Don’t be a vote connoisseur here please. Redefine how you think about voting and participating.

Do you miss your communities from elsewhere. Well guess what, you are that core community now. If you want it back, the only thing holding you back is you. Don’t wait on someone else to start posting. You don’t need to worry about the perfect polished quality of your content or if it has been done before elsewhere. The current bar is, umm, poorly defined. No one is judging you. Call it practice. EVERY time you see something interesting, get in the habit of posting it please. Maybe go out of your way to grab a reference or two and post them.

Along these lines, think of how unsure and uncomfortable this may seem to most of us former lurker connoisseurs. You can play hard and thick skinned all you want, but you know exactly what post or comment you posted elsewhere that got the most votes or interaction. Why? Because it matters to you. So upvote everything you can. It matters to someone else too. Don’t upvote just for the value or interest you have in the content. Do it just to say “hey, thanks for making the effort to participate and make this place a few lines longer.” Please rethink how you handle voting, at least for now, think of a down vote as FU for participating, no votes as I wish you weren’t here. We are all likely accustomed to a lot more interaction and validation in our own little niches. This is really an underpinning value of social media, we are here to engage with people, so tell people who are new and unsure about a new and different place, “hey, thanks for participating.” You may not know or really appreciate their interests, but you can help us grow a core that can evolve into your favorite niches as the community grows. You are the core community. We can all make it grow if we make it a place people want to be.

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    What’s difficult is finding this website in the first place, most people don’t understand terms like instances and all the server details, it would have been fine to just share this main link and tell people to recreate communities

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      There is a bit of a learning curve, but it is not terrible. Based on the growth numbers so far over the last few days a small competence filter may be a good thing IMO. Maybe it will be too much for the most negative potential users to overcome.

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        I know I should read about all this more, but I’m just gonna jump right in and figure out how to comment and post on my own. I still have no idea what an instance is, but atleast I’ve found communities and I even posted a few comments so I seem to be doing just fine lol

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        That’s fair, we don’t want to put too much on the website and bring it down. So far the only frustrating this is that to post on other existing communities I need to make an entirely new account for that website?

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          Not really, you may subscribe, read and comment on remote communities.

          (Just like this message I am posting from my feddit.de instance)

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          Nah, just search for most of them. If you can’t subscribe initially, I think it means you need to make a post on on the sub.

          Try not using apps. This is not trying to data mine you, so it works better in a browser. Your instance is like your app. Log into your instance (Lemmy.world), use the hamburger menu to find the magnifying glass to search. Be mindful of the context of the search. Local is searching only in .world. All searches all federated instances. Think of this like what it is; notice the version number is 0.17… This is a beta version and the developers are working on it as they can and as this grows. Donations help, but I’m sure they have real jobs just like almost everyone else here. Everyone involved is a volunteer. Like I think Ruud is hosting .world out of his own pocket, and the entire development budget is like $500 per month for Lemmy’s 2 primary contributing devs. There are going to be bugs and issues that take some time to resolve.

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        This was exactly why I decided to jump in and learn. I know why I dislike most platforms and I can see the potential for something much better, here.

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          Already it reminds me of the early days of reddit, before memebarf, trolls, and shitposters took over. I know it’s inevitable that it’ll end up here too, but the reprieve is nice.

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            So far, yes! Much of this takes me waaaaaay back to the early screechy interweb days. Maybe the nostalgia has me in its grip, I dunno. :D

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      We’ll get there, I suspect. The learning curve is good, because it provides a hurdle for trolls and bots and boomer shitposters, which means those of us wanting to actually put some thought in can get a head start before the black hats catch on.

      In addition om to what OP said, we should give a thought to how we will handle bots when they inevitably start showing up.