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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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try sorting by new and boosting genuine efforts.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have noticed that sorting by new is pretty much required here if you want to see something, eh, new.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sad but true.

I think the basic functionality is working great, but it needs a critical mass of people. Next few weeks and the June 30 shutdown will make or break.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ooh what's June 30? I've only heard of the one starting tomorrow so far

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

That’s when most of the 3rd party apps are shutting down, same as the start of big new API fees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The major apps have announced to shut down on June 30th.

It's expected that there'll be a major influx of former app users - if they haven't left reddit already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think the apps are also an important factor, lots of people are having issues using jerboa and lemur rn, but I feel support might get better soon

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried that but sorting by new is almost unusable. After a few seconds it starts loading new posts at the top and then everything moves, and keeps moving. You can't read something if it doesn't stand still.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

lemmy.world users have subbed too many places! Guess it's a "good" problem and something that can be fixed.