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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There isn't explicitly a profit motive on here (unlike almost every other big social media site).

So you can do away with the clickbait-y, karma or like farming...

We don't do that here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just wait until things grow. Those people will come once there is an audience to extract money from.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you want Lemmy to be successful, contribute as much high quality content as possible so more people will be inclined to stay here. Don't lurk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget to hit the CTRL button when clicking on any external links so they open in a new tab. Basically pretend it's 2012 again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This whole system is a lot newer than most services you've used on the Internet. It's under constant change. Expect it to look different next week, month, or year.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Until we have migration tools, think of your account as disposable
  • Never upload anything you don't want the world to see, no matter how private something claims to be
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you explain the migration tools, or lack thereof.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the mastodon/Calckey world you can migrate your account on one instance to a new account on a new instance and all the people following you will transfer and automatically follow your new account. So you don't have to be all "Hey moving to [xyz new instance] follow me there!"

That's something that's in the works for kbin and Lemmy some day

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm curious if that works with unfederated servers or servers that simple just get shutdown. Ie xyz government decides to raid the servers, (is there redundancy in the data?)