Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement

So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit

    • a1studmuffin@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • pain_is_life_is_pain@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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

  • Joshua Hershey@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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

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    1 year ago

    Yes, people who are leaving reddit are making Lemmy more active which was the only missing thing to make me delete reddit entirely. Before that it was too slow to get new content but now it is alright, thanx to reddit, long life to lemmy .