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.
Looking at your posts, it seems like you’re really into ecology/farming/wildlife. I think Lemmy is currently seeing the biggest growth with its tech and tech-adjacent communities. Whether it’s because it’s a little more complex to use or because that’s just the demographic that knows about it more, I can’t say for sure.
It reminds me of the earlier days of Reddit (which I didn’t even participate in), when it was almost solely a programming/tech community. As it grew in users, so did the variety of communities. I think Lemmy is going to be similar.
I applaud you for building up the communities you’re a part of. I hope that you can look back in a few years and realize that you sowed the seeds for something that grew much bigger.
Dont I know it. I was being facetious with the comment because I know what these places are like having moved from specific niche forums, watching reddit expand (avoiding Facebook), and then here. I’m also an early adopter to Tildes but decided to not even attempt in there because of the “tech bro (tech person)” problems you’ve illustrated.
Mander and Slrpnk are good instances and busy enough.
I do find it funny seeing these memes about creating content from someone with 6 posts, there’s been a few of them now.
If I was any where else, it would be there. Maybe one day, won’t rule it out.
Using local on aussie.zone gets me Australian news so I dont need to subscribe to Aus communities which is a bonus. My subscribed just stays my interests so Local and Home are critical to my browsing.
That is really nice, im glad i saw your commect tho – the aussie instance seems like a great place & i subbed to a few communities there :) slowly but surely the niche subs will het active lol
Try yelling fire, using the word “alot”, or threatening a puppy? I’ve looked at your posts and while they are intellectually stimulating, there’s a degree of knowing your audience involved. I would wager many people on here are people in drool mode after a rough patch at work.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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!
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