With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it's scary. And so I'd like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.

I personally hate it when I'm stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you're reading this, the likely chance is you're the same.

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn't of enough substance to be worth anyone's time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won't have to visit walled gardens so often.

Thank you :)

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[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just wanted to pop in and say, I am so glad so many of you are taking this to heart! I am sitting here with a genuine smile on my face, which for reference NEVER happens. Thank you everyone!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Make a nice poster that encourages people to not just lurk, or dig one up if there's an old post. Post it weekly in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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[–] Oofnik@kbin.earth 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got you rosahaj! I'll try to be better this year!

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

glad to hear it Oofnik!

[–] Ekpu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Not using other social media annymore. Lemmy was my first introduction to the fediverse. Now I am also using Mastodon and experiment with a hubzilla hub on my homeserver.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On one hand yeah! But on the other, I'm not fully sure we want the Reddit chain of comments that add nothing to the conversation?

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You aren't entirely wrong, but I feel it could help build an appearance of high activity, which would help attract people. Also; many people wish to contribute but stifle the words before they can come out of their mouth, and I'm hoping a post like this could be the push they needed.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's a fair call, I think I'll push send more often from now on!

Honestly half the reason I don't post these days is more not wanting to feed LLMs/dox myself further, but that's a whole other can of worms

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[–] youngbullhowling@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I’ve started explaining this to non-techies. Hopefully starting to gain a little traction as the meta/ticktock machine becomes more and more egregious. Also this is speeding up the homelab I’m building.

I’d add the appropriate meme but I’m new here.

I’m doing my part .gif

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

100%! Been doing it for a year.

Also, I find a nice way to fill my feed is to liberally subscribe to communities on Lemmy. I'm currently subscribed to 133. I set my feed to Subscribed+Scaled and that works incredibly well to show me what I care about. Then when I get bored, I flip to All+TopDay to get what I missed that day.

[–] moodymellodrone@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

This is what I'm doing! Subscribe to anything and everything I might even have the smallest interest in

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[–] gi1242@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

is there a search function in Lemmy to search for posts? is it indexed and does it show up in search engine results?

if yes, that might help a lot with getting traffic

[–] rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

I know mastodon is an opt-in search model, but yeah, search results are reddit's biggest advantage

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[–] slym@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m in, lets this be my late new year resolution

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 6 points 2 days ago

press send on that post that you felt wasn't of enough substance to be worth anyone's time.

I feel like you vastly underestimate the amount of subpar shitposts I'm capable of composing (and then thinking better of) in a given day.

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