Hi all,
The lemmy.world instance has reportedly increased to over 1k users. I think it was like at just 200 2-3 days ago. That’s wild!
Anyway, I’ve noticed a few posts/comments by new users, mostly from the reddit exodus, hoping for increased engagement in lemmy communities. We can help this merely by posting and commenting. Lots of users are going to come over to glance and see if this is a good place for them. If they see little to no interaction, then many of them will leave. But if they see that communities are active, they will be more apt to stay and join. So, I suggest we all start posting and commenting. If your post/comment suck, then don’t worry. Users will downvote it lol. We just need to spark conversation. Let’s get to it!
Ok, I’m going to follow my own suggestion and start posting on /c/[email protected]. All neurotypes are welcome, so feel free to stop on by and join as you please 🙂
relevant meme: https://i.imgur.com/Prs9z3e.png
My issue is, the whole Fediverse (or whatever it’s called) concept is just hard for me to understand. But I’m also stupid.
Lol, it’s definitely a barrier to entry. I’m a professional tech dev, and I still had to spend a good deal of time researching to get a solid understanding of the nuances. The nice thing about fedi is that it doesn’t seem to matter TOO much which server/group you go with.
The way it was explained to me was its kinda like email, you dont need to have a yahoo email to email someone on yahoo, you just need to have any email. You can pick an instance that you like the UI of the best or whatever and then access whatever fediverse content you want.
The first step is self-acceptance lol <3
Well the way I’m thinking of it in terms of Lemmy, it’s like if a lot of “reddits” websites (instances) used basically the same source code, and had a protocol to interact with each other so you could sub to subreddits on other reddits and posts on other reddits showed up on r/all