C’mon, Do Something

More people are still in the lurking stage of their lemmy evolution.

That’s why I’m being a lil chatty boi here. Pretend I said something clever
- Ha ha ha, really? Wow, you're fascinating!
- To shreds, you say?
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- They say he’s a Lemmy boy He said, “I’m a chatty boi…”
- Me too! Now, instead of just thinking dumb questions, I actually ask them.
- Hey this guy said somethin clevah!
- Wow, thanks, that totally fixed it!
- roooooast 🦀🦀🦀
- Wow! I never thought of it that way!
- Oh derpo, you’re such a charmer!
- Hilarious and original!
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I think I comment quite a lot but rarely post. does that count as lurking?
- Nope, not lurking
- I feel like user reply more than on reddit.
- Nah. You’re participating in conversations, or potentially starting one.
- I comment a little bit but I feel like actively making posts takes time I don't really have room ght now.
Hopefully as the mobile apps come more together it lowers the barrier of entry for new users. I know as an iOS user I’m still not sold on any one app vs another because each have their own bugs to work out. At least I’m happy with Sync on my android tablet
- Have you tried Memmy? I’m pretty happy with it

This is a comment. Engage with it.

The best part is adding that first comment and seeing it explode after.

(Explode being a very very relative term in this case 😜)

Look at this guy with

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5 points.
- It wasn’t a first (or even early) comment, I’m just encouraging participation on undiscovered posts. It’s super rewarding to ask a simple question and have engaging conversation unfold around you on a post that might otherwise die.
  
  They don’t get hot if we don’t comment!
- I got 4 followers on mastodon
  
  I'm famous
  
  Mkbhd n Austin Evans wanna collab with me
It's fun to actually have interaction and visibility here. On Reddit my comments were usually permanently buried at the bottom by the time I saw a post.

Dicks are so cute omg(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄ when you hold one in your hand and it starts twitching its like its nuzzling you(/ω＼) or when they perk up and look at you like" owo nya? :3c" hehe ~ penis-kun is happy to see me!!（＾ワ＾） and the most adorable thing ever is when sperm-sama comes out but theyre rlly shy so u have to work hard!!(๑•̀ㅁ•́๑)✧ but when penis-kun and sperm-sama meet and theyre blushing and all like "uwaaa~!" (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*: ･ﾟhehehe~penis-kun is so adorable (●´Д｀●)・:*:・

The ones I hate are "AITA" posts that are uploaded by a Reddit/Lemmy bot... Like, who tf are we supposed to reply to?

I just ban any of the content reposting bots.
- Do you have a list of them?
- I think my instance admin did that..? I’m not really sure because I have “show bots” disabled in my account, but they were actively trying to work against the bot spam. Probably both prongs helped.
  
  I don’t think I’ve seen any of the bot posts people keep complaining about and I browse all and often sort by new, so I feel I should see them.
Yeah, now AITA become a wasteland that no one post or comment anymore because it's flooded with bots content.

Luckily someone can create another AITA in another instance and we can still interact with it.
just treat it as a creative writing piece (which most of the time it is anyway)
Block the bot

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I am still sad that Facebook buried this. I know it's still there, but it used to be much more prominent.
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- Ugh, I have cringy memories from myself as a kid in the earlier days of Facebook, overusing that poke feature because I was a dumb, extremely awkward kid who had no idea how to socialize so I mostly just annoyed people. Had such a bad "lol im so raaaandum" phase.
- You say it's still there?