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

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    6 小时前

    A’ight you won, gotta say something for today. But i hardly understand how people do manage to be social enough to post almost every day, like, they manage to make everything interesting.

    It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online.

    Anyways, it truly is a very nice place here, I agree with you, thanks to thoses amazing posters who never get out of inspiration. Thank you all.

    • Sarah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 小时前

      “It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online.”

      Just remember everybody is anonymous and the votes don’t really matter!

      Also I can guarantee you that no one else will scrutinize what you say as much as you do. Mostly they will not even remember!

  • GEEXiES@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 天前

    This is not a personal account, it’s one for a site I’m building. I know many won’t like that as it might come as spammy, corporate or whatever, but I have decided to use Lemmy as a place for discussion -in a related community- and Mastodon as the one for news and updates (together with old good RSS) and I have done it because I believe in a federated web.

    I’m tired of walled gardens and billionaire-run feuds -and every web loading endless MBs of scripts from a dozen of third-parties (I mean, sometimes it can be justified, like on very complex sites… but not on a damn text blog, come on!)- or not working with my OS/browser of choice… and I want the Fediverse to keep growing and become not only a viable alternative but -and here I’m just daydreaming, I know- the default.

    And to this point this post made me realize that it won’t happen on its own -not the way most people are, anyway- and that we/I need to put more effort on it. I’m culprit of just signing up and… well, waiting. And that won’t work. So thank you from bringing this matter to me, and I’ll try to do my part from now on, if not with this account with a personal one.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1503·
    2 天前

    There’s like 5 people that are firehoses of content that are keeping lemmy alive.

  • fakir@piefed.socialEnglish
    61·
    2 天前

    I’d like to suggest removing timestamps on all comments, like you could still toggle a button to see the timestamp of a comment if you wanted to, but the timestamp shown on default doesn’t serve any purpose other than tell the users how fresh or how stale the conversation is. When the conversation is say only a few hours old, many users will choose not to engage because we assume the conversation is over and there isn’t any point in engaging further, so we skip altogether and move on. I can tell from my own experience I’ve done this more than a few times, I’m sure others have as well. When you only have a few thousand users across the world, unlike Reddit, we must preserve the freshness of the few conversations we do have so as to increase engagement from all.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      3·
      2 天前

      This is an interesting idea, or maybe we just need people to be more willing to comment in old posts. Reddit is actively hostile to old posts, but they should work fine in Lemmy/PieFed since we have sort options like Active and New Comments. On old forums people used to continue talking in old posts forever, we could do that here no problem, the software supports it.

    • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      2 天前

      You are on PieFed, so you can always use a bit of custom css to make them go away. Pop this snippet into the custom css field of your user settings:

      .comment_time {
    display: none;
}
    • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      2 天前

      On the other side I don’t want to engage in discussions that are over. The Threadiverse is organized in a wayz where new content is favored in your feed. Of course there are discussions that stretch over a couple of days, but after, they die. And I think this is just the way it works, it is not meant to show all posts ever made in an equal way.

      • Microw@piefed.zipEnglish
        6·
        2 天前

        With the “active” sort, I regularly get posts on top of my feed that were originally made days or weeks ago, but still have discussions going on in the comments. I dont think thats a negative thing at all.

      • fakir@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 天前

        Right, they are not meant to show posts in equal manner - freshness & hotness do matter in engagement and are indeed shown higher compared to other posts and comments. But still, a few posts from last night might have only a couple of comments, but since it’s already a few hours old, we don’t reply or engage with it. We judge engagement by these timestamps and so removing timestamps will lift engagement on all posts & comments.

        • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 天前

          I guess this also has to do with user amount in general. The more users are active in the Threadiverse, the more users would engage with these posts.

  • airbornestar@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    16 小时前

    This post seems to work well, given that it has remained in the active tab for days now with the sheer people commenting on it.

    • Spraynard Kruger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      15 小时前

      Water is wet. When it gets on things, it makes them wet until the water is gone. When the water is gone, the wetness is gone. The water was the wetness.

      🌎🧑‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

    • asciimage@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 小时前

      A singular water molecule is not wet, but add any more and now each molecule has water sticking to it so it’s wet

    • Applesause@mander.xyzEnglish
      3·
      15 小时前

      Wetness is an illusion. An artificial category imposed on what we call reality by our minds. Which are also illusory. Everything is an illusion. It’s all as meaningful and purposeful as the patterns dust makes in a whirlwind. That’s all we are- dust in the wind. Everything is dust in the wind.

    • j4cobgarby@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      15 小时前

      It’s without a doubt wet, right? Even if one claims it just makes other things wet, then surely it makes itself wet too?

  • Really@piefed.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 小时前

    I tend to forget I actually have an account even though I follow my subscribed page. I have been only reading the internet for too many years.

  • VinnyDaCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    17 小时前

    I upvote a lot, but I don’t always comment as much as I should. I often find that I may or may not have anything particularly new to add to the comments.

    • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
      5·
      16 小时前

      Yeah honestly there’s no point adding meaningless chatter either. I like the comment sections here because it feels like people have let their words settle in their minds before they started mashing the keyboard.

    • Sizing2673@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      15 小时前

      I think I’m still a little concerned about account security especially in these scary US fascist times. Trying to take the safest course of action but I am still burnt over by reddit and its hard to wipe your accounts there too now…

    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      17 小时前

      Don’t worry about it, in places like Instagram and YouTube - even twitter and R*ddit - people are leaving comments like “bro said [thing previous commenter said]”

      And that’s fine! Let’s be social and authentic and just happy that there aren’t bots pretending to be people here

    • Zink@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      15 小时前

      I appreciate your concern for the quality of your contributions, and I think this place has a higher proportion of that type of user than just about any other platform.

      This place is small and it’s generally friendly and inclusive. Most comments won’t get any replies, but the ones that do will generally be constructive. The users here are into the whole idea of the social contract and that we can have something nice if we are just excellent to one another.

      I repeatedly say “generally” because this is an open platform and assholes are allowed to join. The assholes can even have their own instance dedicated to asshole topics! But fortunately the instances and communities are generally moderated by actual decent humans who are much like the users!

      So let that knowledge help you comment more, not less! Even if you get no comments and like 5 upvotes, it actually feels like something of value even if it’s just a nod from a few decent people.

      Edit: part of the conclusion was supposed to be that you can consider comments more like a discussion with people and not some strict message board.