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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

Shit, they're standing right behind me, aren't they...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't look at me: Complaining is too much effort.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What the hell am I supposed to post? Where do you think I get content?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

You are suppose to post about future Oscar winning movie, Barbie, silly!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same thing here: as much as I wouldn't mind to post, I just don't know what !!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Find anything, really. Look at your interests and hobbies and share your experiences with those.

I'm sharing photos I take in multiple communities: cats, aww, toads, birding, etc. I also periodically comment in the communities I'm subbed to so others have things to reply to.

Be the change you want to see in your community.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Where am I gonna post? One of the 12 meme communities that make up 99% of posts, or one of the 12,000 communities where the last post was four months ago and it had two comments, one of which was a bot summary?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are you complaining about the niche communities not having any activity, but not posting anything there yourself? I could've sworn i saw a meme about just such a thing, if only i could find it.

But in all seriousness, most "dead" communities have many lurkers that are joined but not posting, so posting there isn't necessarily a waste of time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Look at my post history for example. I've posted to some larger communities like Cats, but also to smaller ones like toads, mushrooms, and mycology to try to breathe life into them or to keep them alive.

If you want to see more content in certain areas, be the change you want to see in the Lemmy.

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

The fact is that if you arent into Linux, piracy, shitting on Elon or communism a lot of Lemmy is pretty shit.

I was super active on Reddit in a lot of communities that are just straight up wastelands here.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

You can go to one of the 120 linux communities to brag about your arch desktop rice!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I personally am 99% of the posts in one of said niche communities. Plants won't grow if you don't put effort into growing them, why would communities?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pff, I'll have you know that I created a single post in the past 5 months. I'm doing my part!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... You're doing your part. Your part to the power of .05! HA!! GOT'EEEM!

Hahahaha. But seriously, I get it. Finding good/great content isn't that easy. But that's one of the best things we can do as an instance collective. Commenting adds to the discussion and can also enrich the posted content as well.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's amazing how many of those posters have zero posting history. Comments or posts.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Oy! I'll have you know, I'm a professional leech.

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

Maybe the default mode for new users should be top-6h. I've been using it for a while now and the flow of content is perfect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Oh man did not realize Liftoff had a setting for this. Top 6h default activated.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

4 posts. You got me beat!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I'm in danger !

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Sometimes I'm the only one posting in some smaller communities. I looked back one day and was like, shit those are all from me.

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

I don’t post. I didn’t post on Reddit and I’m very likely not going to start posting now.

I’m simply just not interested in making posts and won’t bother

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's like saying: don't like the current Hollywood movies? Why dont YOU make Hollywood movies. Im here to watch not to create.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

You wouldn't like my content anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They posted the complaint, didn't they?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dunno what to post. Got nothing really interesting going on in my life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Just post about what you find interesting and try to put a funny spin on it. I've made posts about all sorts of topics/cultures that I'm genuinely curious about whenever I make an observation that I think could make people chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm going to keep posting this everywhere it's relevant: if you downvote oc, you are discouraging more people from posting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

sorry. but at least I don't complain. I love this place and it's people as they are and never going back to reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Listen, I had a good streak of star trek memes until my life became pure chaos

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm a fairly prolific poster. At least commenter. I started a community here for a subreddit I miss. I've even got 97 subscribers. Three of us post anything, and I am by-far the most active of those three. I highly suspect that's an expected ratio of lurkers to posters. Meaning, if I want a reasonable number of engagement, I need to get like thirty times as many subscribers. I can't see that happening any time soon unless Reddit actually collapses.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Biggest problem for me is that the community I'm most active in (/r/hockey) didn't even try to move away from Reddit and since that's where I'm the most active, I don't make those posts here because I can't, its just not worth it because nobody will see it. Same goes for some video game communities, they also did not even try to move and some of the devs actually read those niche subs, so there's no point in moving. I like kbin/Lemmy, but its just not at the same level with some of those subs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'm not so much a posting type of guy as I'm a commenting type of guy. Does this count?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

What band is this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Because it's like a dozen fucking people who post 90% of the content. I blocked like, I dunno -- 20 people, and it took care of MOST of the weird ass fetish stuff popping up in my feed, leaving the odd cutie here or there.

I'd rather have a severe lack of farmed content, for a lot more genuine posts. Regardless of if it's "dead" or not. If I see users with like 20k post points, and 100 comment points, I block them.

If there was a way to automatically do this (only show content from users with a certain ratio of posts to comments), I would.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (12 children)

So if you post content and never comment you should be blocked? Weird way of operating.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

You can post a fuckton and still be "geniue" like most of my shitposting is shit I see on Instagram. The fact of the matter is if there was no content then this site would go dead. And then you'd leave. Do you see the catch 22 of your attitude? Honestly, you seem like a extremely pretentious person. The kind of person that just looks for a vague idea of perfection and lives in a perpetual state of disappointment when nothing matches it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey Balderdash, good to see your posts again :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You're a real one Exusia 🫡

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

i don't post much.. i make a comment every now and then, but i enjoy reading what the posters put out there. not everything has to be plenty for me to enjoy, nor does it have to be like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc. but i get it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I try my best :)

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