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Do your part, try not to lurk! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by bitsplease@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn't the thing that makes a social media site, it's the engagement

So even if you're used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they're more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they'll just go back to reddit

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[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No doubt there won't be as many users on Lemmy in a week as there are today, but you don't need (and probably don't want) every reddit user to migrate over to Lemmy. Long as we have our own community over here, who cares if there are still folks on Reddit?

You saw similar things with Twitter and Mastadon - is Mastadon still as popular as when Elon first took over? Hell no, but it is still a great community with plenty of content. And with Tumblr joining the fediverse, and Meta's new Twitter clone as well, the fediverse is growing all the time.

Also worth remembering that when the Digg -> Reddit migration happened, people said the same thing you (and many others) are saying now. Social Media has gotten a lot harder to kill in the last decade, but it is possible to piss your users off to the point where they're willing to leave