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.
I've posted 240 times to barely any discussion.
This post is a lie.
YSKs are about self-improvement on how to do things.
Do rabbitholes belong here? I'm a full on spelunker of them, but I fail to see how they align with this community as it's geared towards tips and tricks.
Rabbitholes, to me at least, are those bits of mental lint that don't really serve a purpose other than to expand your knowledge base. Their depths can vary, but are typically very complex (deep) in nature. Like the fall of the Ottoman Empire or some shit like that. Does it influence your day to day functioning? no. Is it interesting? yes.
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.
It’s only been a few days, perhaps a week, of me being here, but I have to admit to loving the very high signal to noise ratio. I have some learning to do about how to make communities or whatever the equivalent of subreddits are, or search to see if the place I’m thinking of might already exist, but I’ll figure it out. Let’s hope we keep growing around here.
YSK it's a lot. Alot is a fictional character created to illustrate this point.
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.
alot of engagement.
This inspired me to post on one of my favorite subs communities that made its way over to Lemmy
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OP, you should know that a lot is two words.
Not necessarily. I post all the time here and Kbin. Zero engagement.
The down the rabbit hole youtube channel is really great for mildly obscure interesting topics.
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.
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