Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

Reporting for duty

Nah ! They are at least 8.

Yeah they're doing a huge service to the Fediverse. I've had a few times where I saw posts from the same people across totally different communities to the point where I'm wondering if they're actually interested in all these subjects or just posting for the sake of it.

Beehaw thinks I should post less though.

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.

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!?

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.

Comments might actually be the most valuable thing right now, even moreso than posts

Same. I am too lazy to write full posts. Sometimes I do but i like up/down voting and writing short comments more.

Do you want to talk about it?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

"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!

can confirm, this user has 0 posts and 1 comment

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 😂

There is not risk of messing up your algorithm. You should upvote almost anything you don't want to downvote!

I find it hard to keep a conversation going, maybe lack of skill on my part but usually idk what to reply and hit a dead end. So most of the time I just upvote in appreciation for taking the time to respond.

I feel seen.

The amount of upvotes you get on your posts says something different

It's the internet, if you have something worth saying say it, someone will find it useful in the future.

Keyboard issues?

Same, too busy upvoting and moving on as usual...

I started posting by picking the communuty for the place i live and trying to post local and independent media and special interest groups articles about/in the context of that place.

Its benefits are,

• It creates activity on the fediverse that is unique, and the more interesting for it.
• You'll be promoting the voices of those less often heard.
• You can also help local and independent media with readers and exposure. Its seen as more of an offline problem of media concentration, but i think theres online solutions for the surviving publications.

If you look through my history you'll see my posts to c/Perth/WesternAustralia there are ebbs and flows in interest but the key point is when something happens, say a protest, or a pub banning some nazis the community is there ready for the users, active and established.

If you go to the sidebar of that community, and all the communities i moderate i have gathered in each a host of resources for people to refer to for articles and information in regards each of those communities. It also helps me to have easy access to those publishers as i look for something i find interesting.

So i don't know what city or State you live in, but if theres a place based server, or a generalist server that hosts a community for it, i'd start posting there. If it looks abandoned maybe jump onto that servers c/meta and request to become the moderator. That'll give you the ability to change things like the sidebar and participate in managing misbehaviour if/when users post things off topic/against the rules for the community.

See you in fediverse ;)

Edit: oh, also posting is a piece of active fun, instead of waiting passivley for something to entertain you. So its fun in a different way to scrolling feeds, or commenting.

Sorting by scaled is pretty nice because its like active but with community size so its not only shitposts, memes and news (still a lot but its still a larger veriety)

You don't have to start your own community (lemmy's subreddit) if you feel it is too niche. Find or start a broder one where your niche content will fit. That way, your content has a home and more lemming will be attracted to it.

If you want to start your own community, you can only do it on your home instance: reddthat.com

The sorting combination of 'Local' and 'Active' also can make for a quiet impression

Definitely a better ratio than me, that's for sure.

Why not do it meow?

Can you not recreate that same community on a different instance with the rules that you want?

What is R-World?

It doesn't work well if it is not in the post itself. Here a community where you are free to test it as much as you want !testfediverse@jlai.lu

Yes we do, prove me wrong!

I don't know about this one specifically 😅 but people probably have the need for these debates anyway, so it's just better to express them (*on the Fediveree*)! 😁

It's like, how in some movies and shows people have "meaningless" discussions in a bar about random trivia etc; if people don't behave in a toxic way, it's just a way to connect and share ideas!

And in some (most?) cases, the discussion might be more important than the result of it, since you see in practice more about how people can approach this type of curiosity about a subject, which might apply to many other topics we think about every day 😁

More importantly though, where am I supposed to go to debate if water is wet, if not to the Fediverse? 😄

i've always found mastodon unintuitive, mostly because older versions used to not have a "local" feed, only a global feed,

and i think a charm of the fediverse is to have local instances, like for specific topics. and they added that local feed recently, which i like

better on the can than on the can't

Watch out for pinkeye!

Wetness is an illusion. An artificial category imposed on what we call reality by our minds. Which are also illusory. Everything is an illusion. It's all as meaningful and purposeful as the patterns dust makes in a whirlwind. That's all we are- dust in the wind. Everything is dust in the wind.

Water is wet. When it gets on things, it makes them wet until the water is gone. When the water is gone, the wetness is gone. The water was the wetness.

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

A singular water molecule is not wet, but add any more and now each molecule has water sticking to it so it's wet

It makes itself (the molecules) wet I guess...so it is wet uwu

It's without a doubt wet, right? Even if one claims it just makes other things wet, then surely it makes itself wet too?

I had an idea, but solarpunk covers most of what I want to do.

I think on the whole, we do a little better at this than other platforms. Does depend on the subject, but I see more positive, respectful interactions here than I do elsewhere.

Always a good reminder though!

No, but I am. Your lunch break ended five minutes ago. Get back to memeing. Chop chop!

Gotcha!

Looks like you've got a good community going there. Not sure i have much to contribute, but we do have some crossover with the associated communities.

Maybe you find something for https://lemmy.world/c/Dullsters@dullsters.net :p (i forgot how to properly link communities...)

You are on PieFed, so you can always use a bit of custom css to make them go away. Pop this snippet into the custom css field of your user settings:

.comment_time {
    display: none;
}

On the other side I don't want to engage in discussions that are over. The Threadiverse is organized in a wayz where new content is favored in your feed. Of course there are discussions that stretch over a couple of days, but after, they die. And I think this is just the way it works, it is not meant to show all posts ever made in an equal way.

This is an interesting idea, or maybe we just need people to be more willing to comment in old posts. Reddit is actively hostile to old posts, but they should work fine in Lemmy/PieFed since we have sort options like Active and New Comments. On old forums people used to continue talking in old posts forever, we could do that here no problem, the software supports it.

Been great, Thanks!

Bruh, who starts a conversation like that? I just sat down, Sarah.

They might be more common than you think!

Lemmy/PieFed isn't all US and EU. People from all kinds of places can be found here.

Find your community.

I am sure you like stuff that people from EU and US like.

Because the fediverse is still fairly small, downvotes stick out a lot more. A number of them I think, "How could anybody downvote that?" and just wonder because often they seem to be "I had a shitty day and I particularly don't like YOU" downvotes.

I often sort a thread by Top, and even the highest voted posts are often +(big number) -1. Because I personally do not downvote without cause, I assume they are sincere, but then it becomes a question of why, and I could never figure it out. Okay, whatever, no biggie.

But recently I had some time on my hands and I am aware of lemvotes.org, so one day I saw this again and decided to just informally start looking up these weird ass loner downvotes. Nothing sustained, just whenever one stuck out to me as being why??? I'd go and look it up. I've been doing this for roughly 2-3 months now, no schedule or commitment other than whenever I felt like it, across the board, no attention paid to community or post content (other than anything political pretty much not being worth the trouble, lol).

What I expected was a variety of usernames attached to these single downvotes.

But what I saw was a core handful of users across the board, with the occasional outlier.

Kinda pathetic, honestly.