Okay, there’s a frustrating backstory that I won’t bore y’all with, but in this case, my Lemmy-mates have suggested that I should share image-content more slowly, rather than do roundups like this.
To explain: I personally hate withholding content when I have a load of some resource to share. I feel like a fraud, an a-hole, a userer, and all that stuff…
Yet I’ve been told repeatedly that it’s better to just (in my words, ‘act like a drone’) drip the content, and yes, it’s not hard to see the logistical point, but… bah.
I guess, end of the day, I always like to include something interesting about my posts, and it would be harder to do that via the “drip” posting method, which… pretty much circles back to why I post the way I do, which is to aim for roundups.
Bah… Baa-Ram-Ewe!
In terms of growing a community, I think it is usually better to ‘drip’ than to to ‘dump’. It gives more chances for a post to hit the top of
/all, and it keeps the community fresh in the minds of users.That being said, ‘dripping’ requires more work to space out the posts, and I don’t always practice what I preach…
I prefer the drip-feed as a regular user. Seeing a big influx of posts in one day from a community I follow tends to drown out other communities I follow, and feels intimidating. I’ve currently signed up to see bunnies, owls, foxes, and snakes. If I see mostly snakes at the expense of foxes, owls, and bunnies I’m not going to be too thrilled. (In practice, this doesn’t happen, !snakes@lemmy.world isn’t that active, if you like snakes please post! I do whenever I run across some pleasing snake content in my regular internet browsing, maybe I should put more effort into explicitly finding snake and fox stuff again…)
I am more willing to let it go if I followed some giant community with lots of subscribers, because what did I expect, a big community is going to have lots of people wanting to post stuff. But if it is a small niche…
As a poster trying to keep Lemmy active and as a mod, I find things in bursts. So I break them up with https://schedule.lemmings.world/. Post one thing right now, do all the rest on that scheduler so they come out a couple days from now. That way I still get to “post” all at once—just into the scheduler, which will actually submit the posts in a more spaced out manner for me.
Thanks for the reply, and oolala, that scheduler sounds groovy! Main concerns-- 1) as it needs my ID & PW to login, I’m naturally a bit wary. Do we know how safe this tool is?
- I almost always upload images when I post, and that’s led to major problems at this point. For example, Imgur has proved worse than useless in the long run, and some days my own instance (lemm.ee) simply won’t accept image uploads.
So I think I’d need to pre-upload my images somewhere else, but I haven’t found the right place just yet. I suppose I might test out Google Drive at some point, but the file-name system is ridiculous. Look at the link at the bottom of my post here: https://lemm.ee/post/53557900
Oh boy. Well at least you can always obscure it with
[text to click of a more reasonable length](the super long URL).
Anything like that for non-.world instances? I was banned from there a while ago and I prefer not to even go there now because it’s so toxic and censorship-heavy.
if you HATE the withholding, i say follow your instinct and stay true to yourself.
I get yelled at daily for dumping 4 posts at a time. I actually think it’s fine tho, and Lemmy is so small, we have to put content out there. Plus I’m doing at the times I’m on Lemmy.
I ain’t gonna hold back just because people are tired of seeing my name. They can block me.
