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?
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 enjoy it then do it. Don’t do with for an idea that you “should”. Don’t burn yourself out.
Absolutely. Thank you for all of your posts and this one.
It looks like you’ve made 61 posts in the last 24 hours. That’s a lot of content to provide!
If you’re enjoying it, then there’s no harm in carrying on. Well done, thank you!
But if you’re not enjoying it, then slow down. Stop posting or just post less frequently, whatever it takes to feel like you’re doing something you find worth doing. Otherwise, what’s the point?
But to your original questions, I don’t think you’re wasting your time and posting is definitely useful for the Fediverse ecosystem.
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.
I’d like to think that if anything I do makes someone’s day a bit better, it was not a waste of time
If you’re having fun, yes. If not, no. Do it for you. :)
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.
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 think David Mitchell puts it succinctly 👌
If you and others are enjoying themselves because of the content, why not?
If you’re creating content, that is definitely useful.
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.
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.
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.
