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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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My guy, I added my two cents about the topic. Maybe keep your fragility in check and don't feel attacked by everything.
Lol okay dude, sure, my fragility. I run a server for myself and a few others, I pay out of pocket for it, we here don't owe you anything.
Which I see that you comment a lot, which is great, it seems like you enjoy it here. Sure I'd like to see more posts, so I post a lot, and that drives up engagement. I've nurtured a few little communities that have grown steadily since I started them, but you don't just get that from being upset that there's not enough content. If you want more communities/posts around topics, then here you need to be the one post the stuff about it. So why so resistant to posting?
It's honestly easy, it was a mental block for me at first but it's just if you see an article/story about a topic you like, just post it to a community that applies. I started posting youtube vids that I thought were interesting. If there's not a community for your topic work with your admins to create one.
You're absolutely right that we're tiny, we don't have a critical mass - which is why I tell anyone who complains that there isn't enough content that we don't have the luxury of lurking here. If you want to be a part of building this platform then do your part. If you don't want to help build it, then at least for god's sake don't just complain here that there's not enough content to admins who run their servers for free when you can't even be bothered to post. So I guess that's probably what you're picking up on.
So it's not fragility - it's frustration. Frustration that we have devs who built these platforms (for mostly free), and admins who pay out of pocket to run them, and in result we get users who are upset they might need to just occasionally post to help keep engagment up. I mean, what more do you want from us? I pay monthly to keep my servers up, fedia I'm sure pays hundreds a month, Lemmy.World here probably into the thousands, and people want to complain that they just want to lurk and that we don't provide enough content. Well, then start posting!
Thanks for proving my point with this triggered entitled ranting text wall. You doing what you do does not mean I owe you anything, not in form of feeling obligated to submit things, and I even less so have to take stupid insults from you about getting upset for you not working hard enough for me. If that's the type of shit you make up in your head about the users within the fediverse then please, stop contributing. You're like all those power tripping mod abusers who feel so entitled about it that they expect a "thank you" for ignoring disinformation and ruling over comments in a hypocritical manner. We've had this type of shit on Reddit already, we sure as hell don't need it here.
There, that's how I react when I'm actually upset. You're welcome.
Dude, okay I'm done. I didn't even insult you, in fact I rewrote that "wall of text" multiple times to try to explain my opinion as neutrally as I could. I've tried in honest faith to try to explain my point of view to you multiple times, and I don't know how else to explain it.