I like Lemmy. I really do.
In order to support the website, I have posted a shit-ton of original content.
Is what I’m doing actually useful? Or am I just wasting my time?
Absolutely.
This place is nothing without users. It’s why useful idiots are so attached to corporate social media.
Yes, people come to Lemmy to look at content and then discuss it, if we don’t have content then there’s no discussion.
If people don’t like what you’re posting, they’ll let you know through votes on the posts
I think the main thing here is original content.
It’s easy to just go to Reddit, find an equivalent community, then copy paste some tending posts… Although I guess it’s nice for people here if they never knew what’s on the other side anyways, creating original content is inherently much more powerful
It’s easy to just go to Reddit, find an equivalent community,
As easy as that sounds, I only sometimes do it for the -moe comms. I dont do wholesale copying just that posts that I want to share from reddit when I sometimes browse there. There are still things I care to look at that’s still not here, and I don’t have the wherewithal to do it myself as original content.
Yes.
Without posts, what’s the point of a forum?
If you enjoy it then do it. Don’t do with for an idea that you “should”. Don’t burn yourself out.
I just scrolled through your post history. Many of your posts are items I have read and/or scrolled past absorbing the headline. These have kept me, and others I speak with, informed. So I would say, definitely, and please continue.
Plus, it’s much more likely you are reaching humans here.
Absolutely. Thank you for all of your posts and this one.
I do this a lot but in different communities to you. In the bigger communities your post can get lost in the feed, smaller ones they may just not be seen by many. You could try more mid range communities. You like politics and news, so you could try !politicalmemes@lemmy.world where you’ll get more interaction. You could also mix it up with !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social where people just upvote and posts don’t require interaction.
I’ve found if you post in the right places people start chatting and it’s really fun!
That linked “good news” page has a header saying “Only mods can create threads in this magazine”. Or at least that’s what it says on the instance I’m on
Thanks mate edited it to the right one
Well that’s good news!
Haha I see what you did there
Reddit wasn’t immediately known as the “front page of the Internet.” It took time to build up a reputation and tons of content before it started to get noticed and promoted by search engines.
Lemmy is the same. It’s small now, but with enough content, it will eventually become a reference point like Reddit. Every little bit counts.
It took time to build up a reputation
It also took Digg ruining itself.
The irony is that Digg has supposedly been working to absorb a lot of the Reddit refugees. Apparently if they’re not landing on Lemmy, they’re landing on Digg. It makes me wonder how many of the users have been around long enough to actually remember the Digg mass exodus to Reddit. I’m sure a lot of them are the newer users, who weren’t around for the Digg purge.
Digg is in the middle of some big “reboot” of the site, with Alex Onhanian on board. They’re in some invite-only preview for the last few months.
It looks like you’ve made 61 posts in the last 24 hours. That’s a lot of content to provide!
If you’re enjoying it, then there’s no harm in carrying on. Well done, thank you!
But if you’re not enjoying it, then slow down. Stop posting or just post less frequently, whatever it takes to feel like you’re doing something you find worth doing. Otherwise, what’s the point?
But to your original questions, I don’t think you’re wasting your time and posting is definitely useful for the Fediverse ecosystem.
I’d like to think that if anything I do makes someone’s day a bit better, it was not a waste of time
If you and others are enjoying themselves because of the content, why not?
If you’re having fun, yes. If not, no. Do it for you. :)
Yes, absolutely it’s useful. Good quality posts that people see is always a useful thing
I do think of it as better to put my stuff here, on a non-corporate forum, than somewhere else. Not sure it rises to the level of doing good or being useful, exactly. Maybe, as I personally find enjoyment on Lemmy, so perhaps I am providing the same to someone else.
No I don’t think you are wasting your time.
Really depends on what you mean by useful. Looking briefly through your post history, it seems like a lot of your posts are news / politics. Are you hoping to use lemmy to educate and change people’s perspectives? Because that’s quite a different purpose than entertain and distract, or express an inner artistic vision, or grow the fediverse, and so on.
If you can explain what you seek from posting, we can get a better idea of whether it’s working or not!
