I have no idea where to post anything
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I added a little context to the main post just to bring a clear example of what inspired this post. But I would also say that I don't really know of any real catch all community that's populated, text focused and "catch all".
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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 more clear where to post.
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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We used to say RTFM or Lurk more in the good old days.
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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!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 !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
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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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?
Edit 1:
For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there's a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.I would recommend !politics@lemmy.world or one of the anarchist discussion communities such as !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com or !soulism@multiverse.soulism.net
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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?
Edit 1:
For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there's a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.For what you're describing in your edit:
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
and maybe
!military@lemmy.world
Just searching across instances for the most general keywords of what you want to post. In this case: "military", "politic", "relations" and reading the rules/description of the communities.
Also, I'd say it's pretty healthy for lemmy to post in communities without much/any activity yet. You'd be one of the first/few to breath life into them to grow.
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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?
Edit 1:
For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there's a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.The feature to move posts between communities is planned and also AFAIK Piefed's feature of bundling together comments across all cross-posts is also coming to Lemmy sometime. Those, I think, could ease your worries a bit
But apart from that, my 2¢: save your markdown and "just do it" - unironically. It is true that many bad posts get deleted. But if you are coming with a real thought to discuss
- it's probable it won't be deleted even if it bends some community rules
- even if it does get deleted from a community, that does not put you in the same bag as those offenders
IMO, being absolutely-fucking-right-all-the-time-where-to-post is not a prerequisite to being here. After all (IMO) we are all here just people, we are all here just to connect, not perfectly sort posts into communities. The way threadiverse is, the communities are and will be and (IMO) should be in constant flux. With time, or rather posts, you will start to get the unwritten feel of communities. What gets downvoted where, what gets more reaction where, etc. But there is no way not even to know it beforehand, there is no way to codify it.
Also, on a more philosophical note, when you are interacting with a community, you are taking part in defining it. ATM you might be a small drop in the ocean, or the first signal of change. Maybe it needs to get more thoughts than links? Or maybe the discussants need to split off into another community? Neither you nor me, nor current community posters know that. Time will tell, communities will flux
Let the thought flow
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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..
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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!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 !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
I love the cross posting feature. It's helpful to spread the love
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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.
I have to disagree with you here. Nominally, what you're saying is kinda true, but the old school boards I'm thinking of would have a directory like structure with (usually) clear labels and with little overlap -- most of the time having a shared theme for the entire message board. Notably, these boards were not federated with multiple versions of each branch of the structure living side by side. In terms of "what goes where", even very broad scope traditionalist message boards were/are a lot easier to follow. That doesn't mean your're wrong that one has to learn to understand the platform as it is, it's a fair point.
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I personally look at feeds like: https://piefed.social/feeds
when im looking at general topics. For example:
Makes it easy to say, go down a step and find ALL fediverse related communities.
I think
feedsare only available on piefed instances -
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?
Edit 1:
For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there's a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.What is a reasonable amount of activity in your context?
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What is a reasonable amount of activity in your context?
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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Oh right...forgot. woops
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For what you're describing in your edit:
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
and maybe
!military@lemmy.world
Just searching across instances for the most general keywords of what you want to post. In this case: "military", "politic", "relations" and reading the rules/description of the communities.
Also, I'd say it's pretty healthy for lemmy to post in communities without much/any activity yet. You'd be one of the first/few to breath life into them to grow.
FYI if you format the community links like !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world it will link people to the community on their own instance.
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FYI if you format the community links like !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world it will link people to the community on their own instance.
I've been trying to get that to work before posting but failed. I get it now. Thank you!
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The feature to move posts between communities is planned and also AFAIK Piefed's feature of bundling together comments across all cross-posts is also coming to Lemmy sometime. Those, I think, could ease your worries a bit
But apart from that, my 2¢: save your markdown and "just do it" - unironically. It is true that many bad posts get deleted. But if you are coming with a real thought to discuss
- it's probable it won't be deleted even if it bends some community rules
- even if it does get deleted from a community, that does not put you in the same bag as those offenders
IMO, being absolutely-fucking-right-all-the-time-where-to-post is not a prerequisite to being here. After all (IMO) we are all here just people, we are all here just to connect, not perfectly sort posts into communities. The way threadiverse is, the communities are and will be and (IMO) should be in constant flux. With time, or rather posts, you will start to get the unwritten feel of communities. What gets downvoted where, what gets more reaction where, etc. But there is no way not even to know it beforehand, there is no way to codify it.
Also, on a more philosophical note, when you are interacting with a community, you are taking part in defining it. ATM you might be a small drop in the ocean, or the first signal of change. Maybe it needs to get more thoughts than links? Or maybe the discussants need to split off into another community? Neither you nor me, nor current community posters know that. Time will tell, communities will flux
Let the thought flow
The feature to move posts between communities is planned
It's now available on Piefed !piefed_meta@piefed.social
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What is a reasonable amount of activity in your context?
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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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?
Edit 1:
For context {not the subject intended for discussion in this thread], to further the thread, I wanted to add to the current discussion, (mostly) in news threads about the potential military conflict between the US and Nato over Greenland. In my perception, a common thought in these threads is that no rational country or military would defend itself against the overwhelming power of the US, despite numerous countries and insurgencies have fought against the US at a terrible disadvantage. A post of this could have taken many forms, e.g. a list of wiki articles to conflicts, a meme, an open ended question/discussion text post. But finding a place to post any possible iteration of such a post in a Lemmy community where there's a reasonable amount of activity would take going over a large amount of community rules, etc.There's always !justpost@lemmy.world as the last resort.
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There's always !justpost@lemmy.world as the last resort.
Nice one, I did not know about that community
