Came prepared to downvote this for being common sense, but judging by the comments it actually is surprisingly unpopular! Well played.

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Gotta actually link things if you want people to find them, my friend! 😉

Rock and stone, my friend ⛏

‘Bough’ and ‘bow’ are pronounced the same

Except, of course, when “bow” is pronounced “bow” instead.

Just don’t ever set foot in Brazil, ok got it.

Is this a thing that happens? Do I need to add it to my list of reasons I’m terrified of the sea?

Came into this thread wondering “who the hell wears belts?”. Then saw everyone in here was taking belt wearage as a given. Then looked over at my husband and saw he’s wearing a belt.

TIL, all men apparently wear belts and I just never noticed before.

Oh lord, ok now things make a lot more sense 🤦‍♀️

Can I ask how you were “introduced” to .world? Just been wondering why that’s the one everyone is moving to atm.

Running an instance definitely does help, but the problem is convincing people your small instance is competently run and there to stay.

For people unable to selfhost, ways to help include:

• Making posts and comments, especially in smaller “dead” communities. Preferably about things other than Reddit.
• Contributing fixes on GitHub
• If you’re unable to do that last one, contributing quality reproducible bug reports on GitHub (rather than in, say, instance-specific meta communities)
• Helping to answer questions from all the confused new Lemmings, yes a lot of them are asked repeatedly but we want people to learn and stay so be polite and patient.
• Making sure people know about finding communities through sites like lemmyverse.net
• Curating lists of related communities and approaching mods to have it stickied or added to their community sidebar (helps people navigate around within their niche interests)
• Going to the extra effort of including local links when you mention a community, so people can find their way directly to the subscribe button. Example: [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin)
• And of course, shitposting memes.

Yup, it’s been extremely effective. I got engaged at the end of last year and certain types of people seemed genuinely horrified that I didn’t get a diamond ring.

Anecdotally though those tended to be older folks so I think maybe it’s losing effectiveness and younger people are seeing how absurd and arbitrary the whole thing is.