I like Lemmy. I really do.
In order to support the website, I have posted a shit-ton of original content.
Is what I’m doing actually useful? Or am I just wasting my time?
Yes keep at it, reddit wasn’t built in a day!
I was a really early Reddit user and Reddit was very much how Lemmy is now
Yeah, I’ve been here a while now, and Lemmy absolutely feels like old Reddit, before the bots and corporations took over.
Depends on what the meaning of life is
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Useful for what? To lure here more users? Mostly useless then because Lemmy almost isn’t indexed by web-crawlers. So all your “content” is visible only to those who already are here.
But it does keep people from leaving due to lack of content. And these people may bring more at some point. It depends on the actual content of course.
We have nowhere to leave, anyway. It is a dead end. We will die here.
Yep and if they stay they might tell others that join and so on
I like some of your posts, no need to feel discouraged.
Usefulness is probably not the right word, though-- haha.
I do think of it as better to put my stuff here, on a non-corporate forum, than somewhere else. Not sure it rises to the level of doing good or being useful, exactly. Maybe, as I personally find enjoyment on Lemmy, so perhaps I am providing the same to someone else.
No I don’t think you are wasting your time.
Every little part counts. We all form a community. Imagine if you’re in a room and nobody says anything. Now imagine if it’s a forum where a few people are chatting on something, that’s what makes it engaging.
Reddit wasn’t immediately known as the “front page of the Internet.” It took time to build up a reputation and tons of content before it started to get noticed and promoted by search engines.
Lemmy is the same. It’s small now, but with enough content, it will eventually become a reference point like Reddit. Every little bit counts.
It took time to build up a reputation
It also took Digg ruining itself.
The irony is that Digg has supposedly been working to absorb a lot of the Reddit refugees. Apparently if they’re not landing on Lemmy, they’re landing on Digg. It makes me wonder how many of the users have been around long enough to actually remember the Digg mass exodus to Reddit. I’m sure a lot of them are the newer users, who weren’t around for the Digg purge.
Digg is in the middle of some big “reboot” of the site, with Alex Onhanian on board. They’re in some invite-only preview for the last few months.
If you’re creating content, that is definitely useful.
If you and others are enjoying themselves because of the content, why not?
If you think something has worth (to you), everything is worthy.
Is it useful? Maybe for someone.
Assuming it got upvoted, I’d say yes :)I just scrolled through your post history. Many of your posts are items I have read and/or scrolled past absorbing the headline. These have kept me, and others I speak with, informed. So I would say, definitely, and please continue.
Plus, it’s much more likely you are reaching humans here.
If you’re having fun, yes. If not, no. Do it for you. :)
I’d like to think that if anything I do makes someone’s day a bit better, it was not a waste of time
I mean, everything holds on human (in a perfect world) interaction, so your contribution is not for nothing. However I can’t shake of the feeling that trying to be “useful” online is not a good idea.
In general, whatever you posted will most likely be noticed by at least one other person, whose thoughts will be influenced by whatever you posted. So I guess this is already useful in a way? We should continue thinking, otherwise we are just some kind of a biorobot.
