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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[-] ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Part of the problem may be lack of tagging and filtering tools.

For example:

I'm not interested in memes so if a community is largely filled with them, my only way to avoid them may be to block the community. This includes communities that I might otherwise subscribe to, or want to engage with.

This is also tied into community fragmentation, community discoverability, and feeling the need to browse All to see anything. I don't know how widespread my issue is, but I have seen others mentioning having extensive block lists of communities.