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?

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Participate in discussions if you don’t feel yet like posting new stuff, even small comments help building up a community.

    • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Wonder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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!

    • Tired8281@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • zephyr@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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)
  • HulkSmashBurgers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.

    Upvote/downvote posts

    Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)

  • Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Whoops I already deleted my old Reddit posts. LOL But I have more than enough cat pictures for the other communities. :)

  • cod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • CaldeiraG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m actually just scrolling here to reply to some posts here as I was used to being a lurker in Reddit. More content, more engagement, more fun!

  • rowdy_p@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Your right right I was on reddit for eight years, and never commented once. This seems like a good reason to start.

  • LeHorror@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Just started on Lemmy. I love how new things pop up but is there a way to not have things show up but not necessarily resort to blocking the community. Star Wars memes for my example.

  • Pooptimist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Genuine question: I’ve always used reddit as a source for information regarding work, hobbies and recommendations. Will I be able to type in ${topic} lemmy and get links to some real information in a lemmy “subreddit” regarding a topic without having to browse a top ten list of some fuck face?