If you want Lemmy to succeed, stop lurking and contribute with some content:
- Take inspiration from your saved Reddit posts
- Share a photo you took with your phone
- /c/microthoughts and /c/showerthoughts for random thoughts and observations
- Share interesting quotes, links, articles, videos, etc. that you saved (E.g: Youtube liked videos)
What else do you suggest?
Participate in discussions if you don’t feel yet like posting new stuff, even small comments help building up a community.
Agreed. One of the biggest value-adds for forums is the back and forths that bring in more ideas and information than just what was in the posted link.
I was never much of a posting or comment person on Reddit, but I am trying for Lemmy. I refuse to go back to Reddit and I hope I can contribute to these communities. Let’s do it folks!
That’s ok. I’ve shitposted hours a day for years. Reddit was a tapestry, and we’re slowly removing the best threads from Reddit’s tapestry and reweaving them here.
I posted maybe two dozen things, mostly text, and lurked maybe commenting 10 times a week, despite using bacon reader 16+hours a week. I’m trying to participate more by commenting. Maybe posting will become more of a thing if I find some relevant communities.
If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.
Upvote/downvote posts
Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)
Some more ideas:
- Cross-post content from Lemmy to Reddit: to get people from Reddit to Lemmy
- Cross-post content from Reddit to Lemmy: to get content in Lemmy
- /c/asklemmy is an easy way to add content. Answer a question or ask one.
- You can bring moderators from Reddit by handing them the sublemmies you created (in case you’re not interested in moderating)
I suggest that:
- if you are able to, help with development:
- look through open issues, give answers and advice
- participate in the feature request discussions
- maybe even make pull requests
- Help people who are confused about how things work
- explain that many current issues are not present by design but because project is still early in development
- Encourage other people to help develop Lemmy and help take care of newcomers
- promote Lemmy in other parts of the internet
- if you are able to, help with development:
Posting comments is also helpful.
This is absolutely correct! I’ve tried making a couple communities already, I’d suggest others do that too. Niche communities might not be too popular right now, but I think it’s a good idea to make them anyway, so when people come browsing here and see their favourite niche topic has a community already, they might make an account and post in it.
Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?
One of the things reddit has over its alternatives is the vast amount of content it already gathered over the years. Sharing that content here might give people more consideration to join. Also i get why people frown upon reposts, seeing the same over and over again. But there are always people who haven’t seen it. So under the right circumstances i encourage reposts, especially with useful posts.
It also feels different when there’s no karma to gain and it’s properly credited
