Reporting for duty

Beehaw thinks I should post less though.

I make it a point to post a few articles every day.

Not a firehose, but I'm doing my part.

Well, 4 after FlyingSquid left.

That would explain all the shitposts and memes. 😛

I would say it's more 500 than 5

I genuinely worry about Picard Maneuver and Lady Butterfly. What of one of them got hit by a car!?

I'm not a big fan of those absolute firehoses though. It would be impossible to read as much as they post, and therefore they can't have much invested or interest in the subjects which is bad for discussion and reminds me of the reasons for disliking AI slop.

I'm the dribble of drool from a baby's mouth every so often.

Probably bots.

What if they're bots and we've all been fooled?

Nah ! They are at least 8.

Yeah honestly there's no point adding meaningless chatter either. I like the comment sections here because it feels like people have let their words settle in their minds before they started mashing the keyboard.

I think I'm still a little concerned about account security especially in these scary US fascist times. Trying to take the safest course of action but I am still burnt over by reddit and its hard to wipe your accounts there too now...

I appreciate your concern for the quality of your contributions, and I think this place has a higher proportion of that type of user than just about any other platform.

This place is small and it's generally friendly and inclusive. Most comments won't get any replies, but the ones that do will generally be constructive. The users here are into the whole idea of the social contract and that we can have something nice if we are just excellent to one another.

I repeatedly say "generally" because this is an open platform and assholes are allowed to join. The assholes can even have their own instance dedicated to asshole topics! But fortunately the instances and communities are generally moderated by actual decent humans who are much like the users!

So let that knowledge help you comment more, not less! Even if you get no comments and like 5 upvotes, it actually feels like something of value even if it's just a nod from a few decent people.

Edit: part of the conclusion was supposed to be that you can consider comments more like a discussion with people and not some strict message board.

Nobody's kicked me off yet, you'll be fine

Comments might actually be the most valuable thing right now, even moreso than posts

Do you want to talk about it?

I've found that near every post I've made only has nice comments. Unless it is political lol, but thats par for the course. I believe in you!

If you commit to making a post, I commit to being nice to you and not being a jerk.I try not to be like that in general and appreciate people's willingness to contribute.

Start by posting a pic of a pet. You'll get upvoted and will get over your fear. If people do downvote or complain, just let it roll off and try again.

I fear only one thing. That I will be too bland/boring or what I deem in any way interesting won't be. Or that it will be and I'd get overwhelmed with amount of comments and wouldn't be able to reply to even third of them and would come off as a dick or a bot :< That and I am well aware I am not compatible with most of lemmy so yeah.

I never posted nor commented in reddit, here I try to overcome the social anxiety

I post a lot and don't usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.

The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.

"It usually takes me 30-40 minutes to find the strengh to post something. How others will react to it, or is it even meaningful to post it, I find myself facing theses questions as much irl as online."

Just remember everybody is anonymous and the votes don't really matter!

Also I can guarantee you that no one else will scrutinize what you say as much as you do. Mostly they will not even remember!

And I appreciate your content, I still remember your hyprland setup tipping me over the edge to finally go down the window manager rabbit hole 😂

Definitely a better ratio than me, that's for sure.

can confirm, this user has 0 posts and 1 comment

I feel seen.

Keyboard issues?

Same, too busy upvoting and moving on as usual...

It's the internet, if you have something worth saying say it, someone will find it useful in the future.

I started posting by picking the communuty for the place i live and trying to post local and independent media and special interest groups articles about/in the context of that place.

Its benefits are,

• It creates activity on the fediverse that is unique, and the more interesting for it.
• You'll be promoting the voices of those less often heard.
• You can also help local and independent media with readers and exposure. Its seen as more of an offline problem of media concentration, but i think theres online solutions for the surviving publications.

If you look through my history you'll see my posts to c/Perth/WesternAustralia there are ebbs and flows in interest but the key point is when something happens, say a protest, or a pub banning some nazis the community is there ready for the users, active and established.

If you go to the sidebar of that community, and all the communities i moderate i have gathered in each a host of resources for people to refer to for articles and information in regards each of those communities. It also helps me to have easy access to those publishers as i look for something i find interesting.

So i don't know what city or State you live in, but if theres a place based server, or a generalist server that hosts a community for it, i'd start posting there. If it looks abandoned maybe jump onto that servers c/meta and request to become the moderator. That'll give you the ability to change things like the sidebar and participate in managing misbehaviour if/when users post things off topic/against the rules for the community.

See you in fediverse ;)

Edit: oh, also posting is a piece of active fun, instead of waiting passivley for something to entertain you. So its fun in a different way to scrolling feeds, or commenting.

Sorting by scaled is pretty nice because its like active but with community size so its not only shitposts, memes and news (still a lot but its still a larger veriety)

You don't have to start your own community (lemmy's subreddit) if you feel it is too niche. Find or start a broder one where your niche content will fit. That way, your content has a home and more lemming will be attracted to it.

If you want to start your own community, you can only do it on your home instance: reddthat.com

It doesn't work well if it is not in the post itself. Here a community where you are free to test it as much as you want !testfediverse@jlai.lu