We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join

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    Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

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      So you were going to remove this extremely important message for Lemmy growth only because you think it is targeted towards Lemmy users? It is targeted toward lemmy.world and Lemmy users thats why I putted it there, the message is more important than just being wrong community. The message is important. It is the second most upvoted post for a reason

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      Instead of locking every post and giving very bad impresion to new users can you just do a read before post and delete the NEW content that is unrelated? Everyone would apreciate that

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    I don’t lurk just to lurk, I just have nothing to say most of the time. Still waiting on the niche reddit communities I was a part of to make it here, if they ever do.

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    Full-time lurker here, I’m trying, but going from content consumption to content sharing is a weird mindset change.

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      Try starting small. Reply more. Little things like that. Everything helps. Remember that we are interested in what you have in your life that you would like to tell us about.

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        Remember that we are interested in what you have in your life

        This really hits. Cool to be a part of a small community like this:)

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      The barrier to entry is way lower in a community this size. You don’t have to have the most witty thing to say or the hottest meme to share. Your comments and posts will probably be seen by more people than in the “viral or bust” of a bigger site. It’s a totally different kind of usage and definitely makes me feel more engaged

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    I think we stand a chance of bringing over the best parts of reddit while leaving behind all the negative aspects, I think a lot of people who lurked before (myself included, <4000 karma after 10 years) will be much more willing to engage here.

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    Was a total lurker in reddit. No accounts, nothing. Just browsing the subreddits.

    But I joined lemmy just to help the cause. And put up a good fight.

    Yeah. I’m seeing myself using it more and more.

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      How dare you talked? Do you have no manners? /s

      I didn’t comment/post that much on reddit either, it’s tough.

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        Same here. I’d often type out a comment just to delete it with the assumption that I’ll get downvoted or that it’ll start a comment chain of arguing.

        It’s been nice to see other’s perspectives on this.

        So far the culture on Lemmy has been so much more positive. Maybe this is just a side effect of eager early adopters using the platform.

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          Definitely. All we have is us here and we play a very risky game. If people get hurt they will leave or lurk which is what we DON’T want. So yeah, hopefully there won’t be much issue here for a while.

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          What I learned over the years on Reddit is do not engage the assholes. If they comment and it’s hateful or they’re being a jerk in a reply just don’t reply back and if they just won’t quit the block option is your friend.

          Also to only sub to mostly positive communities. Places like idiotsincars end up with more argument/pedantic comment chains. Not worth it.

          You control what you see.

          I had almost a universally positive experience once I figured that out.

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      I’m the same. It’s good exposure therapy though. There are also plenty of nice people that will respond to your comments.

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      The barrier to entry is way lower in a community this size. You don’t have to have the most witty thing to say or the hottest meme to share, and you have much less of a chance of getting hive-mind downvoted, its just about engaging where you can and realize that people appreciate you adding to the discussion

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    I’m not interested in maintaining a community (I don’t have the time to be a moderator), but I have been trying to comment as much as I can. Also, if you think you have something to post about, just make a post.

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    I have been trying to upping my game from Liking to Commenting. Still didn’t have Idea to post though, lol…

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      I lurked reddit for years before I made my first comment. Some of the larger subreddits still feel so hostile I rarely posted on them. Enjoying the feel of this place though.

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      I don’t even know how to post yet. Is the URL field the community or Instance? I assume it’s the community because all posts would go into whatever instance you’re on…

      I wish they had a drop down of at least the communities your subscribed to.

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    More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!

    I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was “look how much better we are than reddit”.

    Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.

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    That’s what I’ve been trying to do myself. I’m really not an interactive kind of person on these online communities. I’m almost always a lurker, but I’m really trying to push myself to be more active, because I want an open-source and federated Reddit alternative (and ActivityPub in general) to succeed!

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    I’m a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?

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    i would post but for now i don’t have anything to post. I was more of a commenter on reddit anyway