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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    That, and please stop talking about reddit so much, dear god. My feed is filled with reddit news, rather than the respective topics of each community I’m subscribed to.

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      I couldn’t agree more. I understand a lot of us moved here from reddit, myself included, but I think we have to stop talking about it so much.

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    I’ve been participating a lot more here because it feels like my contributions have more impact than they did on Reddit.

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      I created a community based on one of my hobbies to end my lurking habit: https://lemmy.world/c/backcountry

      For now, I am just posting about one photo a day from my collection with some text that tries to drive interaction. There are 15 people in the community so I am hoping things start expanding at some point. All it costs me is a few minutes a day to choose and post a photo.

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        I was excited for a backcountry sub but I see it’s just for winter skiing and snowboarding. That name is kind of confusing. I was hoping it was for backcountry camping and hiking like on Reddit.

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          Which sub were you thinking about specifically out of curiosity?

          I created it to replace the /r/backcountry subreddit which was also skiing and snowborading. Perhaps it makes sense to broaden the scope a bit since the lemmy community is small. I could reasonably moderate hiking and camping stuff as well.

          I will make a post over there asking people what they are interested in.

          edit:https://lemmy.world/post/135425

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            Oh, Maybe I was thinking more of r/wildernessbackpacking, r/campingandhiking, or r/hikingcanada type subs. When I say I’m going to the backcountry I mean hiking and camping, but I also don’t live near mountains so it’s probably more regional to me. Maybe that’s why I never subscribed to r/backcountry, it’s just been so long since I joined a bunch of subs I can’t remember. I think it would be good to have a separate summer vs winter community.

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              I think it would be good to have a separate summer vs winter community.

              Possibly, I don’t really know. My other thought is that the back country skiing subreddit was always kinda small and with the smaller number of people on Lemmy, its probably even smaller.

              Its hard to get communities going initially so if broadening the topic helps, I’m for it.

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          Nice! I am glad I’m not the only person trying this strategy. I do need to admit I am completely unfamiliar with the wold of gemstones. Do you just go out and look for the initial stones?

          (Btw I think you have a typo in your link? https://lemmy.world/c/faceting )

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            Argh! Thanks, fixed the link.

            I generally buy the rough from dealers or gem shows. My bucket list has a couple of line items to visit some mines and buy direct.

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              Ah that would make sense that they need to be mined. Still, that is a cool hobby I have never heard of before! You should make a post explaining the full process. Perhaps I will make a post explaining back country skiing as well for those who have never heard of it.

              (edit: subscribed! You got me interested)

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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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            I was having the same problem, but if you refresh the page it should stay blue :)

            This also works if your comments aren’t appearing.

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      Be the change you want to see! In one week I’ve made more comments on here than the last two years on Reddit. If the communities you want don’t exist, start them up and post the type of content you’d like to see.

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    I was mostly a lurker at reddit, but I’ll definitely try to be more active here, especially in this early phase of migrating away from reddit

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    My content is pretty shit, but I’ll glady support and comment on you more interesting folks’ stuff!

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    But. . . my content is terrible. . . It’s like stale chips. You’ll eat them if you have to but you won’t enjoy it.

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      I though the same and I got in the third post in the front, just try it, dont understimate your content