We can make this a great interesting place and more people will join

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    Hey! I’m keeping this as it’s targeted at new users from Reddit. However, in future please find another community to post this on, because it is not related to the lemmy.world instance specifically.

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      So you were going to remove this extremely important message for Lemmy growth only because you think it is targeted towards Lemmy users? It is targeted toward lemmy.world and Lemmy users thats why I putted it there, the message is more important than just being wrong community. The message is important. It is the second most upvoted post for a reason

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      Instead of locking every post and giving very bad impresion to new users can you just do a read before post and delete the NEW content that is unrelated? Everyone would apreciate that

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    That, and please stop talking about reddit so much, dear god. My feed is filled with reddit news, rather than the respective topics of each community I’m subscribed to.

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      I couldn’t agree more. I understand a lot of us moved here from reddit, myself included, but I think we have to stop talking about it so much.

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    More importantly, talk about stuff besides Reddit!

    I tried using Voat 6(?) years ago when there was a similar (but smaller-scale) protest. The fact that a lot of Voat users were those chased out of hate subs was part of the problem, but the other part of the problem was that half the content was “look how much better we are than reddit”.

    Discussion about reddit is fine (it is still a big site), but we need our own content too.

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      I forgot all about voat.

      I’m hopeful that large scale subs going dark will help us. That and being forced off of 3rd party apps.

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        It’s almost as if making a site dedicated to people too racist, sexist, antisocial, etc, for even Reddit’s lax moderation policies, was a bad idea.

        And that’s before it became a central hub for literal treason.

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    First comment on Lemmy, I’ll try my best not to lurk! Really hoping to see this thrive.

    I always mostly lurked on Reddit for years from fear of being judged, I struggle with anxiety and feel like I won’t contribute anything.

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      So far people have been much nicer here. And besides, who cares if someone judges you or feels like you didn’t contribute anything, that’s their problem not yours!

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      Absolutely this!

      I constantly feel as if my opinion is too worthless (or even plain wrong) to leave comments literally anywhere. And while it is great to know that I’m definitely not alone and there are people who feel this way, it is very sad and unfortunate that we even have to worry about it.

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        First comment!

        I have always felt exactly the same way. I almost never posted or commented on Reddit for the same reason, constantly worried about negative or aggressive responses. Didn’t have to spoons to always spend ages typing and re-typing a comment to make sure it came across exactly as I wanted it to and add something of as much value as possible x___x

        I like the philosophy of beehaw and hope that it will help me start getting over this mental blocker. :)

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      Another lurker here, but somehow it feels like it has been a lot easier to post on here compared to reddit. Hopefully Lemmy continues to have good discussion without devolving too much into reddit meme comment chains and the like.

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      I feel you.

      I am currently also just on reddit for lurking or searching things like “best maple-sirup which could be bought in germany”.

      However, if my wife can move from france to germany because of our relationship, I can move from reddit to lemmy.

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      I created a community based on one of my hobbies to end my lurking habit: https://lemmy.world/c/backcountry

      For now, I am just posting about one photo a day from my collection with some text that tries to drive interaction. There are 15 people in the community so I am hoping things start expanding at some point. All it costs me is a few minutes a day to choose and post a photo.

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          Nice! I am glad I’m not the only person trying this strategy. I do need to admit I am completely unfamiliar with the wold of gemstones. Do you just go out and look for the initial stones?

          (Btw I think you have a typo in your link? https://lemmy.world/c/faceting )

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            Argh! Thanks, fixed the link.

            I generally buy the rough from dealers or gem shows. My bucket list has a couple of line items to visit some mines and buy direct.

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              Ah that would make sense that they need to be mined. Still, that is a cool hobby I have never heard of before! You should make a post explaining the full process. Perhaps I will make a post explaining back country skiing as well for those who have never heard of it.

              (edit: subscribed! You got me interested)

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    I don’t lurk just to lurk, I just have nothing to say most of the time. Still waiting on the niche reddit communities I was a part of to make it here, if they ever do.

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            I was having the same problem, but if you refresh the page it should stay blue :)

            This also works if your comments aren’t appearing.

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      Be the change you want to see! In one week I’ve made more comments on here than the last two years on Reddit. If the communities you want don’t exist, start them up and post the type of content you’d like to see.

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    Also…DON’T MAKE TOO MANY COMMUNITIES!!! I know we all have our favorite niche subreddits that we’ll miss, but we need to reach a critical mass with a core set…and then organically break out communities into more niche communities.

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    Well i had an account just to lurk on reddit, but like anything else in life things eventually come to an end. I don’t know what kind of content can be easily imported here. Years ago, i would post about a variety of things, but recently the content that i see is much less varied than it was, so posting has become less interesting. Guess searching stuff on google earth is just as fun as it was than instead. It’s interesting to see all this activity without gpt-fied comments tho

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      Same, I was mostly a lurker. I just joined Lemmy to check out the alternatives while the blackout proceeds. I’m curious - in which subreddits did you see most of the gpt comments coming up or was it mostly an all-around thing? I didn’t think I saw too many in my feed. Still, it might also be because feeds I like such as r/crochet don’t really need to gpt-ify most of their comments. I’d assume that would more be in AITA or those types of reddits that lend themselves to spinning fictional yarns.

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        Big ones. Such clean academic answers left instantly to casual comments, that was weird. I was in smaller subs and never a problem, expecially the pixel dungeon ones and the roguelkes in general. Plant id and similar subs were good too, but i did not depend on those alone, there’s so many resources for that.

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    My content is pretty shit, but I’ll glady support and comment on you more interesting folks’ stuff!

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    I’m a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?

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    I’ve been participating a lot more here because it feels like my contributions have more impact than they did on Reddit.