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

submitted 1 year ago by Blaze to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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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 !pics@lemmy.world recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.

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[-] LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I think part of the issue is there's multiple communities on different instances for the same topic. I'm subscribed to like 4 different movie communities. If we all just stuck to one, maybe there would be better engagement?

[-] Blaze 7 points 1 year ago

That's interesting, because I can exactly tell you why there are so many movies communities

!movies@lemmy.world got created but is pretty much unmanaged. People on LW just post there out of habit, or because they support LW
there was historically a moviesandtv on an instance called lemmy.film. It was getting some traction, but then the instance disappeared
to keep another instance out of LW, people (including me) got involved into !moviesandtv@lemm.ee. It was going well, but at some point I suggested to have discussion threads for current movies, and to engage more with the community. The mod found that "backseat moderating" and banned me. The details can be found in the spoilers in the OP here: https://lemmy.world/post/11446250?scrollToComments=true
I thus took over !movies@lemm.ee, to kind of have that space to discuss movies.

I think we might consider posting to !movies@lemmy.world to promote the two others on Lemm.ee. I actually did that 2 months ago to talk about the Dune discussion thread we had on !movies@lemm.ee: https://lemmy.world/post/12820343?scrollToComments=true

18 upvotes, no comments, and that's it. I guess a few people went there, but I'm not sure.

[-] LittleTarsier@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Well, that's ridiculous! I imagine there are similar stories for other communities as well which ends up with a bunch of fragmentation.

[-] Blaze 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with you.

I even escalated the "power tripping" of the mod of !moviesandtv@lemm.ee at the time to the admin instance, but their stance was that they didn't want to interfere with the moderation of communities, as that would be themselves powertripping.

I'm going to post to the LW community to advertise !movies@lemm.ee at least