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

submitted 6 months ago by Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months 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

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I imagine there are similar stories for other communities as well which ends up with a bunch of fragmentation.

We narrowly avoided fragmentation with !lemmyapps@lemmy.world and !lemmyapps@sh.itjust.works. Some amount of consolidation is definitely a good thing especially since Lemmy's userbase is still small.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

That was another shitshow, probably the worst I've ever seen on Lemmy

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dang, this sucks. I usually post news rather than open discussions so I never noticed. I had my own disagreements with lemm.ee admin back in the day which is why I'm on sopuli.xyz among some other things.

I do wonder if going with movies community on an instance that has more broad one already is too much of a handicap. Something like beehaws's c/entertainment could work if parked at some instance that's federated well enough.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Open discussions are always the hardest things to get comments and actual conversations in the comments, except maybe in the AskLemmy community where it works well.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I do wonder if going with movies community on an instance that has more broad one already is too much of a handicap

It might be, I just posted on !movies@lemmy.world (not wanting to get another account banned on !moviesandtv@lemm.ee ), we'll see how it goes

I don't think that's much of an issue to be honest, and even if it is, having a "large" audience able to see it from their local feed should outweigh the con.