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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 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 [email protected] recently just because at least my posts are widely seen, and other people post there as well.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

voting on stuff but otherwise not commenting either for lack of anything to add

I see myself in this comment and I don't like it. It's hard to make the first comment though. Any suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

What you did at the end can be a good approach tbh. Be curious and ask something about the post, or something in it that you're not sure of or familiar with, or if the OP hasn't added any body text or indications in the title and simply posted, what their opinion on it is, or if it's like a show/story/site/product, what's the premise or what's up with it and what they like about it.

Also if you don't want to focus it on the OP, in the absence of other comments, you can say as much like, "Do you (including anyone else reading) know/think [somethingsomething here]?"