uh i guess i'll post a minecraft build somewhere on lemmy tomorrow if i remember to
Contribtions to the fediverse are unwelcome in most popular spaces.
Unless you are just upvoting things.
If you are new you will be heavily scrutinized, and if the community owners don't love you instantly then your account goes in the "bot pile"
Makes it hard to want to participate when most relevant posts you make get removed and the mods ban you because they decide they don't like being embarrased when they're shitty.
Not my experience
The sheer lack of ability to read tone on Lemmy baffles me, and any time someone tries to bring it up you get these "that hasn't happened to me" and "maybe you're an ass" ahh comments. It really snubs any effort to talk about the problem.
I see a new post.
I click, I read, I scroll on.
I am the lurker.
#haiku (<- test to see how far this propagates in the mastodon / microblogging part of the fediverse)
All decent advice. Here's a thought experiment.
Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about [etc]
By the same token it would be bad to stop such a discussion, right? Right.
Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits
Therefore it would be bad to *destroy" such communities, right? Indeed.
Upvote the things you like
So, it would be bad to downvote the things you - personally, subjectively - don't like - right? It wouldn't? Why so?
Don't downvote other people's good-faith opinions. It's petty, it's juvenile, it's toxic. Even if you don't see it that way. It's precisely what will discourage the participation we all want to see.
I've never been one to post much on any social media platform but on Lemmy I try to make it up by upvoting things I want to see on the platform and commenting to get discussions going.
1,800 comments and counting! One of them might even be valuable to the conversation.
But I was born a lurker :(
I'd like to suggest removing timestamps on all comments, like you could still toggle a button to see the timestamp of a comment if you wanted to, but the timestamp shown on default doesn't serve any purpose other than tell the users how fresh or how stale the conversation is. When the conversation is say only a few hours old, many users will choose not to engage because we assume the conversation is over and there isn't any point in engaging further, so we skip altogether and move on. I can tell from my own experience I've done this more than a few times, I'm sure others have as well. When you only have a few thousand users across the world, unlike Reddit, we must preserve the freshness of the few conversations we do have so as to increase engagement from all.
This is an interesting idea, or maybe we just need people to be more willing to comment in old posts. Reddit is actively hostile to old posts, but they should work fine in Lemmy/PieFed since we have sort options like Active and New Comments. On old forums people used to continue talking in old posts forever, we could do that here no problem, the software supports it.
I enjoy Lemmy because I tend to get a response. Despite the higher pop at Reddit, I often go ignored. It’s not unusual to have a back and forth chat with another commenter in a given thread here.
I find it hard to keep a conversation going, maybe lack of skill on my part but usually idk what to reply and hit a dead end. So most of the time I just upvote in appreciation for taking the time to respond.
Conversations either continue or they don’t. You shouldn’t be hard on yourself. If someone says something that makes you want to say or ask something else, great. If not, that’s fine too.
This is not a personal account, it's one for a site I'm building. I know many won't like that as it might come as spammy, corporate or whatever, but I have decided to use Lemmy as a place for discussion -in a related community- and Mastodon as the one for news and updates (together with old good RSS) and I have done it because I believe in a federated web.
I'm tired of walled gardens and billionaire-run feuds -and every web loading endless MBs of scripts from a dozen of third-parties (I mean, sometimes it can be justified, like on very complex sites... but not on a damn text blog, come on!)- or not working with my OS/browser of choice... and I want the Fediverse to keep growing and become not only a viable alternative but -and here I'm just daydreaming, I know- the default.
And to this point this post made me realize that it won't happen on its own -not the way most people are, anyway- and that we/I need to put more effort on it. I'm culprit of just signing up and... well, waiting. And that won't work. So thank you from bringing this matter to me, and I'll try to do my part from now on, if not with this account with a personal one.
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