In the monthly server updates for lemmy.zip/piefed.zip there’s a mantra that’s repeated every month. I think it’s wonderful and can be applied to the Fediverse as a whole.
If you’re new here - WELCOME! I hope you’re enjoying your time here :)
Just one small teeny-tiny request. The greatest gift you can give
the Fediverse(Original: Lemmy.zip and Piefed.zip) isn’t money, praise, or interpretive dance (although we would absolutely accept the last one). Its participation.Upvote the things you like. Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet or merely makes things wet. Make new communities if you don’t see one that fits your oddly specific niche obsession.
(We don’t judge. Well, we try not to judge anyway.)The fediverse naturally ebbs and flows, tides of people come and go. But if you’ve found yourself oddly attached to this strange little corner of the internet? Wonderful. Help it breathe. Help it grow. Help it be just a tiny bit weirder in the best possible way.
So if you’ve gone to the effort of clicking Sign Up and proving you’re not a robot (unless you are, in which case hello and welcome to our new AI overlords), then please, I beg of you:
Stick around. Add your voice. It really does make this place better.
There’s like 5 people that are firehoses of content that are keeping lemmy alive.
Beehaw thinks I should post less though.
Never stop Sunshine
keep going
Beehaw still exists? Didn’t they want to leave Lemmy, like 2 years ago?
They have an instance that doesnt federate with Lemmy.world i think. It works well for them. On my instance I see them sometimes since we federate with everyone.
How come?
They instanced banned me for 3 days for posting frequently outside their jurisdiction.
Kind of weird but suit themselves I guess
Don’t take it too personaly. In the absence of complex filtering tools instance and community admin have to improvise to keep with their wished éditorial ligne.
I make it a point to post a few articles every day.
Not a firehose, but I’m doing my part.
Well, 4 after FlyingSquid left.
What I’ve learned is that when you emigrate to the UK, you stop posting on lemmy!
He needs to get his Lemmy Loicence. I should have given him mine.
Didn’t even know that. Thank fuck he left
That would explain all the shitposts and memes. 😛
I would say it’s more 500 than 5
I genuinely worry about Picard Maneuver and Lady Butterfly. What of one of them got hit by a car!?
Picard Maneuver went and came back. I appreciate their work though, they’re one of the pillars.
I worry about Stamets.
I’m not a big fan of those absolute firehoses though. It would be impossible to read as much as they post, and therefore they can’t have much invested or interest in the subjects which is bad for discussion and reminds me of the reasons for disliking AI slop.
I’m the dribble of drool from a baby’s mouth every so often.
What if they’re bots and we’ve all been fooled?
Probably bots.
Nah ! They are at least 8.
Nice post, and thanks. I usually only comment and vote but have not created posts yet. That is my goal for 2026, to post at least one thing. I’m scared of the potential hateful insults I would get for posting something but I can be a dick sometimes, so I get it.
If you commit to making a post, I commit to being nice to you and not being a jerk.I try not to be like that in general and appreciate people’s willingness to contribute.
I’ve found that near every post I’ve made only has nice comments. Unless it is political lol, but thats par for the course. I believe in you!
Thanks!
Yeah, unless you’re making a discussion about human rights, or you have the most brain-dead opinion to ever disgrace this earth, people are pretty damn nice here
Start by posting a pic of a pet. You’ll get upvoted and will get over your fear. If people do downvote or complain, just let it roll off and try again.
It one downvote your pet, tell me. I’ll have a “chat” with them.
I fear only one thing. That I will be too bland/boring or what I deem in any way interesting won’t be. Or that it will be and I’d get overwhelmed with amount of comments and wouldn’t be able to reply to even third of them and would come off as a dick or a bot :< That and I am well aware I am not compatible with most of lemmy so yeah.
This is the main resistance I see. I thought I’d be boring in the beginning. I didn’t know much about the subject I began to post about. But from continuing to interact, I learned more about the subject, and I learned what the people I was talking to liked more or liked less.
If you’re just being yourself and talking about things you’re interested in, you’re gonna be fine. People here are pretty chill, so if you’re not spouting outright lies or antagonizing people, there isn’t anything to worry about.
I post a lot and don’t usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.
The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.
I never posted nor commented in reddit, here I try to overcome the social anxiety
Reporting for duty
I upvote a lot, but I don’t always comment as much as I should. I often find that I may or may not have anything particularly new to add to the comments.
Don’t worry about it, in places like Instagram and YouTube - even twitter and R*ddit - people are leaving comments like “bro said [thing previous commenter said]”
And that’s fine! Let’s be social and authentic and just happy that there aren’t bots pretending to be people here
Yeah honestly there’s no point adding meaningless chatter either. I like the comment sections here because it feels like people have let their words settle in their minds before they started mashing the keyboard.
Yeah honestly there’s no point adding meaningless chatter either
I like peas and mashed potatos.
