As a lurker I agree

I see a bunch of "community squatting" - people creating communities but not contributing, hoping it'll take off.

As good etiquette, I'd suggest that if you create a community, try to post something yourself!

I was mostly a lurker at reddit, but I'll definitely try to be more active here, especially in this early phase of migrating away from reddit

Good point, I started a ukulele community a few hours ago but I've no real idea how to publicize it or add more people.

Posting to unlurk myself. It's... haaard to kick the habit.

I’ve been participating a lot more here because it feels like my contributions have more impact than they did on Reddit.

It's a good mentality to have.

I kept looking for communities and not finding them, so I started making them. Then adding posts to those communities, and to my surprise people do come and upvote and comment.

Alright, I usually lurk, but I started off here by creating a community of my favorite game.

hello, just moved here from reddit

looking good so far!

I’m at least trying to comment more on posts. Breaking the lurker habit is hard.

I've been tryna make c/football pretty active by posting transfer news haha, used to just read what other people sent instead of going to Twitter myself but now...

Hello everyone! I must say that it's a bit confusing and all, especially finding new communities. But it seems like it has lots of opportunity!

This comment is my first contribution to the platform. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing yet, but I'll figure it out.

My worry is that I only started a year or so ago on that other platform, and most of my contributions are comments and some photos when I can get my garbage podunk internet to let me upload the latest smoked meat or garden haul. I don't think I'm a "laying the groundwork" type of user, honestly. If there are any guides or walkthrough on navigating instances and whatnot, I'm all eyes.

I already reeeeeally miss a couple wonderful communities. But I want the best versions of them here, if at all. I'd love to help expand this place.

I guess there could be worse first comments for an account.

ETA: spelling is hard.

Ok, buddy. I'll test cross-commenting here, if you don't mind.

E: nice

While I only lurked on reddit, looking forward to a fresh start without all the bots. Planning to start contributing and focus more on hobbies than doomscrolling and nonsense

We need accessibility first, honestly the site is kinda confusing and acts weirdly on mobile and the official app is the same, both of these two need to use simple design, the android app is focusing on material you theme but most of the people here I believe the want usability rather than asthetic, I know it's free and hard work that I'm criticising, but we simple users need to build and make the communities better while the developers working on the site and the accessibilities, together we will break the chain of proprietary.

First I need to understand how all this works. fedia, lemmy, mastadon, fediverse, etc. I don't really understand what it all is and how it works. Suggestions from one user to another from a different "place" don't translate. Someone told me to look at /all. Like, where is that? I don't see anything like that. It's all a confusing, jumbled mess. It's melting my brain and I don't know if I can stick around. I don't see any kind of notifications either, so if someone responds to me, I probably won't see it unless I remember where I posted and to go manually check.

Hello everyone! I must say that it's a bit confusing and all, especially finding new communities. But it seems like it has lots of opportunity!

Currently I'm in the explore phase where I look left and right and find where I should put myself in, but yes of course after this phase end, I will try to contribute more!

But. . . my content is terrible. . . It's like stale chips. You'll eat them if you have to but you won't enjoy it.