The activity here is starting to grow and its exciting seeing the engagement and conversations increase. If you’re a lurker please post and comment so we can attract new members and build this into a bustling community.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    If you’re a lurker please post and comment so we can attract new members and build this into a bustling community.

    I like space. It’s big.

    I also like pretty pictures.

  • dedale@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I subscribed, good community.
    Although I clicked half expecting something more literal.

  • Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Congrats! Tbh, I didn’t believe in the second wave that much because I thought that most of the caring users already switched but turns out that I was wrong and more people are actually joining which is very good. I can’t wait to see for this platform to grow bigger.

    • Altair@vlemmy.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The main driving force is the apps moving to lemmy.

      Lots of people come over if you post or comment about Sync, Boost, Slide, Infinity, Connect (similar to relay) etc

      wefwef.app and Memmy are very similar to Apollo already

      • Gromga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Yeah the atrocity that is the Reddit app and their mobile website made me switch but the familiarity of wefwef app to Apollo made it much easier to stay !

    • makunabatata@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Had the same thoughts as you. In my mind people who cared about the issue (and not cared for the company’s response) had already taken action. There might be a second small wave now, but we might be looking at a long tail adoption. The important thing is that people find and stumble to content via search engines, and who knows when these engines will be crawling the fediverse…

      • SuperMandy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        2 years ago

        I tried to come over before but there were obviously challenges. Now this setup is definitely more robust and better prepared for the influx of us refugees!

        • Gromga@sh.itjust.works
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, subscribing isn’t intuitive. What I think may be a barrier is that there’s many instances that all connect to each other, but the general population might have problems wrapping their heads around that.

    • Venutian Spring@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Same here, but I’m seeing more and more engagement across the entire platform. It’s really exciting watching things grow and I think as more people learn how to use Lemmy and they find communities they enjoy, we’ll continue to see activity increase

  • intelati@programming.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I frequent NASASpaceflight. I’m assuming anything launching is fine? How about like the Starship on the pad?

    Only submit images related to space. This may include pictures of space, artwork of space, photoshopped images of space, simulations, artist’s depictions, satellite images of Earth, or other related images

  • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I don’t have any good sources for cutting edge stuff cause I usually get my space porn from communities like this in the first place (where are y’all getting your images?), but I shared some of the great older content I’m current using for my phone background and for art on my walls. They’re very well known, though, so they’re quite frankly reposts for today’s lucky ten thousand (but I stand by that Exoplanet series being the best thing since sliced bread).

    • Venutian Spring@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Honestly NASA astronomy photo of the day has hundreds of super high quality images archived so you can see them by date. I’m active on Flickr and astrobin so I see tons of images worthy of sharing on those. Imgur has a million as well.

      Don’t feel pressured to post if you don’t want to, but if you come across anything worthy of sharing, it’d be awesome if you did

  • physcx@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I love the concept and actual community content but I wish the community name would have been changed from the Reddit one. Not something I want to point my young kids at due to community name.

    • Venutian Spring@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPM
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      2 years ago

      Yeah I can see that, but I named it that with the intention to allow people leaving reddit to find some familiar communities to feel welcome. I don’t think it detracts anything from it being related to reddit in that regard.

      And I also wanted to make sure that we keep it separated from other groups that are more wide topic, so it’s just pictures here

      I’d be more than happy to rename it something else if the general base would like to.