a user guide on how this shit works?

More than that, spread the word around. Help people register. If Reddit users don't know that lemmy exists no one will use it. We have to get more people AWARE.

Does posting and replying from another server count as "not lurking"?

I signed up... checks notes... 3 years ago?! I don't even remember why! But I haven't posted much or at all since then. Now that Lemmy is gaining traction and is becoming more active, I'm trying to contribute to it as much as I can. So far, I've tried to comment at least once a day.

I already blocked access to reddit on my network, so lurking is not an option for me ;)

I prefer to type my response then delete it without submitting.

I remember reddit in 08 and it was better, less toxicity

well this felt like a personal callout but i will try a little to do this, and to be active as a user rather than a lurker

Trying hard! What I'd need is a browser extension (Firefox) that just sends me to the fediverse as soon as I type "old.reddit.com" into the address bar to kill some time. Old habits die hard.

I joined Lemmy today. I've been getting into Mastodon recently as well and I have to say the comfy feeling I'm getting from the governance resiliency of FOSS and federated spaces(FFOSS?) is wonderful. This has the same feeling as when I first tried GNU/Linux so many years ago. :D

Already been posting and commenting more than I ever did in countless years on Reddit!

I think on Reddit there was so many voices I hardly felt it was worth posting or commenting. Someone else would have already posted my thoughts and done it much more eloquently than I would have.

Here every little act of engagement helps, so I’m just jumping right in to posting & commenting without second guessing myself.

I'm stepping out of my comfort zone and trying to set up a game thread for the NHL Stanley Cup Finals game tomorrow. Please come join and discuss if you're interested!

Me not lurking

Yeah I keep telling myself to comment. It really doesn't come naturally to me after years of lurking.

Testing cross-instance posting from my own