I think the hardest thing to overcome will be community duplication across instances. When searching for my old subreddit subscriptions' parallels, I had to dive into the duplicated communities a few times to see which one had more posts/were more active.

Of course, the gentlemanly thing to do when creating a community would be to check first, but that's obviously not happening all the time. Then there's what to do if one gets created; should the instance admins get reports and yeet them if it's determined to be a copy?

I made two communities, they are niche for sure, but I'm doing my part lol

I normally lurk, but I feel more comfortable posting here than on Reddit for some reason. On reddit I would mostly just upvote or downvote posts and move on.

You're not the boss of me. Lurking has been a tried and true past time of link aggregators since time immemorial. If this community can't function without lurkers, it's DOA.

Ive been doing just that, decided to go in at the deep end and make my own Digital Art community, its fun watching it grow, its already coming up on 100 subscribers, and i plan on openeing up submissions at around 200 subs since then people will have a decent size community to see the posts.

It seems the world is indeed what we make of it. Join us!

No posts yet, but I think I've already commented more here in a few days than my last 5 years on Reddit.

I'm not much of a content creator... But I love following contents creators... Am I useful?

Don't tell me how to Lemmy...

I mean you're right.

Reddit-lurker for 9 years. Starting off with a comment event before understanding how this thing works. The sky is the limit from here on!

Well i had an account just to lurk on reddit, but like anything else in life things eventually come to an end. I don't know what kind of content can be easily imported here. Years ago, i would post about a variety of things, but recently the content that i see is much less varied than it was, so posting has become less interesting. Guess searching stuff on google earth is just as fun as it was than instead. It's interesting to see all this activity without gpt-fied comments tho

My content is pretty shit, but I'll glady support and comment on you more interesting folks' stuff!

Already spammed "shitposting" community with...shitposts. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

I’m doing my part!

Just did my part by posting my pup in the cute cats and dogs thing.

One un-ironic way to have a boom in content and users is expanding the amount of porn on the fediverse. That had a massive contribution to tumblr and reddit

I'm a bit of an introvert, even online. But HEY look at me participating here with my first ever lemmy comment! Small steps, right?

I'm working on it, but I'm trying to refrain from making dozens of posts on a community I created. However, I'd have no problems doing so.

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.

Good practice; See a post that might fit a theme sutiable for somewhere else? Cross post it to a place that it suits. You can go to the community and search for a place like "Facepalm" and crosspost it there.

I have been trying to raise interest for other communities Mildly Infuriating has hit 2.81K members which is staggering, I'm honestly so happy to see it but we still have a way to go. I have every desire to spread the people of the community around as it's a win for Lemmy and a spite to Reddit. It's in our interest for the fediverse to explode and grow with content.

It's why I'm also advocating for communities to partner with each other. You can place links to other communities that may have a similar theming that other people might like. It would be a great way to offer up more content, and give that much needed love to communities starting and growing! <3

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

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...

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!

I'm not a particularly entertaining or creative person outside of my music (which I don't think anyone would care about), but I do like to post and interact with text posts like AITA/NoStupidQuestions/ChangeMyView/etc, so I look forward to taking part there.

I have a broad question. Forgive me if it's dumb as I am not super technically savvy.

Is there a way to put a massive set of common image memes into a pool we can pick from and just have something point to that image? I keep reading that storage space is quickly going to be an issue for instances, and that seems like a good way to reduce some data.

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