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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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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I do this for a few sublemmys like !nasa@lemmy.world and !esa@feddit.nl. I view it as keeping communities on "life support" until Lemmy grows a bit more.

One of the best practices I can think of is to cross-post a post with text in the body (important) from a small sublemmy to a large sublemmy. This creates a link to the original post on the smaller community, and gives it some visibility.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

Text in the body should be required.

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

Do you think it would make more sense to have just one umbrella "space" community, on maybe mander.xyz (which already has !astronomy@mander.xyz ), or even !space@lemmy.world ?