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.
Original post by @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip
How dare you invite me to participate!
You cannot fault people for following rule 33.
90% of the Internet is made up of lurking.
I feel seen.
I feel attacked… i like to lurk. except now i’m not lurking, because i feel guilty for lurking. damit.
Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It’s the internet so that’s not always easy but I do think that’s one of the things holding us back.
Sometimes I feel like I talk too much. So I do limit myself.
But I was born a lurker :(
Don’t tell me how to live my life.
Reporting for duty
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’s like 5 people that are firehoses of content that are keeping lemmy alive.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t know how those people do it. Putting out stuff every day for one community keeps me as busy as I’d want to be.
After a while, it doesn’t even matter. It creates a sense of community, making this place nice for new people to join. So it’s good.
I see a lot of the same people, recognize the names. I argue with some, know I’ll agree with others. I like it. It harkens back to old forum days for me. Reddit may as well be anonymous1 talking to anonymous2, maybe outside of some more niche subs, but here, I can comment on a post about corn and recognize a few of the names who are also commenting.
I certainly can become a problem. Reaching back to Digg, MrBabyMan had way too much power and influence, even though he basically just spammed news articles 24/7. Thankfully, the threadiverse doesn’t seem to be designed to promote people over content.
I make it a point to post a few articles every day.
Not a firehose, but I’m doing my part.
I’m the dribble of drool from a baby’s mouth every so often.
Beehaw thinks I should post less though.
Never stop Sunshine
Beehaw still exists? Didn’t they want to leave Lemmy, like 2 years ago?
keep going
I would say it’s more 500 than 5
That would explain all the shitposts and memes. 😛
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.
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 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.
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 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’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
Nobody really cares what I have to say.
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.
That’s what I just did.
Gotta agree with /u/Spaniard here, they raised some really great points.
I’ve never been one to post much on any social media platform but on Lemmy I try to make it up by upvoting things I want to see on the platform and commenting to get discussions going.
I try, mostly through comments and votes.
Same. I am too lazy to write full posts. Sometimes I do but i like up/voting and writing short comments more.
