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I’ve diversified in raw community output across the past ~4-5 months, but also slowed way down on my own community the past month. A recent, very unpleasant posting experience in another community was sort of the catalyst for altering how I feel about the Fediverse, and I’m not sure what the future holds in terms of my outlook.
I guess the negative experience specifically cemented something that hadn’t bothered me so much before-- that there’s a lot of ‘tourism’ in the FV feeds, and only a certain amount of commenting, especially the more niche a community is. But much more serious (to my mind) is that one can put loads of work in to dozens of posts, and the tourists will evidently barely remember you. A few upvotes as thanks is cool and all, but it’s like you’re not a person to them but a content-creator. Furthermore, if you make an unpopular mistake in terms of content, they’ll turn on you like a pack of merciless wolves. This only happens rarely for me personally, but when it does it really does kill my motivation to contribute. As if most audiences here are a pack of juvenile, vulturous assholes, only wanting to take, rarely being willing to give or remember who fed them.
This would mostly be okay if I was getting paid, in which case generating product for consumption would be a perfectly acceptable concept. But this to me kind of gets to something that has bothered me about the FV for a long time-- that it seems like there’s a shockingly low amount of community spirit and willingness to help and support each other. Unlike Reddit, many of us run in to each other here frequently, and yet that doesn’t seem to be enough. Friendship and true community is pretty common IME on the now out-of-style webforums, but then there was a critical difference there-- the content there isn’t feed-oriented, but activity-oriented. People can keep a topic going for months on a webforums, and yet this feed-style format seems to promote a doom-scrolling, dopamine-oriented hunger to keep moving from topic to topic, rarely lingering. I can’t help but think that brings out some of the mindset and behaviors I was kvetching about above.
So yeah, I don’t know where things lead from here. I’m hanging on for my part, still invested, still posting a trickle to half-a-dozen communities, but something kind of broke for me. Some inherent level of trust, innocence and general goodwill about the ActivityPub and FV projects.
That said, I still greatly admire (and am amazed and a bit mystified by) the high-output posters here. Without them… foof. And of course, we recently lost one such legend (PugJesus) over a major quibble upon how PieFed works. It’s fucking sad, man.
You can cross-post your posts to established communities. I do it every time I post in my community and it allows my posts to actually get seen. After all, posting should be FUN.
A recent, very unpleasant posting experience in another community was sort of the catalyst for altering how I feel about the Fediverse, and I’m not sure what the future holds in terms of my outlook.
Block mean people and take a break from Fedi if you need to. Bad stuff happens from time to time and some people on Lemmy really deserve the block.
there’s a lot of ‘tourism’ in the FV feeds, and only a certain amount of commenting, especially the more niche a community is. But much more serious (to my mind) is that one can put loads of work in to dozens of posts, and the tourists will evidently barely remember you.
These ‘tourists’ are those who default to /all, I’d guess. For them, your posts are just a short distraction from doomscrolling. On the other hand, people who subscribe to communities probably never heard of your community as discoverability on Lemmy sucks.
Unlike Reddit, many of us run in to each other here frequently, and yet that doesn’t seem to be enough. Friendship and true community is pretty common IME on the now out-of-style webforums
A lot of users on here ignore user handles and even hide profile pictures from UI. I am not sure how common it is but given some mobile apps do it by default it should be common enough to influence the feeling of this place.
You can cross-post your posts to established communities. I do it every time I post in my community and it allows my posts to actually get seen.
My posts are seen pretty well because I’m going to specific communities to share their preferred content. In other words, I have a lot of different interests, so I basically custom-make posts for various places.
That said, I don’t really share posts from my own /c to other places, so that might be an idea. I do feel a little weird about it, because it kinda feels like I’d be spamming, but maybe that’s a feeling that would go away with time. I’ll think about it, tho!
For them, your posts are just a short distraction from doomscrolling.
Yeah, I think that’s right. And my guess is that a lot of people prefer to just view a lead picture or read a headline, get a small reaction from those things, and then keep scrolling. For them to actually open up the post and engage with what’s inside seems like it would take a much stronger reaction, hence it happens much less.
A lot of users on here ignore user handles and even hide profile pictures from UI. I am not sure how common it is but given some mobile apps do it by default it should be common enough to influence the feeling of this place.
Again, I think that’s pretty much it. Since I’m on desktop, I have this artificial bias that most people browse and see the Fediverse sort of like me, but in reality I think most users here access by mobile and have a much different UI experience.
And yeah, they rarely seem to really notice my name, my avatar, and my popup details for one reason or another. I’m always checking out other people’s info to try to better understand them, but increasingly I feel like I’m almost a weirdo in that, lol.
Finally got the !nolawns@slrpnk.net wiki to be identical to the Reddit wiki! Or, at least all the info is the same. I think the way it’s linked is a bit different but that has more to do with reddits limitations. My Reddit mod team and I are discussing an overhaul on the wiki so I’m sure I’ll have more work to do in the future 🤣
