1y ago

Why do most people not post?

It seems like a lot of people don't post or at least don't post on smaller communities like obsidianmd@lemmy.world

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I don’t have anything important to say, what do you want from me? :P
- @asterfield Your thoughts, feelings and first born child.
  
  I can do notions, hunches, and my old shoes. Final offer
  
  "I want to train your child to become the ULTIMATE CONTENT CREATORRR"
- That never stopped me

People on the internet suck. No matter what, there will be someone that is upset with your words for some reason. This opens you up to harassment.
I just don’t want to.
I hesitated replying to this post because you are responding by redundantly @ing the user you are replying to. That is a mega pet peeve of mine and I hate it.
Have a nice day!
- I think that happens if they're commenting from a microblogging service, not a lemmy account.
  
  Well today I learned something.
  Thank you!
  
  It's as I use Mbin, What does both Microblogging and Threads (Lemmy)
- Sorry it auto does the @ on my instance (I use Mbin btw). But yeah I know that some people are hateful, I guess it's because people feel they can be more open without consequences often.
- People on the internet suck.
  They really do.
- Depends also on the attitude, I think.
  I haven't met many people in this "they suck"-mold of yours. The contrary however...

Why do more people read books than write books? Why do more people eat than cook? It's easier to consume than to produce.

How many newspaper articles have you read vs written?
- @infreq Why does it have to be articles? I've read a few of them that are connected from people on Mbin but I like genuine people posting on smaller communities and things.

I don’t have anything interesting to post, but I do like promoting conversation!
- !casualconversation@lemmy.world might interest you
- @qooqie Do you not have questions about tools or topics you enjoy? I have questions all the time for the topics and products I use.
  
  I do, but usually a quick search shows it has been asked before and I don’t want to cause any spam

Most of the time it's because I have nothing worth sharing.
- Yep. Same. Someone has already shared my thoughts or something close enough. No need for me to comment.

Why are more visitors than artists going to the galleries?
- We artists have been biding our time in hiding, building our numbers, preparing for the day we have the strength in numbers to overtrhow the gallery visitors and establish a fortress inside against the world. But don't tell anyone. /s
  
  Just disguise your revolution as "performance". No one will notice in time.

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
I also often question whether the thing I'd like to post needs to be posted (and in the process, I talk myself out of it)

There's the 90/9/1 rule - out of every 100 people 1 provides content, 9 interact and the other 90 lurk.
I created and post in a community, worldwithoutus but even after it got above 100 it's usually just me posting.
- Duh. I just realised I need to get to 200 before the second poster emerges.
  
  @livus Lol yeah, it seems more people sit and maybe comment but there's just so much room for people to talk about the topic and even do there own posts but I guess most people just want to look at it and not interact.

Because I have nothing to share that I find important enough. I'd rather comment on something
- @gerryflap Yeah it seems a lot more people are willing to comment over post, it's nice to see people are a little active.
  
  I think we should cherish commenting too.
  Creating posts is not the only way of making engagement. Even though it's better than having a community of 0 posts, I still would be sad to look at a community that has one new post daily but doens't get any votes or comments.
  Within time not getting engagement can become demoralizing to the content creator. Why bother if you don't get anything in return? (Been there, felt that - and in many occasions.)

I have nothing to share. Funny thing is, as an IT person, I've even built my own blog just to have one and share obstacles and solutions I find during my developer journey, and then, once I finished and published it, I was thinking "damn, now what should I post about?" My blog is almost empty ever since then. So... yeah. As for me, I have absolutely nothing to share and I've made the extra mile to not share anything.
- [...] I’ve even built my own blog just to have one and share obstacles and solutions I find during my developer journey, and then, once I finished and published it, I was thinking “damn, now what should I post about?” My blog is almost empty ever since then.
  So, is the almost because it does cover the making of and then stops afterward, or...It's the wonderfiller text only? 😂

I post when I have something to say. I don't post/comment for its own sake.
- this
  ^(example of the types of comments that don't really contribute anything)

I don't know y'all, and when people interact, there's no true community here. I'll probably not remember most of your names, similar to reddit, digg, slashdot, etc etc...
- REMEMBER ME!
- That's actually what I like about these sorts of communities. I recognize a few super posters and a few specific regulars from communities I frequent. (@skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone I want you to know that I think about you and you matter <3) But mostly I'm dealing with disembodied ideas and content. It's a conversation with strangers who meet up to talk about certain subjects. We get little bits of each other in a vacuum. We have to address only that bit we're given, because we don't know each other.
  I use other social media for real community. Lemmy is for camaraderie. We meet to do something, not to just be.
- The only name I immediately remember is MicroWave who seems to post all the time.
- I would really like to foster a sense of community in the communities I’m active in. Mostly I try doing this by encouraging others to post, reference to other users by name like “nice to see you back, user” or, “you should ask user, they know more about this kind of thing”.
  Referring to others by name does make a community seem more like a connected whole. At least in my opinion.
  It’s nice to be recognized as a person and not just another comment.

People hate my opinions.
- You're wrong.
- I certainly do. Now back to your cave.

I have a feeling that the results of this question are going to be biased against those who don't post answers.
- @henfredemars Lol, guess it would be, but I guess some people may comment but not post.
- Yeah, well those folks can go to hell. They're the worst, I assume.

