Also, if you do comment why don’t you not comment?
Half-jokes aside, I post as I post 'cause I don’t see the questions/answers on Lemmy on a light search, albeit I may see them on Reddit or elsewhere, and want folks to be able to find responses/answers to similar questions here. Besides that I also like asking questions for more current responses than others that may be outdated or otherwise benefit from some current perspectives.
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 would really like to foster a sense of community in the communities I’m active in. Mostly I try doing this by encouraging others to post, reference to other users by name like “nice to see you back, user” or, “you should ask user, they know more about this kind of thing”.
Referring to others by name does make a community seem more like a connected whole. At least in my opinion.
It’s nice to be recognized as a person and not just another comment.
That’s actually what I like about these sorts of communities. I recognize a few super posters and a few specific regulars from communities I frequent. (@skymtf I want you to know that I think about you and you matter <3) But mostly I’m dealing with disembodied ideas and content. It’s a conversation with strangers who meet up to talk about certain subjects. We get little bits of each other in a vacuum. We have to address only that bit we’re given, because we don’t know each other.
I use other social media for real community. Lemmy is for camaraderie. We meet to do something, not to just be.
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.
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.
I just don’t want to.
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.
Sorry it auto does the @ on my instance (I use Mbin btw). But yeah I know that some people are hateful, I guess it's because people feel they can be more open without consequences often.
If the community is too small, there’s little to no response to what I want to say.
Just like getting buried in too many similar comments doesn’t make an interaction, being the only comment with no reply or making a post with no discussion underneath also doesn’t make an interaction.
@livus Lol yeah, it seems more people sit and maybe comment but there's just so much room for people to talk about the topic and even do there own posts but I guess most people just want to look at it and not interact.
@SamXavia I think this is something about the fediverse though - in the old, centralised media we were often relatively passively consuming content spoonfed to us by alorithms. Here in the fediverse, it pays to be more active in building and finding content.
It's a bit of an adjustment in mindset and we're all in various stages of that.
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