If you want Lemmy to succeed, stop lurking and contribute with some content:

  • Take inspiration from your saved Reddit posts
  • Share a photo you took with your phone
  • /c/microthoughts and /c/showerthoughts for random thoughts and observations
  • Share interesting quotes, links, articles, videos, etc. that you saved (E.g: Youtube liked videos)

What else do you suggest?

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Participate in discussions if you don’t feel yet like posting new stuff, even small comments help building up a community.

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Agreed. One of the biggest value-adds for forums is the back and forths that bring in more ideas and information than just what was in the posted link.

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This is absolutely correct! I’ve tried making a couple communities already, I’d suggest others do that too. Niche communities might not be too popular right now, but I think it’s a good idea to make them anyway, so when people come browsing here and see their favourite niche topic has a community already, they might make an account and post in it.

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If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.

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Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)

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Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?

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We’re gonna need NSFW content to make this baby successful.

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Should we just start reposting stuff from Reddit, too? Or is that frowned upon?

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I’ve started taking some of the better content from r/nootropics and posting it in a new sub and crediting the user. Years of great info that will be stuck in Reddit if not brought over.

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One of the things reddit has over its alternatives is the vast amount of content it already gathered over the years. Sharing that content here might give people more consideration to join. Also i get why people frown upon reposts, seeing the same over and over again. But there are always people who haven’t seen it. So under the right circumstances i encourage reposts, especially with useful posts.

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It also feels different when there’s no karma to gain and it’s properly credited

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