It seems like a lot of people don’t post or at least don’t post on smaller communities like [email protected]

  • hightrix@lemmy.world
    39·
    11 months ago

    1. People on the internet suck. No matter what, there will be someone that is upset with your words for some reason. This opens you up to harassment.

    2. I just don’t want to.

    3. I hesitated replying to this post because you are responding by redundantly @ing the user you are replying to. That is a mega pet peeve of mine and I hate it.

    Have a nice day!

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      11 months ago
      1. I think that happens if they’re commenting from a microblogging service, not a lemmy account.
    • SamXavia@kbin.runOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      Sorry it auto does the @ on my instance (I use Mbin btw). But yeah I know that some people are hateful, I guess it’s because people feel they can be more open without consequences often.

  • qooqie@lemmy.world
    31·
    11 months ago

    I don’t have anything interesting to post, but I do like promoting conversation!

  • broguy89@lemm.ee
    29·
    11 months ago

    Why do more people read books than write books? Why do more people eat than cook? It’s easier to consume than to produce.

    • SamXavia@kbin.runOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      @infreq Why does it have to be articles? I’ve read a few of them that are connected from people on Mbin but I like genuine people posting on smaller communities and things.

    • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 months ago

      We artists have been biding our time in hiding, building our numbers, preparing for the day we have the strength in numbers to overtrhow the gallery visitors and establish a fortress inside against the world. But don’t tell anyone. /s

  • forensic_potato@lemmy.world
    19·
    11 months ago

    “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

    I also often question whether the thing I’d like to post needs to be posted (and in the process, I talk myself out of it)

  • livus@kbin.social
    16·
    11 months ago

    There’s the 90/9/1 rule - out of every 100 people 1 provides content, 9 interact and the other 90 lurk.

    I created and post in a community, worldwithoutus but even after it got above 100 it’s usually just me posting.

      • SamXavia@kbin.runOP
        11·
        11 months ago

        @livus Lol yeah, it seems more people sit and maybe comment but there’s just so much room for people to talk about the topic and even do there own posts but I guess most people just want to look at it and not interact.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      this

      ^(example of the types of comments that don’t really contribute anything)

  • exussum@lemmy.world
    15·
    11 months ago

    I don’t know y’all, and when people interact, there’s no true community here. I’ll probably not remember most of your names, similar to reddit, digg, slashdot, etc etc…

    • LegionEris [she/her]@feddit.nl
      4·
      11 months ago

      That’s actually what I like about these sorts of communities. I recognize a few super posters and a few specific regulars from communities I frequent. (@[email protected] I want you to know that I think about you and you matter <3) But mostly I’m dealing with disembodied ideas and content. It’s a conversation with strangers who meet up to talk about certain subjects. We get little bits of each other in a vacuum. We have to address only that bit we’re given, because we don’t know each other.

      I use other social media for real community. Lemmy is for camaraderie. We meet to do something, not to just be.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    13·
    11 months ago

    Because I have nothing to share that I find important enough. I’d rather comment on something

  • helmet91@lemmy.world
    11·
    11 months ago

    I have nothing to share. Funny thing is, as an IT person, I’ve even built my own blog just to have one and share obstacles and solutions I find during my developer journey, and then, once I finished and published it, I was thinking “damn, now what should I post about?” My blog is almost empty ever since then. So… yeah. As for me, I have absolutely nothing to share and I’ve made the extra mile to not share anything.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    I have a feeling that the results of this question are going to be biased against those who don’t post answers.