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. :)
I do this a lot but in different communities to you. In the bigger communities your post can get lost in the feed, smaller ones they may just not be seen by many. You could try more mid range communities. You like politics and news, so you could try !politicalmemes@lemmy.world where you’ll get more interaction. You could also mix it up with !goodnewseveryone@sh.itjust.works where people just upvote and posts don’t require interaction.
I’ve found if you post in the right places people start chatting and it’s really fun!
That linked “good news” page has a header saying “Only mods can create threads in this magazine”. Or at least that’s what it says on the instance I’m on
Thanks mate edited it to the right one
Well that’s good news!
Haha I see what you did there
Yes, absolutely it’s useful. Good quality posts that people see is always a useful thing
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.
Yep and if they stay they might tell others that join and so on
We have nowhere to leave, anyway. It is a dead end. We will die here.
Well, what are you expecting, in return? Are people not replying/reacting to your posts? Maybe you’re posting in the wrong community. Really, what are you wanting to see that you’re not seeing?
Yes, people come to Lemmy to look at content and then discuss it, if we don’t have content then there’s no discussion.
If people don’t like what you’re posting, they’ll let you know through votes on the posts
I think the main thing here is original content.
It’s easy to just go to Reddit, find an equivalent community, then copy paste some tending posts… Although I guess it’s nice for people here if they never knew what’s on the other side anyways, creating original content is inherently much more powerful
Really depends on what you mean by useful. Looking briefly through your post history, it seems like a lot of your posts are news / politics. Are you hoping to use lemmy to educate and change people’s perspectives? Because that’s quite a different purpose than entertain and distract, or express an inner artistic vision, or grow the fediverse, and so on.
If you can explain what you seek from posting, we can get a better idea of whether it’s working or not!
