Cool, I didn't know we could embed images in posts and they'd show up inline. I wonder how long that will last, haha.
good to know!
I'll post my puppy everyone likes puppies.
I don't often have anything to add, but here is my buddy.
Here’s my kitty cat Kira
that's not a puppy, he's too big
I like your puppy.
Me too!
This is me not lurking
This is your friendly neighborhood deviant trying not to lurk
Don't tell me what to do, I'll engage when I'm ready >:(
hol up
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Using the jeroboa app rn and it's fairly intuitive.
Alright... this marks the end of my lurking lifestyle then, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Definitely. Everyone on Lemmy at this time seems very reasonable as well and I am finding that the discussion is typically of a much higher quality than on Reddit, so for those who don't usually engage, try it, it's definitely worth a shot here.
Reddit conversations have always been either “Google en passant” or something worthwhile, or the third one where it’s just an agreement. Can’t say I am not guilty of doing all of them.
Me not lurking
I lurk most of the time because most of the time i have nothing to say
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.
Replying from the Mlem app!
Solid app so far, can’t wait to see future updates.
Testing cross-instance posting from my own
Trying my best! I have an account on lemmy.ml but with the increase in traffic I’m barely able to use it! Moving to this one which has already helped. Anyone reading this feel free to send a message and say hi!
I wonder if it wouldn't be wise to try and emulate some of the easier/more participatable subreddits here. Askreddit theads for instance are a big pull (even if they tend to be. well, redditors post on them use your imagination).
I think there already is an asklemmy on lemmy.ml
There is no engagement algorithm; it's us :)
test comment please ignore
Hey people of the internet. So if I’m going to not lurk, and if I have a really weird sense of humour and am downright unfunny to most of my friends, where is my community here?
Yarp.
I got a reply!
Totally agree, we need to build for the long term. Engagement has power.
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.
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.
Always a bad sign when one of the top comments is trying to compel users to engage.
I saw Lemmy has already grown a lot over the weekend and I'm all for it getting bigger! To be honest I also feel a lot more motivated to actually post here instead of lurk.
And the community seems super nice so far!
You're right, I'll try. I enjoy reading, but often get overwhelmed with trying to respond, so I end up just giving up and not finishing my
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.
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
Ok here's a meme that is unrelated to anything we're discussing but always cracks me up:
Interesting comment here, please upvote
test post please don't ignore
Shush! let me lurk....oh no
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