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.
There’s like 5 people that are firehoses of content that are keeping lemmy alive.
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.
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.
Is it this post you’re referring to? NSFW
Yes, it is nice to see that if you post or comment on a community at least a personn will answer you. This is enough to convince the least lurkers of us, the first step for an active community.
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.
where do you even get the content from?
I get most of my stuff from Facebook. Since most of you refuse to go there, it really keeps my content fresh 😁
More seriously, since most of my stuff is from non-profits and photographers, it’s still the number one place these people share their stuff since it’s free, easy, and has a built in wide audience.
Other than that, I look for owls in the Google news page once a week, I look up old research papers or read books, I volunteered at a rehab clinic to learn more and get photos and stories, and I go to events and talk with people that work with owls.
I think the most important thing is that I’m genuinely interested in the subject, so even if social media vanished tomorrow, I would’ve stop doing anything I do to source content, I just wouldn’t be posting. I just post because I think you guys will like it and hopefully donate or volunteer yourselves.
Interesting. I find flooding Lemmy with 0-comment posts rather a disservice to it instead. I come here for the discussion, not for random links to articles.
Of course that’s not what the end state should be but while Lemmy is still growing it’s better to have something to work off than to wait around for good discussions to just appear.
Beehaw thinks I should post less though.
Never stop Sunshine
keep going
Beehaw still exists? Didn’t they want to leave Lemmy, like 2 years ago?
They have an instance that doesnt federate with Lemmy.world i think. It works well for them. On my instance I see them sometimes since we federate with everyone.
How come?
They instanced banned me for 3 days for posting frequently outside their jurisdiction.
Don’t take it too personaly. In the absence of complex filtering tools instance and community admin have to improvise to keep with their wished éditorial ligne.
Kind of weird but suit themselves I guess
I make it a point to post a few articles every day.
Not a firehose, but I’m doing my part.
What if they’re bots and we’ve all been fooled?
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.
Didn’t even know that. Thank fuck he left
That would explain all the shitposts and memes. 😛
I’m not a big fan of those absolute firehoses though. It would be impossible to read as much as they post, and therefore they can’t have much invested or interest in the subjects which is bad for discussion and reminds me of the reasons for disliking AI slop.
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.
I would say it’s more 500 than 5
Nah ! They are at least 8.
I’m the dribble of drool from a baby’s mouth every so often.
Probably bots.