Besides donating, being active Lemmy user and creating content helps the platform thrive.
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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replaying to comments also helps
I'm helping!
But then how can I maintain a lurking status?
Two accounts
Now look at what you've done!
Lurking account on a different instance.
Shitposting makes lemmy float to the top of the toilet bowl!
Post cat pictures.
What if I donβt have a cat?
Post dog pictures
Keep posting
Youβre never gonna believe this, but I donβt have a dog either.
All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving crazed weasels.
Generate the pictures with artificial neural nets
Time to pay the cat tax
Donate to devs. Donate to your instance. Post. Comment. Be active.
- use smaller instances besides lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, this will increase decentralization
- donate to your instance hosts and important devs in the field
- be active and post high value content
Upvote all my comments.
Tell your friends about it, especially the ones who use reddit
The lead lemmy devs are struggling with funding - https://join-lemmy.org/donate
Sync isn't well updated / supported and I'd recommend moving to another client. I was a long time sync user so I found it hard, but I personally settled on Thunder https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder&hl=en_CA
Jebora is pretty damn good too
Thanks, I had to research to even notice anything was wrong.
Former Sync user here, Thunder is ok but Voyager has more features.
My muscle memory is far too ingrained π