I know a lot of lurkers like me out there are browsing, but there’s quite a bit of engagement capitol on the federated instances. If you find an interesting topic and the right community, you get a lot of feedback. There’s not much hate being thrown out there either.
For any lurker out there: a lot of it is just mental. It can be a hurdle to get over the first few times, but once you start posting and getting responses it feels more like a conversation than a feed, and you can get more out of it.
I lurked exclusively on Reddit because there were too many people to be able to talk to anyone (there’s a Yogiism for you). It’s all just a series of comments there.
So give it a chance, see if you like it some more. There are plenty of nice, knowledgeable and talkative people here to meet.
You perfectly describe how it felt on Reddit to comment and what turned me into a lurker after the years went by. Doing my best to be more active on Lemmy to help get this thing growing!
Same thing for me. Felt a little more free!
So far, Lemmy has been an oasis in a desert of outrage bait, ‘ackshually’ jerks, and the shitty gamesmanship of other platforms. I really hope it lasts.
desert of outrage bait, ‘ackshually’ jerks
This is why I stopped engaging on Reddit.
I was covering my ass more there than at work. Everything needed a disclaimer.
Yes! It seemed like there was always someone trying to prove how wrong you are or how much more right they are no matter the topic. I’m trying to break myself out of the lurking habit and engage more here.
One of my controversial opinions is beloved TV presenter Stephen Fry has done more harm in last 20years than any other celebrity (including Trump).
QI approach of ‘but akshly’ klackson and in game punishing people for having interest in topic but not knowing fully lead to confrontational approach to knowledge that led to smug ‘but aksuly’ on one side and pushed those that like to get bits of trivia to share but may not have full knowledge towards the anti-intelectual, fuck experts approach.
Instead if people did the xckd 10000 people approach https://xkcd.com/1053/ and rather than making fun, build up others knowledge and excite them to learn, then maybe they wouldn’t turn their backs on knowing
I agree with your statement totally. But I’m now curious of the nature of your controversial opinion! I know who Stephen Fry is and have a general idea of his work. I’ve seen him in many movies and listened to a few of his shows on the BBC that’s it. But I can’t say I’ve followed him closely at all. How has he done harm? (genuine question promise, I’m definitely interested in knowing another side of him that I hadn’t considered or seen)
YSK it’s a lot. Alot is a fictional character created to illustrate this point.
Thanks Alot, for sharing this, it was a great fun read
What happened to his brother, Allot?
Hanging out with that guy Noone
Did this site get the Lemmy hug of death?
This inspired me to post on one of my favorite
subscommunities that made its way over to LemmyGot me good 😂
It seems to me that most posts/reposts on reddit are just for the fake internet points. But here on lemmy, people post just to keep the place active, & engage in some conversation.
They drown out the actual posts and we get a worst of both worlds issue :(
Follow me for Horse Facts
alot of engagement.
OP, you should know that a lot is two words.
Alot more people should of paid attention to there English lessons
This hurted so much
going back i see now why you were triggered.
The down the rabbit hole youtube channel is really great for mildly obscure interesting topics.
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This post goes together well with the RSS post from earlier.
How is maintaining a community compared to an instance? It would be neat to make one, but what keeps me from making one is having to moderate it or maintain it.
Super easy. I just made one for fun, (@worldwithoutus)
and there’s no one in it, so there are no moderation chores at all!I figure if enough people ever join it that it becomes hard, some of them would want to moderate with me anyway.
I never made anything at reddit, but it’s way less intimidating here in the fediverse.
You can always hand it off if it gets to be too much of a hassle and someone wants to take over.
alright, good to know.
Go for it man! I had never moderated over on Reddit but I wanted to contribute on Lemmy so I started up some communities. Everyone has behaved themselves so far and people have been pretty positive about things. Eventually it might get overwhelming (if Lemmy really takes off), but there’s always the option of adding more mods to help.
I just made one: !downtherabbithole@lemmy.world more than happy for moderators to join me! I’ll sort the sidebar etc tomorrow.
Joined, thanks!!
Nice
Just made one lol
YUP!!!
hard disagree and this assumption is further proof of that.
