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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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[–] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel having a balance between more popular and widely used communitys as well as smaller and nicher ones work pretty well for me, where I admin 3 rather popular and broad communitys and 3 small and very niche ones. That way it just feels like more is happening yknow?

I also can only recommend utilising a Post Schedueler and making 1-2 weeks worth of posts at a time! When you manually post daily, it does feel pretty lonely, but if you do all the work in a few hours for 2 weeks like I usually do, it really does feel less like shouting into a void since you aren't actively posting per say that way

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Balance is an interesting approach, I kind of have it too without realizing it.

The post scheduler can help, but in my case I like to see how the post is received in real time ha ha

[–] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

I mean, the posts are usually schedueled for the same time with 5 minutes apart. I always look forward to letting them all post and then looking over them all at once!