I’m really hoping the Lemmy community reaches its potential! But to achieve that, I realize it’s important to contribute to the content. As a chronic Reddit lurker, I’m going to do my best to comment and post to help this platform grow. It’s hard to break the habit of being a creepy voyeur after 10 years. Wish me luck!
Welcome the circus. I read an interesting post that said Reddit has the bulk of the users for this type of social media, but the users who add value and post etc. are the ones you need. The users Lemmy needs to attract are not the crowd that lurks. It’s the crowd that posts and adds value. That is a much smaller group of users.
Here’s something to consider: many of us were using reddit for several years. That’s years of exploring, building, and bonding with communities. So when you come to Lemmy, don’t expect that it will be a 100% replacement immediately. It takes time. Stick with it. Explore and post in different communities. Grow your usage gradually. You cannot reasonably expect to find everything you are looking for right away.
I lurked instead of commenting on Reddit because there was always that fear that the slightest poor word choice could result in the hounds being released. Secondary to that is often not having anything unique to add to a conversation. I have been trying to contribute more here.
A very interesting insight–thanks for helping me understand the lurker dynamic/psychology. I guess I’ve felt the fear: many times I’ve composed a post or comment–and then backed out for fear of having to deal with a shit show as a result. Being a solo mod might have some advantages in that way…
I’ll join you. I was a 95% lurker on Reddit. Hopefully I can do more here. I also want more people to know how much of an asshole Spez is.
I had a 16 year old Reddit account and maybe commented 10 times. I’m here to contribute!
hopefully lemmy keeps growing, id love something like this to become mainstream as i think it has more potential to do so than linux for example as thats a bigger commitment than a new social app that lots of people can adopt quickly once there are more/better mobile clients
Reddit user of 10 years here, last day of being able to use Boost over there, so just starting to figure this place out!
I bring glad tidings! Boost for Lemmy
I came from boost too. It’s going to suck when I Google something that leads to Reddit and I can’t “open in app” into boost.
Does this count as a post?
ill look it up for you
First post, thanks for having me 😀
Which iOS clients do you all use?
I believe the only iOS client right now is Mlem. It is in beta, which means you need to install it through TestFlight. I just did this and it’s actually really easy.
Go to Mlem on Github
Near the top you’ll see two buttons next to each other: “Download” and “TestFlight”
First tap TestFlight and download the app (assuming you don’t already have it).
Once that is installed, tap “Download” and the link should be opened in TestFlight.
Install and go.
