I have no idea where to post anything

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

It’s kinda hard to get a feel for which community you should post somethings in. I’d say this is particularly true of discussion topics/text posts (that end up never posted). Anyone else or Is it just a me problem? If not, what could be done about it?

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Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
!actual_discussion@lemmy.ca

If it’s not topic specific, try this one?

I get it, even with link posts and memes sometimes I’m not sure if I’m posting it in the right places, or if I have to trade off potential traction with how closely related it is.

A solution I’ve employed sometimes is to post to two spots:

first in the niche community where it feels a best fit, even if it shows like 12 subscribers…

then crosspost to a more popular one for visibility with a link in body text to the other one, to help other people discover the niche community.

That way you don’t feel forced to only participate in the popular instances and communities.

E.g. !boardgames@sopuli.xyz then !games@lemmy.world

E.g.2: !vancouver@lemmy.ca then !canada@lemmy.ca

E.g.3: !rant@lemmy.sdf.org then !offmychest@lemmy.world
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- TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thanks for the suggestions, that seems like a strategy with many positives for Lemmy in general and smaller communities in particular.
  
  That way you don’t feel forced to only participate in the popular instances and communities.
  
  I feel very seen by this reply because I think this is at the heart of it for me.
  
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- supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Combo!
  
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pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Check out !lemmy411@lemmy.ca - you can make a post asking about what kind of content or discussions you’re looking for and people may be able to point you in the right direction.

Some discussion communities I follow that aren’t about a specific topic:

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

!asklemmy@lemmy.world

!showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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fujiwood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There’s always !justpost@lemmy.world as the last resort.

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- TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Nice one, I did not know about that community
  
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
yeah it’s difficult to choose. just post wherever you feel like it and call it done :) that’s what i do.

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ambitiousslab@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I get you. I can never think of anything that would be interesting to post or ask in the more discussion-oriented communities, let alone choose a specific one to post in. I definitely find comments easier, as well as posting to more niche communities. I feel the scope is usually better defined there.

Would you say it’s about not knowing if your post would be accepted in the community, or just finding the best place for it? If it’s the latter, AskLemmy could be good for general questions, or failing that, any of the casual chat communities such as !chat@beehaw.org.

As long as your post meets the rules of the community/instance, I feel it’s better to post somewhere than not at all - people can always crosspost it elsewhere if they like.

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- TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  I get you. I can never think of anything that would be interesting to post or ask in the more discussion-oriented communities, let alone choose a specific one to post in. I definitely find comments easier, as well as posting to more niche communities. I feel the scope is usually better defined there.
  
  I tend to feel the same way (and by no means am I saying the world is missing out on my would be posts). It’s easier to join a discussion that’s already going or go off a prompt. What really started this train of thought is that I felt that what I wanted to discuss became too off-topic to the thread that prompted it.
  
  Would you say it’s about not knowing if your post would be accepted in the community, or just finding the best place for it? If it’s the latter, AskLemmy could be good for general questions, or failing that, any of the casual chat communities such as !chat@beehaw.org.
  
  Thank you for those tips. I’m sure this problem could be broken down in to many parts, I think the base task of identifying where a post will meet the format requirement would be the first threshold – and I think that’s often hard. Then there’s the whole thing of getting the whole vibe of a community, etc.
  
  As long as your post meets the rules of the community/instance, I feel it’s better to post somewhere than not at all - people can always crosspost it elsewhere if they like.
  
  I support this sentiment, it’s sensible for growing the platform.
  
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5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What is a reasonable amount of activity in your context?

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- planish@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I’ll chime in that posting to a community with about 12 subscribers is not very fun. But then that’s why we have vigorous cross-posting.
  
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- TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Hard to say exactly, say that an average post has ≥5 total comments from ≥3 unique users? That would be enough to say that posting isn’t shouting into the void
  
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6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
We used to say RTFM or Lurk more in the good old days.

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- TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, fair enough, but in the good old days boards used to have clear structures for topics, off topic sections etc. Lemmy is a bit messy at times…
  
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  - frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Lemmy is equally well structured by topics! An instance is the equivalent of a board, a community is the equivalent of the forum, a post is the equivalent of a thread/topic.
    
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cibbecker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Did you already find communities that match your interests well, in general? Or are you missing only specific kinds of communities? I was kind of lost at discovering what’s out there at first, now with a set of nice communities, it’s much earer.

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- TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I have found many communities to subscribe to, but I can’t say I have gotten into visiting them individually a lot. By default, my instance’s stock front-end loads the top posts from all communities on all federated instances, and that’s mainly how I’ve been getting into the action.
  
  Of course, I want to promote growth and activity in smaller communities, but there are also a lot of those minuscule ones that get drowned out on your front page if you don’t make the rounds and visit each.
  
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