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Quality content is one thing. Engagement is another. I see lots of new posts that are good, but little to no comments. What we need is a few good communities with lots of engagement. On reddit I was more of a lurker, here I will start to do my best to comment more in the hopes it helps. (Still, my comments will probably be stupid and uninteresting, so it might do more harm than good, lol)

I think I've made more posts/comments in the last fortnight, than the last year on Reddit.

I've been posting interesting articles to nearly half a dozen communities each per day, even if nobody is responding.

I believe it's worth it to have this activity for those who pass by and see how many people showed up to the party before them.

I think a big part of this is making less of the content on Lemmy, be about Lemmy (and reddit).

How many casual users are going to join, see literally half of their front page being about either Lemmy or reddit, and then just leave?

Edit: Building on this - I just joined, and my homepage currently has 3 posts that aren't directly about either Lemmy or reddit.

Can confirm, migrated because they took away my Apollo! Now I’m using wefwef as my new Apollo

Hello, I just migrated from Reddit and am slowly figuring things out. I'm really enjoying Lemmy and the Fediverse so far!

Are there any communities I should subscribe to? If anyone has suggestions please list them out below, thanks!

I'm a RIF refugee, stuff my content hole ➡️😫

I really hope that the existing Lemmy instances can handle all the new users

Also don't join ban happy instances like beehaw.

I don't think I'm understanding. This Lemmy business has been a mess to navigate, I am up to six accounts on Lemmy for different versions. What I am trying to figure out, is why can I sort by 'Top', select 'All' which says it included other communities, but the selection of posts shown with those settings has been different for Kbin, VLemmy, LemmyNSFW, and lemmy.world? If I do this on kbin for example, almost every top post in all is from kbin, same goes for VLemmy, etc etc. Where the heck can I go, and sort by all, to see the top posts of ALL of these Lemmy instances?

Thank you for everyone's efforts to make the shift from Reddit as smooth as possible. I am normally a lurker/casual Redditor and will likely continue to be so in the Fediverse, but I want to say how much I greatly appreciate how welcoming people have been. I really hope the transition goes as smoothly for original users, and I will do my best to be as minimally invasive as possible.

I think it's good to encourage those who still have reddit accounts to migrate their content over here in anyway they can before deleting their account entirely. They may have content that they can post that would be beneficial to keep but starve that content from reddit.

It's the strongest weapon you can unleash against that cesspit of a platform. New content is being made here daily and it's amazing, but we have a way to go to compete with such a goliath content farm.

I for one propose more robust ways of finding communities. Maybe if communities adopted a policy of using keywords or hashtags so it can be easier to find all the places where specific topics are being discussed...? I don't know, I'm brand spanking new and trying to find my way; the first thing on my mind is: where am I, where is everything in reference to me, and how do I find out?

Okay, so I've been here for a few days and I'm getting increasingly confused. I used reddit exclusively on mobile and was hoping to do the same thing for lemmy. But it seems like every app has major features missing. I've already tried 4 different apps and every one is missing a feature I'd consider critical. Keeping two accounts separate, adjusting settings for two different accounts, commenting, replying, posting, subscribing, and searching for specific instances are all pretty important, but every app is missing one or more of these features.

Is there a quickstart guide anywhere to get more familiar with this? Does anyone know of an app that can do all of this? I've already tried jerboa, summit, connect, and liftoff

This and:

I am not sure how confident people are in a) switching from Reddit to Lemmy and b) hearing from it in the news or elsewhere, wanting to join the „fastest growing community“ and have no idea about Reddit so far.

It took me (coming from Reddit) about 2h to overview the alternatives, understand the fediverse structure and its jargon, decide between several instances, find and subscribe to similar communities (not only local ones) and finally write my first comment and post.

Look everybody I'm filling the fediverse with content my content is the best never been content this good before

I just saw a post about Avatar Ang getting pegged. What more do these people want?

Actually finding an instance with a working signup seems to be a huge issue.. this whole process is..who knows what instance they want?

I'll try my best to participate. I've always been more of a lurker on Reddit ( due to some social anxieties ) but I'll try my best to participate. I would love for Lemmy/Kbin to keep the momentum going.

Just signed up yesterday. I had my carefully curated feed from almost ten years and now just trying to find my feet. I've subscribed to 1 community (memes) but do feel kinda lost. I keep hearing about instances and what's allowed and what isn't in each. I'm not sure where to find the stuff I like.

Lemmy needs to come up with some kind of system to keep people from spamming posts. There's no reason scrolling by new should be half filled with 4 accounts spamming posts in the same community or even across multiple communities. Something like a set amount of time between posts or something idfk.

Edit: It also needs to let me view my profile without having to go back to the top of the feed

I am doing my best to avoid lurking. It’s tricky though, I am so used to only commenting on things like once a month. Exhausting work I tell ya.

I'm still massively confused on the setup. Just like Mastodon, this Lemmy thing pushes fragmentation and technology and I just cannot wrap my head around it.

I would love to have a site ala reddit. There, that is it. I am not super interested in the techniques behind Lemmy but I must because there are 'servers', 'communities', etc. You can join one server but you might not see (or be able to search) other servers or whatever. The fragmentation is related to this point, I am going to have to hunt for specific 'groups' or 'subreddits' if you will, and hope it is complete because maybe another group, on another server, will have other content related to your interrest. I cannot even begin about posting items myself because I am already lost on that one, no idea what server to post or how it will be able to be seen by users.

So I can describe what I would like, so that other can gauge if Lemmy can meet that need, but the fragmentation and technique tells me I am in the wrong place to have this experience.

What I would like: Frontpage with generic 'groups' or 'communities' and my subscribed 'groups' or 'communities', all on the front page/one page, that scrolls continuously without bothering me with 'techniques' (choosing servers for example). I can certainly appreciate the techniques behind Lemmy (or Mastodon) but in the end I want to create 1 account, pull in some 'subreddits' in my account and when I go to the front page, I get to see all the articles related to the 'groups' or 'subreddits'

In short: can I arrange Lemmy/Vlemmy in such a way that I get the same experience as I had on/with reddit?

I am looking for a replacement, not a challenge tbh. Again, fair play on the efforts of the devs but I want to keep my effort at a minimum on this one, I just consume and read news.

Well, it seems there is a bit of a learning curve. I, and most likely you, still haven't figured out the mechanics of Lemmy and the federverse. Give it time,

Just like Digg before Reddit, we will soon adept. The apps will get better and things will make more sense.

It may look and work slightly different, but with a little work, maybe this will be the communities that thrives the longest..

At least until the ads, bots, and CEOs begin infesting our home again. then I guess we just got to torch it and build a new home.

Now go unpack your favourite content. Lets make this place sing!

Welcome home.

New to Lemmy (I've deleted my reddit account today). Some questions for the experienced users (I'm still a little overwhelmed with how Lemmy works): Is enough to join one server? there are benefits/cons joining more than one? For each server I join I'll have a different user?