Hexbear has been getting a lot more attention and activity as of late, and while it is very fun to dunk on the new people posting on the site in bad faith, a post to appreciate the new good faith users contributing to the site seems like a great idea.

So, what new users do you appreciate, and what should other potential new users do to get the same reception?

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, I gotta say the whole Lemmy vibe has fixed a lot of that issue for me. I had some 500k karma on Reddit from comments, but I deleted all of them within a week of posting because the anxiety got to me. I wanted to be entirely transient there. Part of the conversation, but as soon as the conversation was over, gone.

Lemmy is a smaller more community-feel community in general, and other than a few bad actors, it’s really peaceful here.

I have wild amounts of anxiety about tons of things, and I don’t feel weird participating here (even without deleting all my content regularly!)

Once you get through the “I’m posting to help everyone here” barrier, which that silly message on posts with no comments helps a ton with, it’s such a good space to exist. Even if you don’t agree, if you do so from a place of open communication and accept what others want to share with you, you’ll be totally fine.

[–] LeBron@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, this gives me a lot more confidence in just going with the flow. Some of the back and forths here have already been pleasant too