I have posted a few times and almost every time someone complains that the link I posted was already posted by someone else.
Like, sorry, I didn’t see it and I’m not going to spend 15 minutes researching whether an article was already posted here.
So, it’s mainly that.
- @M500 Why do people think links to articles are the only thing you can post?

I posted for a while, but the responses were all kind of the same. There isn't a lot of variety here: we mostly have the same viewpoint and we aren't great at discussion.
- @sbv Activate my AUTISM, Social Interaction issues.

Maybe there are less bots here. And people who dont have anything to sharr lurk.

I would love to but then I'd have to restrain myself from not permanently rolling my eyes to the back of my head with some of the replies. I speak from experience elsewhere.
- What do you mean? Negative or constructive criticism? Negative votes?
  Hardship is a part of life. That goes to criticism as well.
  I am willing to take risks of bad feels for the sake of trying to make places more active. Luckily I've been doing much better than what I first anticipated!
  No pain, no gain.
  
  I'm not complaining about the hardships of life. And it's not necessarily the pointless criticism but replies from people who miss the point entirely, get random ideas of why I posted things, type up some throwaway nit-picking commentaries over the most trivial things, or just being all around rude and condescending instead of downvoting and moving on, etc. And what do I get in return for putting up with that? Imaginary internet points. I get the same feeling of participation from just commenting with a fraction of the effort, so I'd rather do that.
- @Lemminary The experience else doesn't always corelate to experience on another platform but yeah I get what you mean.

Also, if you do post why don’t you not post?
- Also, if you do comment why don't you not comment?
  Half-jokes aside, I post as I post 'cause I don't see the questions/answers on Lemmy on a light search, albeit I may see them on Reddit or elsewhere, and want folks to be able to find responses/answers to similar questions here. Besides that I also like asking questions for more current responses than others that may be outdated or otherwise benefit from some current perspectives.

I don't like being drown out by other comment, I don't like repeating what's already been said.
- @Usernameblankface That's fair enough on big communities but why not smaller ones?
  
  If the community is too small, there's little to no response to what I want to say.
  Just like getting buried in too many similar comments doesn't make an interaction, being the only comment with no reply or making a post with no discussion underneath also doesn't make an interaction.

neurodivergence takes the wheel.

Because I prefer to create. I like to make YouTube videos, downloadable audio clips of my journaling, etc.
This is going into a rant but it will come back to the point.
There is a visceral hatred for small creators for some reason and there almost always has been since 2000ish. It always comes with this sinister idea that you're only doing it to make money. Meanwhile anybody that has made art/content realizes making it large is like getting into a professional sports team - we can all play for the love and impossible dream but we're never going to make a penny, in fact it's going to cost us far more to create the content than we will ever see returned.
If you are tiny and you post your own efforts, apparently you're spamming your channel for that fat payday. My channel with 800 subscribers, daily videos, and a million views didn't pay for my microphone.
But if you're a big site that probably doesn't need the exposure as much as the smaller would appreciate, that's fine for people to post.
We're living in the beginning of the post-social media world, I lived in the BBS days so I've seen a lot. I really think it's time to intentionally go back to small forums, small content creators, hobbyists, and fuck the big boys already. They have carried their nonsense as far as they can go and it's just not going to work anymore especially with the rise of AI trash content.
But to the answer the question, it's disheartening, and a bit of a waste of time to try to post your own content and that's all I'm really interested in posting. It's too exhausting being beaten down continually and criticized just for wanting to add something to the world and share.
- I used to try posting stuff but it never got much engagement, I really just don't get how this shit works. These days I only occasionally comment, and even then it's only when I'm already just trying to waste time.
- .
  If you get a million views in YouTube, can you gain a small income through that?
  Can you partner up with other names/creators to raise awareness/visibility to your own name/work?
  Sometimes you need to keep standing your ground. Explain how it is and if they don't believe you, ignore them.
  Do you wish to get money? Is this a hobby?
  .
  I think it depends how a post you create is doing. What the community you choose is, what is its activity, what kind is your post, what materials you use (text, images etc)...
  To my knowledge (of one month), it's easier to get any sort of engagement (being it likes or comments) from one cute or sad comic image than from sincere, deeper discussion of whatever topic.
  We are fighting against people's time. How should they use it?
  And then again - we use these services for different purposes. Some of us jump in for a quick lolz off pictures, while others delve for hours in all sorts of peculiar discussions.
  (I'm not so much of a content creator - at least when it comes to something else than text. But I try to do my part in all sorts of communities that interest me to kick some engagement around this place 💓
  I'd like to see this thing taking off and getting at least some of the activity what Reddit gets)

Hi. What's up.

I'm on Artemis on Android. It doesn't appear to be possible.
When it is I might share my goat videos. In the mean time, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCucYNmlqU-O1npt002LXVTA

Is there anything about your question that is specific to Lemmy? If you're just asking in general then I think it's been answered long ago and a web search would give you more than enough information.
- @orcrist It's more to do with Lemmy / Kbin / Mbin it seems like most people don't like to post.

I’d ask them but they’re not replying

I want to, but it seems broken for me. Maybe this is just a kbin thing, but every time I try to make a post it gives me a 500 error.
- @mrbubblesort I suggest to try Mbin it's got a lot of bug fixes as I was getting errors like that using Kbin (Also same UI or if not improved)

I scroll through posts and only comment on ones I care to comment on, which aren't too many.

It's probably a federation thing.

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