I never intended to be a poster, I’m normally moderately social at best, but the community was more important to me than maintaining my comfort zone was. When I was posting 1 or 2, I’d more actively go out into other communities to comment to try to get them active as well, but now I kinda get stuck enjoying the goings on at Superb Owl and I can sometimes forget about the other people trying to build their stuff. I don’t know how people like Blaze with all these communities manage it all! The mega posters I assume just have a lot of time and like attention, but the actual work part of building the Fed is something else I feel.
Lol it’s still work. As much of my stuff is largely reposts with some repacking and expansion, I know.
You maintain a ton of dialog with people too. You’ve definitely got something going on that isn’t part of the majority of people here, and we’re all grateful for that!
I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
Ugh, US politics right now is trash if you’re an American, I can only imagine how old it has gotten for those who aren’t. It’s not like near every other country is going through equal drama of their own right now. My FOMO finally lost out, and I feel it’s a total improvement. Like I said, it’s not like I won’t hear something truly important from a million other places. I don’t need to hear about every bit of brain diarrhea these people have for the next however many years. If they actually start doing anything, wake me up then. The opposition is too busy infighting to slow anything down much anyway. If you live in a place where you’ve still got a chance to stop things before it’s too late, I wish you luck!
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I never intended to be a poster, I’m normally moderately social at best, but the community was more important to me than maintaining my comfort zone was. When I was posting 1 or 2, I’d more actively go out into other communities to comment to try to get them active as well, but now I kinda get stuck enjoying the goings on at Superb Owl and I can sometimes forget about the other people trying to build their stuff. I don’t know how people like Blaze with all these communities manage it all! The mega posters I assume just have a lot of time and like attention, but the actual work part of building the Fed is something else I feel.
I usually just repost good content from Reddit. That’s the trick, there’s no magic behind it 😅
Lol it’s still work. As much of my stuff is largely reposts with some repacking and expansion, I know.
You maintain a ton of dialog with people too. You’ve definitely got something going on that isn’t part of the majority of people here, and we’re all grateful for that!
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I think you’re still an early adopter. Instances are still growing, there’s still new communities every day, and I still think we’re forming our identity as a media platform. We’re getting pretty far from Lemmy’s founding focused on communism, and becoming something diverse and unique. A lot of the copies of well established groups may be taken already, but they’re not all so big a better version couldn’t overtake them, and with federation it doesn’t need to totally replace it, they can compliment each other. It’s a different model of doing things and we’re still learning to play to its strengths and weaknesses.
People are hearing about Bluesky in the news now, but I’ve yet to encounter and real life folk who have heard of Lemmy. That still makes it the uncharted waters of the internet to me!
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I’ve never felt drawn to the Twitter model of social media. I’ve been staying away from the more large volume communities for similar reasons, and last month I added a bunch of keyword blocks for things like Trump/Elon/RKF and my feed has been much improved. I already know anything about them will just be bad, and if anything actually serious goes on, I’ll hear about it from any of the multitude of mainstream news sources. I don’t need Lemmy filled with it all too. I keep this place for fun.
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Ugh, US politics right now is trash if you’re an American, I can only imagine how old it has gotten for those who aren’t. It’s not like near every other country is going through equal drama of their own right now. My FOMO finally lost out, and I feel it’s a total improvement. Like I said, it’s not like I won’t hear something truly important from a million other places. I don’t need to hear about every bit of brain diarrhea these people have for the next however many years. If they actually start doing anything, wake me up then. The opposition is too busy infighting to slow anything down much anyway. If you live in a place where you’ve still got a chance to stop things before it’s too late, I wish you luck!
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