Ask Lemmy

I don’t have anything important to say, what do you want from me? :P

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!

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

How many newspaper articles have you read vs written?

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

Why are more visitors than artists going to the galleries?

Most of the time it's because I have nothing worth sharing.

"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)

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.

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

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...

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.

I post when I have something to say. I don't post/comment for its own sake.

Shy

People hate my opinions.

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

I posted for a while, but the responses were all kind of the same. There isn't a lot of variety here: we mostly have the same viewpoint and we aren't great at discussion.

I have posted a few times and almost every time someone complains that the link I posted was already posted by someone else.

Like, sorry, I didn’t see it and I’m not going to spend 15 minutes researching whether an article was already posted here.

So, it’s mainly that.

Maybe there are less bots here. And people who dont have anything to sharr lurk.

Also, if you do post why don’t you not post?

I would love to but then I'd have to restrain myself from not permanently rolling my eyes to the back of my head with some of the replies. I speak from experience elsewhere.

I don't like being drown out by other comment, I don't like repeating what's already been said.

neurodivergence takes the wheel.

Because I prefer to create. I like to make YouTube videos, downloadable audio clips of my journaling, etc.

This is going into a rant but it will come back to the point.

There is a visceral hatred for small creators for some reason and there almost always has been since 2000ish. It always comes with this sinister idea that you're only doing it to make money. Meanwhile anybody that has made art/content realizes making it large is like getting into a professional sports team - we can all play for the love and impossible dream but we're never going to make a penny, in fact it's going to cost us far more to create the content than we will ever see returned.

If you are tiny and you post your own efforts, apparently you're spamming your channel for that fat payday. My channel with 800 subscribers, daily videos, and a million views didn't pay for my microphone.

But if you're a big site that probably doesn't need the exposure as much as the smaller would appreciate, that's fine for people to post.

We're living in the beginning of the post-social media world, I lived in the BBS days so I've seen a lot. I really think it's time to intentionally go back to small forums, small content creators, hobbyists, and fuck the big boys already. They have carried their nonsense as far as they can go and it's just not going to work anymore especially with the rise of AI trash content.

But to the answer the question, it's disheartening, and a bit of a waste of time to try to post your own content and that's all I'm really interested in posting. It's too exhausting being beaten down continually and criticized just for wanting to add something to the world and share.

Hi. What's up.

I'm on Artemis on Android. It doesn't appear to be possible.

When it is I might share my goat videos. In the mean time, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCucYNmlqU-O1npt002LXVTA

Is there anything about your question that is specific to Lemmy? If you're just asking in general then I think it's been answered long ago and a web search would give you more than enough information.