Welcome newbie. Most of us were in your shoes recently. You're already following the top tip: be engaged. To be counted as an active user you need to comment or post once a day. Nothing wrong with not being active, but the number of active users is a shiny sparkly number we're all staring intently at for the moment.

If you are looking for the communities similar to Reddit, look at sub.rehab. You can filter that to just lemmy and kbin.

Enjoy. Your task now is to find the poop post. You'll probably catch references to it soon, if you haven't already.

Same here, though my acc has been here since the announcement of api changes, just now moving in with the traffic lol

Hi! I'm in the same boat (or lifeboat, as it were). So far, I have to say I'm impressed with Lemmy and the various apps that are racing to become the most polished and feature-packed. I hope you find yourself at home here too.

Feels like it’s off to a solid start. Change can be good sometimes. I’m using wef wef and feeling right at home! I’m also watching all the apps.

Ultimately, it’s the users and mods they make the community … not a company. I’m also really rooting for them entire fediverse to conceptually take off!!