I see many communities that got started in the last ten days. Sadly, some that I’m most interested in are not that active. Some are not active at all.
What are you doing to help your community? How do you go from lurking to contributing? Spreading the word?
Also, what’s for breakfast?
I just joined yesterday. I’m still trying to process the change. Lots of stuff is buggy and weird, which is exciting. I just tried to post to an ADHD…sub? What are they called here? Anyway, when I tried to post I got a json error. I’m using Jerboa, I’ll try from a PC later.
For breakfast I’m having some cold brew coffee in almond milk. I’m doing intermittent fasting to get some control over my weight and to stave off the type II diabetes that tends to run in my family.
Diabetes is no fun. I applaud your efforts. I’ve considered intermittent fasting as well.
Yep. This place feels like the internet of 2004. It’s exciting to watch something grow from its toddler years to something more.
They’re called Magazines on Kbin and I believe Lemmy calls them communities.
This is a good start.
I’m trying to be more vocal than I have been in the past, specifically because if everyone lurks, there’s nothing to read. So even creating silly chat threads is a good start, to drive engagement.
I don’t proselytize, since everyone I know uses facebook, twitter etc. I’m the only one who views non-anonymous social media harmful on individual and community level.
Every time discussion turns to this subject, they all get this “here we go again, not listening” expression on their face. So, I’m not gonna go there anymore.
Breakfast was French tee, jogurt and mueslibar.
I know the pain. Trying to get people onto ANY new social media is like trying to pull teeth
Concentrate on just a few communities to comment and post. It’ll be too easy to spread yourself thin and feel overwhelmed. If you feel you’re very knowledgeable in a particular area then that community needs you now.
Yep. No time to be active in every community. We should focus on just a few each day.
Good points.
I just joined yesterday. I’ve always been more of a lurker, but trying to at least comment on stuff now to help get conversations rolling/more interaction. I think knowing that most of the communities are new and trying to gain traction, rather than being years old and just ghost towns gives a bit of hope.
Breakfast for me was leftover pizza
This is the way. Be the participation you want to see in the world.
Also, eggs, sausage, and grits.
Hmm. Love grits. It’s the perfect transport medium for all of the butter you put on them. 😀
…and salt! Do NOT forget the salt!
Left over pizza is good breakfast food. My favorite leftovers for breakfast have always been Chinese food though.
And welcome to the federated web. I’m new here myself. I find I’ve been more active than I ever was on reddit. It feels like more people have good intentions here than on the other platforms.
Ugh leftover Chinese is amazing.
I can definitely see myself being more active here. I also agree it feels like a lot more good intentions here. Obviously there are asshats everywhere, but hopefully that’ll be kept in check.
I feel like I’ve been glued to kbin since joining, and adding new posts and articles to the smaller communities I want to see active. With varying degrees of success. I was only a lurker on reddit so this is quite a lot of activity for me! Trying to embody the idea of ‘be the change you want to see’…
I don’t want to create magazines though as I don’t want to moderate and feel they would be better created by someone more dedicated.
Oh and breakfast was a sesame bagel!
Better start contributing yourself first :) We all flock to content and building a community takes time.
I started by posting into my favourite communities [email protected] and [email protected]. Starting to feel like it’s getting traction now. I’m sure many checked the communities out and didn’t stay because there was nothing to comment and no questions, and creating a post can be intimidating. Go for it!!
Breakfast: Air and water because I wake up too late to work every morning…
Hope you have an excellent lunch later. A rumbling tummy can be distracting.
I’m trying to contribute on the regular. One downside is the Jerboa app. It crashes when trying to add a community outside of it’s search bar. I’d have subscribed to more except for that. I might find more stuff to participate in if that were not the case.
Thanks! I did and agreed!
And glad to hear you are active, sad about jerboa crashes :( I use lemmy as a PWA and it has been great, but still looking forward to a stable app. Let’s hope development catches up!
That would imply that I have some sort of duty to participate. I do not.
I am doing what I would have done on reddit, comment, interact with people. I rarely made posts over there as well though. I do also tell people about lemmy and about the jerboa for lemmy mobile app
I’m definitely becoming a kbin shill to all my friends and I think they’re starting to get tired. I’m trying my best to leave comments on posts that I find interesting. Haven’t posted anything yet because I don’t have anything to post. I will post when I find something interesting enough (I do have a backlog of stupid memes on my camera roll?).
Breakfast was a granola bar. Slept in because it’s a holiday and I don’t have class. There’s a cinnamon roll I was planning on saving that I’m now eyeing.I swear if I mention kbin or the fediverse to my friends one more time they’re gonna disown me
Hmm. Cinnamon rolls. Yummy.
Yes. I’ve always believed that you teach best when you show how through your daily actions.
What am I doing? I’m letting it grow naturally instead of posting condescending low effort crap like this post
I have nothing interesting to post about. I’ll just upvote and comment here and there. If I find a community I like, I will engage more often.
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I’m impressed when people take on the role of mod. Good job! And good luck with it all. I’ll be checking it out.
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The third one, I’d be sure to include some ‘No NSFW’ rules before people start posting about procreation 😅
I would like to join your illustration community. But it links to the kbin app/style and I don’t know how to join on that page. I’ve tapped on everything left and right and I’ve still got no idea how to subscribe to anything.
I’m not posting. And I need to be. But I’m voting like a motherfucker.
Many hands make for a lighter load. When the time is right you’ll find what you want to post. Thanks for all of the updoots.
I‘m commenting as many things as I can think of and upvoting everything, but other than that I haven‘t contributed much. It‘s a work in progress.
