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How do you deal with being the only one posting in a community (aka "shouting into the void")? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not gonna lie, sometimes it feels a bit lonely. I try to post on a few generic communities

Sometimes I can be the only poster for a few weeks. Makes me requestion the relevance of posting at all. I started posting to [email protected] recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Lemmites generally have a handful of interests: US politics, Linux, and Star Trek. I guess the war in Gaza gets a lot of comments too. But outside of that range, it gets pretty quiet.

Going back to Reddit every now and then, it's nice to see conversations on other topics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's kind of strange. I have been trying to correct that with recents posts in [email protected] and [email protected].

We are 50k people here, don't tell me there is no one that likes other stuff that the one you listed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think some of this may be the default Active sort setting for the all/federated feed keeping some communities and their posts around the top. Might be mistaken, but my understanding is that it primarily elevates upvoted posts with recent comments, leaning on recent comments for keeping it visible.

Problem is, that means some posts that may get a decent amount of upvotes but no or few comments may gradually get buried, only rising to the top briefly or on some slower days.

I think as a result of getting buried, some may not see the other stuff they might want to talk about to comment on, and besides that, I sometimes get the sense there are a lot of lurkers around here, voting on stuff but otherwise not commenting either for lack of anything to add or not wanting to risk getting into arguments (if not both).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

voting on stuff but otherwise not commenting either for lack of anything to add

I see myself in this comment and I don't like it. It's hard to make the first comment though. Any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

What you did at the end can be a good approach tbh. Be curious and ask something about the post, or something in it that you're not sure of or familiar with, or if the OP hasn't added any body text or indications in the title and simply posted, what their opinion on it is, or if it's like a show/story/site/product, what's the premise or what's up with it and what they like about it.

Also if you don't want to focus it on the OP, in the absence of other comments, you can say as much like, "Do you (including anyone else reading) know/think [somethingsomething here]?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Hello, good to see you here.

You might be right, this is indeed a filtering issue. I use "New comments" on Subscribed, and then "Top X hours" on All, but people who use Active must definitely be missing on some.