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!

  • Universal Monk@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    9·
    6 hours ago

    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…

  • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    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.

    • Universal Monk@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      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.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    I think most people’s solution is to use some kind of scheduling tool to rate-limit the drip as individual posts. I guess the argument is that since Lemmy is small enough, those who browse by new get overwhelmed by back-to-back posts to the same community.