What that random idiot said
I think I’m still a little concerned about account security especially in these scary US fascist times. Trying to take the safest course of action but I am still burnt over by reddit and its hard to wipe your accounts there too now…
I appreciate your concern for the quality of your contributions, and I think this place has a higher proportion of that type of user than just about any other platform.
This place is small and it’s generally friendly and inclusive. Most comments won’t get any replies, but the ones that do will generally be constructive. The users here are into the whole idea of the social contract and that we can have something nice if we are just excellent to one another.
I repeatedly say “generally” because this is an open platform and assholes are allowed to join. The assholes can even have their own instance dedicated to asshole topics! But fortunately the instances and communities are generally moderated by actual decent humans who are much like the users!
So let that knowledge help you comment more, not less! Even if you get no comments and like 5 upvotes, it actually feels like something of value even if it’s just a nod from a few decent people.
Edit: part of the conclusion was supposed to be that you can consider comments more like a discussion with people and not some strict message board.
Nobody’s kicked me off yet, you’ll be fine
1,800 comments and counting! One of them might even be valuable to the conversation.
Definitely a better ratio than me, that’s for sure.
There is not risk of messing up your algorithm. You should upvote almost anything you don’t want to downvote!
Nobody really cares what I have to say.
It’s the internet, if you have something worth saying say it, someone will find it useful in the future.
That’s what I just did.
Gotta agree with /u/Spaniard here, they raised some really great points.
I try, mostly through comments and votes.
Comments might actually be the most valuable thing right now, even moreso than posts
I sometimes post questions that get a few answers, but recently those people have been ignoring my follow up questions which is quite annoying, is engagement getting so low that people don’t care to reply anymore?
IDK, I feel like I usually get more replies here than on Reddit
Same. I am too lazy to write full posts. Sometimes I do but i like up/down voting and writing short comments more.
But I was born a lurker :(
My instinct is to lurk even in this thread…
Do you want to talk about it?
Not really. I physically don’t have the energy. Can’t speak for the person above, but most of the time, I just can’t interact here without having to take a break. Like. Lay down and close my eyes break. (I’m okay now, if you couldn’t tell.)
To others, I’m chronically ill, but not being able to interact here doesn’t make you less valid. Lurking is fine too. This post is a call to arms but if you can’t answer it don’t. Your health comes first.
Upvoting and downvoting is appreciated if you have the energy for that, but don’t feel pressured.
Don’t tell me how to live my life.
A’ight you won, gotta say something for today. But i hardly understand how people do manage to be social enough to post almost every day, like, they manage to make everything interesting.
It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online.
Anyways, it truly is a very nice place here, I agree with you, thanks to thoses amazing posters who never get out of inspiration. Thank you all.
“It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online.”
Just remember everybody is anonymous and the votes don’t really matter!
Also I can guarantee you that no one else will scrutinize what you say as much as you do. Mostly they will not even remember!
This is not a personal account, it’s one for a site I’m building. I know many won’t like that as it might come as spammy, corporate or whatever, but I have decided to use Lemmy as a place for discussion -in a related community- and Mastodon as the one for news and updates (together with old good RSS) and I have done it because I believe in a federated web.
I’m tired of walled gardens and billionaire-run feuds -and every web loading endless MBs of scripts from a dozen of third-parties (I mean, sometimes it can be justified, like on very complex sites… but not on a damn text blog, come on!)- or not working with my OS/browser of choice… and I want the Fediverse to keep growing and become not only a viable alternative but -and here I’m just daydreaming, I know- the default.
And to this point this post made me realize that it won’t happen on its own -not the way most people are, anyway- and that we/I need to put more effort on it. I’m culprit of just signing up and… well, waiting. And that won’t work. So thank you from bringing this matter to me, and I’ll try to do my part from now on, if not with this account with a personal one.
Sometimes I debate on making a comment, and sometimes I simply don’t have the energy to complete one. But sometimes, I think, “every comment grows Lemmy a little bit more” and decide, fuck it, I’ll say something. People might like it, people might not like it, but you never know what can grow from such a little spark.
I appreciate Lemmy in this regard. We live in a world with many voices trying to drown out each other for a bit of public attention. It’s enough to make some people think their own thoughts aren’t worthy and to stay silent, discounting their potential contributions. Having a platform that’s low-stakes, where people aren’t chasing internet fame, gives many of us an opportunity to express ourselves for the sake of expressing ourselves. Having this outlet is vital for many of us. I’m glad to be a part of this community, and it is truly a community. I have no idea if anyone recognizes me, but I definitely recognize other frequent commenters. It’s almost like we’re neighbors, not in physical proximity, but with a shared gathering space to meet and share our thoughts.
And I love that.
There are days where ei literally don’t even have time to read anything, let alone posting.
But I’m not a lurker.
And I appreciate your content, I still remember your hyprland setup tipping me over the edge to finally go down the window manager rabbit hole 😂
