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.
Water makes my eyes wet
Sooo is water wet, or it just makes things wet?
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.
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.
🌎🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
It makes itself (the molecules) wet I guess…so it is wet uwu
It’s without a doubt wet, right? Even if one claims it just makes other things wet, then surely it makes itself wet too?
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.
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…
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.
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
Nobody’s kicked me off yet, you’ll be fine
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.
Yeah honestly there’s no point adding meaningless chatter either
I like peas and mashed potatos.
What that random idiot said
One of the major things I like about lemmy is that it allows text alongside links/images - I think it’s good when OPs use this as a jumping point to start conversation as well.
Trying to do my part. So happy to have this site.
Ok fine
No need to call me out considering that’s what i do most of the time 😅
u know what? maybe we should start actively advertising the fediverse in local hacker clubs and such.
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.
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.
I second that!
I’m out here trying to get a group going all by myself 😅 I’d be super grateful if someone broke the ice
How to comment when I just can’t relate to things, people from my country are not on this platform so there are less relatable things here
They might be more common than you think!
Lemmy/PieFed isn’t all US and EU. People from all kinds of places can be found here.
The problem with contributing is that most of my Lemmy browsing is done while I’m on the can, and phone keyboards suck.
better on the can than on the can’t
Watch out for pinkeye!
I enjoy Lemmy because I tend to get a response. Despite the higher pop at Reddit, I often go ignored. It’s not unusual to have a back and forth chat with another commenter in a given thread here.
I find it hard to keep a conversation going, maybe lack of skill on my part but usually idk what to reply and hit a dead end. So most of the time I just upvote in appreciation for taking the time to respond.
Conversations either continue or they don’t. You shouldn’t be hard on yourself. If someone says something that makes you want to say or ask something else, great. If not, that’s fine too.
If you don’t know what to reply, then don’t. Seek out communities, posts, and comments about stuff you enjoy talking about. Especially when it’s a positive light.
I mean, perhaps if you’re lost for content you could just give the back story to your username?
Well I agree. I post on lemmy or mastodon-like first, then only after on Reddit if I must. Many times I get a few but meaningful replies, that’s good.
i’ve always found mastodon unintuitive, mostly because older versions used to not have a “local” feed, only a global feed,
and i think a charm of the fediverse is to have local instances, like for specific topics. and they added that local feed recently, which i like
