Concentrate on just a few communities to comment and post. It'll be too easy to spread yourself thin and feel overwhelmed. If you feel you're very knowledgeable in a particular area then that community needs you now.

This is a good start.

I’m trying to be more vocal than I have been in the past, specifically because if everyone lurks, there’s nothing to read. So even creating silly chat threads is a good start, to drive engagement.

I don't proselytize, since everyone I know uses facebook, twitter etc. I'm the only one who views non-anonymous social media harmful on individual and community level.

Every time discussion turns to this subject, they all get this "here we go again, not listening" expression on their face. So, I'm not gonna go there anymore.

Breakfast was French tee, jogurt and mueslibar.

What am I doing? I'm letting it grow naturally instead of posting condescending low effort crap like this post

Better start contributing yourself first :) We all flock to content and building a community takes time.

I started by posting into my favourite communities !simpleliving@lemmy.ml and !minimalism@lemmy.world. Starting to feel like it's getting traction now. I'm sure many checked the communities out and didn't stay because there was nothing to comment and no questions, and creating a post can be intimidating. Go for it!!

Breakfast: Air and water because I wake up too late to work every morning...

That would imply that I have some sort of duty to participate. I do not.

I am doing what I would have done on reddit, comment, interact with people. I rarely made posts over there as well though. I do also tell people about lemmy and about the jerboa for lemmy mobile app

I feel like I've been glued to kbin since joining, and adding new posts and articles to the smaller communities I want to see active. With varying degrees of success. I was only a lurker on reddit so this is quite a lot of activity for me! Trying to embody the idea of 'be the change you want to see'...

I don't want to create magazines though as I don't want to moderate and feel they would be better created by someone more dedicated.

Oh and breakfast was a sesame bagel!

I just joined yesterday. I've always been more of a lurker, but trying to at least comment on stuff now to help get conversations rolling/more interaction. I think knowing that most of the communities are new and trying to gain traction, rather than being years old and just ghost towns gives a bit of hope.

Breakfast for me was leftover pizza

I have nothing interesting to post about. I'll just upvote and comment here and there. If I find a community I like, I will engage more often.

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I messaged the owner of /m/cigars@kbin.social to see if they intended to be active and didn’t hear back, so I made /m/Tobacconist@kbin.social and have been posting anything relevant I could while I wait for other people that maybe care at all about that stuff.

Otherwise I’m trying to pick one sub to post to for each of my broader hobbies, and I respond regularly to whatever pops up in /all

No food yet just coffee - probably make an egg Sammy soon

I’m definitely becoming a kbin shill to all my friends and I think they’re starting to get tired. I’m trying my best to leave comments on posts that I find interesting. Haven’t posted anything yet because I don’t have anything to post. I will post when I find something interesting enough (I do have a backlog of stupid memes on my camera roll?).
Breakfast was a granola bar. Slept in because it’s a holiday and I don’t have class. There’s a cinnamon roll I was planning on saving that I’m now eyeing.

I've been consistently sorting by all+new and trying to comment on posts that relevant to me. It can be a bit difficult when it's just a link or image though.

And Raisin Bran

I‘m commenting as many things as I can think of and upvoting everything, but other than that I haven‘t contributed much. It‘s a work in progress.

I created my community (for fanfiction), after realizing I couldn't wait for someone else to do it. I don't usually have enough spoons to constantly post things. Interacted some, but not a whole lot on Reddit. I'm working with what energy I do have to make a good foundation.

Hopefully, one day, enough people will be around to interact I can go back to my comfortable amount of interaction. I just want to read people talking about their projects and what they are enjoying! It can't be too much to ask!

Trying to! This comment is testing federation stuff, so we'll see if you see this over on lemmy.one!

I’m not posting. And I need to be. But I’m voting like a motherfucker.

I just joined yesterday. I'm still trying to process the change. Lots of stuff is buggy and weird, which is exciting. I just tried to post to an ADHD...sub? What are they called here? Anyway, when I tried to post I got a json error. I'm using Jerboa, I'll try from a PC later.

For breakfast I'm having some cold brew coffee in almond milk. I'm doing intermittent fasting to get some control over my weight and to stave off the type II diabetes that tends to run in my family.

I started a magazine on kbin.social for the anime I like but since the community stayed behind it's only me there. However, I still repost fanarts like I usually did on Reddit.

I created a lucid dreaming community: https://kbin.social/m/LucidDreaming
I've added a few threads, articles and videos. Hopefully that's at least something to start with.

My co-mod and myself are keeping the content flowing, interest in hunting for and engaging with the type of content we publish seems light right now unless you are on twitter. We'll keep it flowin and stealthy build in public.

I made @Internetparents but it's still very quiet

Open invite for all musicians to head over to !songcovers on the reddthat.com instance and post their cover videos! I'd love to get that community going but only two posts so far!

I've been making discussion oriented posts on a lot of communities that have little to no content. It's been somewhat successful.

I am an ex-reddit user and had to leave due to u/spez ruining the platform.

I've had a look on the different decentralized platforms we have in today's age, and stumbled upon kbin.
I really like it.

I've been told if i want to start a community, i would have to run it on my linux server. Is it relatively easy for others to join? I could easily run one if any of you have a suggestion, drop me some ideas.

Question:
These communities, are they working on all decentralized platforms? Like mastadon? Or is it for strict use on kbin?

Currently not doing enough to help. Real life has just been far too eventful lately and I haven't been online much haha. But I will try to convince people to subscribe to some of the sports communities my instance is hosting. Want to help grow it.

Besides that, just upvote as much as possible and comment as much as possible, and throw out posts for a community even if you think it's not that interesting. Just need to fill up the wall and show there's frequent activity and the people will come

I started yesterday. Liking it so far, blocking some magazines that are maybe for teens.

My question is about comments. When I'm on kbin and browse a different instance's communities, I'll see comments, but when I switch instances to say lemmy.world there'll be more comments or entirely different comments.

Are comments only local to your instance?

In the begining I was rolling through the subs that I'm interested in that weren't getting a lot of engagement and posting something, and trying to engage with some other content that was on there. I'm doing it when I have time. Hopefully others are doing the same.

We're getting there, it def feels as though these instances have more legs than the Twitter Masto experience in the fall. Just gotta keep engaging and sharing content. The emphasis though should be on engaging on pre-existing content, with meaningful comments. Just dropping in and saying "interesting article" probably isn't going to be helpful.