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Do your part, try not to lurk! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by bitsplease@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] Ahmed@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

One thing that might keep people off is how communities are created/duplicated on Lemmy. I mean you can have the exact same community but on different instances. Then you start asking yourself which one should I join? or perhaps both? This definitely will confuse people.

[–] Oteron@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I absolutely agree. I also don't get how can you reply from entirely different apps.

[–] fuser@quex.cc 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It might help to think about Mastodon, Lemmy and other fediverse portals as different email programs, like gmail, outlook, thunderbird. They all use the same protocol (mail) to communicate info. ActivityPub is the underlying protocol that makes the fediverse work but conceptually your instances are like mail servers some run Lemmy, some run Mastodon, but they all talk the same language under the hood.

[–] RestfulD34m0N@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can understand this, but im looking at this post from my instance (lemmyNSFW) and it has 16 score and 89 comments. But on lemmy.ml this same post has 1.28k score and 662 comments.

Why is that so different? If they are like different email programs, shouldnt the email chains be the same no matter which program you use?

[–] flyingtiger188@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I suspect it only reports the activity from that instance. Definitely feels like there is some room for improvement.

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