What I don't get are the people who'd join new communities and just do nothing with them. Like, you're the lifeblood of said community, it's nothing unless you contribute to it. But they join them, see nothing or nobody and just abandon. It's annoying and sad. It's almost expectant that there must be things going on within the hour or it's just best forgotten.

And that's probably the only thing playing to Reddit's advantage right now. Even if most of the content is shallow and empty with nothing useful being said, there's always something running within minutes.

We don't really need the users who used Lemmy as just a brief spot because they wanted to feel good about going elsewhere, knowing that they'll succumb back to Reddit's shit and they'll be all defeatist again. Must be a masochistic thing.

[–] ExcessivelySalty@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

@infyrin imo you're contributing to Lemmy just by being here, lurking is perfectly fine, you don't have to actively participate.

@LambLeeg

[–] scrooge@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

You say this, but people have the right to be lurkers if they want. No one is forced to keep a community going.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Moving one over here was fairly hard for this reason. I admittedly should be keeping it up still, but where realizing I had nine whole subscribers made me really happy (there are tens of us!), realizing nobody was ever going to make a move of any sort even to comment and that I was going to continue carrying this entire community by myself has made me very discouraged.

I know most people are content to lurk while they look for something that's interesting enough to post/interact with. I do that too. But come on, guys. Don't do me like this. Nobody goes online to sit and talk to themselves.